Manager - Electrical commodity lead
River
Other Engineering
Hoskote, Karnataka, India
Posted on Jul 2, 2025
About River
River is an electric vehicle company building multi-utility scooters. At River, we’re building scooters of tomorrow for the ambitious youth of today. Because we believe people only need two things to achieve success: the desire to make it to the top, and the means to get there.
With our flagship product River Indie, SUVofScooters, is designed to help you get things done. Engineered to be a dependable ally on your road to success. We are backed by marquee international investors - these are mobility focused funds backed by Yamaha Motors, Al-Futtaim Automotive Group, Toyota VC and Maniv Mobility.
Key responsibilities
- Team Lead, people manager, accountable for team performance in procurement
- Responsible to conduct daily, weekly and monthly review on Material availability
- Purchasing all kind of parts like Wiring harness, Display, Lighting, Motor, DC-DC & BMS parts from domestic/Import vendors
- Planning and control towards no premium freight
- To ensure suppliers capacity and capability to meet production demand
- Review the critical supplier and drive preventive action plan
- To drive improvements in Various aspect of the supply chain-OTD, Inventory management, lead time reduction and cost saving
- Work with quality team to continue improve the supplier quality performance
- Handling ECN changes, BOM changes, coordination with design team and engineering team
- Preparing the MIS report and analysis to the management
- Ensures compliance's, safety standard and sustainability with company
Ideal Candidate
- Bachelor's/Master’s degree in engineering or Supply chain Management is preferred.
- 10-12 years of strong experience in supply chain
- Has extensive experience interfacing with strategic suppliers and managing relationships
- SAP knowledge is mandatory
- Excellent communication skills and people skills