About the Role
We are looking for a strategic procurement leader to drive sourcing, commercial strategy, and vendor ecosystem management for Paytm's rapidly growing device business across Soundbox and POS/EDC ecosystems.
This role sits at the intersection of supply strategy, commercial leadership, manufacturing partnerships, and hardware quality governance. The mandate is to build a resilient, scalable, and cost-efficient procurement ecosystem spanning domestic manufacturing partners, component suppliers, and global OEMs.
Ideal for candidates from consulting, consumer tech, electronics, telecom, ecommerce, or premier B-schools with strong experience in strategic sourcing, supply ecosystems, and large-scale vendor management.
Key Responsibilities
- Drive procurement and sourcing strategy across Soundbox and POS/EDC device ecosystems.
- Lead strategic partnerships with domestic manufacturers, component vendors, and global OEMs.
- Drive commercial negotiations, cost transformation, supply continuity, and vendor governance initiatives.
- Build scalable sourcing frameworks, alternate vendor strategies, and supply-risk mitigation models.
- Partner with product, engineering, operations, and finance teams to improve device quality, reliability, and lifecycle economics.
- Lead procurement planning aligned with business growth forecasts and deployment scale-up plans.
- Leverage analytics and operational rigor to improve procurement efficiency, inventory optimization, and capex utilization.
Ideal Candidate
- 8 - 12 years of experience across procurement, strategic sourcing, supply chain, consulting, electronics, telecom, consumer tech, or manufacturing ecosystems.
- Strong commercial acumen, negotiation capability, and stakeholder management skills.
- Experience managing complex domestic and international vendor ecosystems preferred.
- Exposure to electronics manufacturing, hardware sourcing, or OEM management is a strong advantage.
- MBA from a premier B-school preferred.
Why This Role
- Opportunity to build and scale one of India's largest merchant device procurement ecosystems.
- High-impact role driving supply strategy, commercial efficiency, and operational scalability.
- Blend of strategy, analytics, vendor leadership, and business transformation.
- Fast-paced environment with strong ownership, visibility, and growth opportunities.
