Head - Supply Chain Management

Position Specification: Head – Supply Chain Management

Position Overview

Attribute Details :

Title : Head – Supply Chain Management

DepartmentL Supply Chain & Materials Management

Reporting To: Chief Executive Officer (CEO)

LocationPune (Corporate Office) / Ranjangaon (Works / Manufacturing Plant)

Compensation: 35.00 – 40.00 Lakhs Per Annum (CTC)

Team Direct Reports: Leads across Strategic Sourcing, Logistics & Distribution, Plant Warehousing, and Demand PlanningAbout the Company

About The Company

We are a leading global manufacturer and provider of high-performance specialty chemicals and industrial resins, delivering mission-critical material solutions across global markets:

• Foundry Solutions: Advanced foundry consumables portfolio, including engineered binders, high-performance coatings, riser systems, and auxiliary process inputs.
• Industrial Resins: Specialty phenolic and alkyd resin formulations serving high-stress applications across abrasives, industrial coatings, advanced composites, friction materials, impregnation, insulation, refractories, and engineered wood.
  
  

Supported by state-of-the-art R&D centers across multiple continents, advanced production facilities, and an international distribution framework, we drive technological performance and sustainable process chemistry. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer dedicated to building a high-performance, diverse, and collaborative workplace.

Role Purpose

To provide executive leadership over the end-to-end supply chain ecosystem. The Head of SCM will architect and execute resilient, cost-optimized sourcing, materials management, and hazardous logistics frameworks to guarantee 100% manufacturing uptime, optimize working capital, and maintain stringent environmental, health, and safety (EHS) compliance.

Key Responsibilities

• Strategic Sourcing & Procurement Excellence
• Direct & Bulk Chemical Sourcing: Lead commercial procurement strategies for base intermediate chemicals (e.g., Phenol, Formaldehyde, Methanol), specialty additives, solvents, catalysts, packaging materials, and industrial fuels.
• Capex & Engineering Procurement: Oversee procurement of high-value capital assets, infrastructure projects, instrumentation, pumps, valves, and specialized piping infrastructure for chemical processing plants.
• Global Sourcing & Geopolitical Hedging: Drive cross-border strategic sourcing, with a targeted emphasis on building reliable, cost-advantaged vendor networks in China and Southeast Asia. Establish robust Annual Rate Contracts (ARCs) and index-linked contracts to protect margins against volatile commodity swings.
• Contract Management & Commercial Governance: Spearhead negotiations on payment cycles, volume rebates, Incoterms, transit terms, and delivery performance metrics.
• Outside Processing (OPC) & Contract Manufacturing: Lead Cross-Functional Teams (CFT) in evaluating, auditing, and contracting third-party processors and toll manufacturers to support operational scalability.
• Plant Logistics, Bulk Fleet Operations & Warehousing
• Specialized Fleet & Bulk Liquid Transit: Direct bulk logistics operations, including ISO tanks, dedicated road tankers, and heavy transport. Supervise tanker turnaround times, in-transit calibration, shortage monitoring, and rigorous vendor recovery protocols.
• Hazardous Materials (HAZMAT) Management: Enforce rigorous containment, storage, and handling protocols for volatile, toxic, and flammable chemical substances across warehouses and during transit in compliance with statutory EHS rules.
• EXIM & Trade Compliance: Direct customs clearance, cross-border shipping regulations, import/export licensing, tariff classification, Free Trade Agreement (FTA) leverage, and export scrips management.
• Integrated Planning & Working Capital Optimization
• Demand & Supply Integration (S&OP): Align rolling sales forecasts with plant capacity and manufacturing schedules to ensure dynamic safety-stock levels and eliminate production downtime.
• Working Capital & Inventory Health: Drive inventory turn velocity, lead-time reduction programs, and dead-stock/slow-moving inventory audits. Execute regulatory-compliant, environmentally safe disposal programs for obsolete materials and industrial scrap.
• Digital Infrastructure & Operational Excellence
• Enterprise Modernization: Drive digital transformation across SCM utilizing enterprise SAP/ERP frameworks, warehouse management systems (WMS), and telematics tracking tools.
• Vendor Development & Value Engineering: Instill a value-engineering mindset across the team; systematically identify alternate chemical grades, cultivate secondary supplier bases, and drive total cost of ownership (TCO) reductions.
• Enterprise Risk Management & Statutory Compliance
• Supply Chain Resilience: Continually stress-test supply chains against supply choke points, sole-source dependencies, and geopolitical risks, implementing active Business Continuity Plans (BCP).
• Audit & Safety Governance: Ensure all warehouse and transport partners strictly adhere to chemical transport safety guidelines, statutory factory acts, and environmental regulatory directives.
  
  

Candidate Profile & QualificationsEducational Credentials

• Mandatory: Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Supply Chain Management, or Materials Science.
• Preferred: Full-time MBA or PGDM in Supply Chain, Materials Management, or Operations from a premier business school.
  
  

Experience Profile

• Tenure: 15–20+ years of high-impact procurement and supply chain experience, ideally within the specialty chemicals, resins, petrochemicals, or continuous-process manufacturing sectors.
• Direct Category Expertise: Proven exposure to bulk purchasing of core petrochemical/chemical intermediates (Phenol, Formaldehyde, Methanol, Solvents, Catalysts) and plant operating fuels.
• Cross-Border Sourcing: Proven, firsthand experience developing and managing strategic suppliers and supply channels out of China.
• Operational Breadth: Minimum 5+ years overseeing plant-level warehousing, hazardous bulk chemical transportation, and inventory controls.
• Supplier Network: An active, established commercial network with chemical manufacturers, indenters, and distributors across domestic and overseas markets.
  
  

Core Competencies & Leadership Attributes

• Executive Gravitas & Negotiation: Ability to command commercial negotiations, challenge external suppliers on margins, and present strategic supply market insights to executive leadership.
• Hands-on, Agile Mindset: Balances high-level strategic architecture with an operational drive to resolve shop-floor bottlenecks and critical supply delays swiftly.
• Cross-Functional & Global Collaboration: Adept at managing matrixed, multi-disciplinary teams across production, R&D, finance, quality, and regulatory affairs.
• Analytical & Communication Mastery: Strong data-driven approach to spend analysis, combined with articulate communication across all organizational levels.
  
  

Skills: capex sourcing,sourcing materials,risk audits,supply chain management,inventory management,sap,procurement,chemicals,logistics management,contract negotiation,supplier management,capital & expense budget management