4) Key Result Areas/Accountabilities: |
KRA | Supporting Actions |
Safety | - Drive adherence to safety standard by all scrap suppliers, aggregators, and yards.
- Ensure safe handling, loading/unloading, and transportation of scrap to prevent injuries, spills or equipment damage.
- Conduct safety audits of yards and collection centers
- Conduct safety inductions and refreshers for sourcing teams, key suppliers, and transporters.
- Drive safety awareness through BBSO based safe practices
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Sustainability | - Ensure that scrap is sourced from ethical, legal, and environmentally compliant sources.
- Drive enrichment of sourcing mix by increasing the proportion of post-consumer and closed-loop scrap.
- Drive end-to-end compliance, supplier audits and transparency by ensuring reliable sustainability data for disclosures and adherence to regulatory, certification and reporting norms at all sourcing locations.
- Engage effectively with the management, regulators, communities, suppliers, and customers.
- Ensure timely recording of data in terms of price trends, vendor performance, logistics, and quality
- Lead evaluation, onboarding, and regularly reviewing supplier performance and compliance in the region
- Implement best practices in yard management, including safety, inventory control, and environmental compliance.
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Cash | - Optimizeworking capital requirement for the regionby optimizing inventory, increasing payable days to vendors, timely movement of scrap and sale of by-products from yards
- Lead negotiation and finalization of long-term contracts and agreements including commercial terms
- Drive initiatives to reduce total procurement cost and improve cash savings through better negotiation, process efficiency, and market timing.
- Ensure all scrap purchases are hedged in a timely manner
- Drive use of digital tools to track cash outflow related to procurement, supplier payments, and logistics
- Forecast and adhere to sourcing budgets and cash-related variances for the region
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Cost | - Achieve budgeted volumes within approved/budgeted purchase pricing
- Leverage supplier relationships, existing customers, market intelligence, price benchmarking, quality and volume commitments to drive scrap sourcing at competitive rates.
- Purchase scrap based on input mix to balance cost and production requirements.
- Regularly benchmark global and regional scrap prices to stay competitive
- Optimize freight modes, route planning, loading efficiency & logistics to control inbound logistics costs.
- . Align scrap purchase price with estimated recovery to ensure profitability
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Customer Centricity | - Collaborate with internal/ external stakeholders (plant, tolling partner, customers, purchase, finance, primary sales, downstream business) for efficient scrap sourcing from scrap dealers and customers
- Lead development of close-loop customer solutions in the region
- Source diverse types of scrap to support custom alloys, low-carbon aluminium, or other differentiated products based on customer needs.
- Drive initiatives in the region to promote Hindalco in sustainable recycling and circular economy solutions.
- Lead supply of desired quality scrap from the region to downstream operations
- Ensure adherence to customer norms in scrap sourcing (e.g. traceability, EPR, etc.)
- Managing disputes related to weighment, scrap quality, payments, etc. with the vendors
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Systems / Process / People | - Leverage Hindalco systems, support in development of digital tools and drive implementation in scrap sourcing and yard operations in the region
- Optimize scrap sourcing across yards, collection centre, customers and direct purchases from scrap dealers
- Support development and adherence to standardized operating procedures (SOPs) for scrap procurement, quality inspection, and logistics coordination.
- Develop dashboards and reports to track KPIs such as cost per ton, scrap mix ratio, and vendor contribution.
- Timely review and update KPI and critical performance parameters for the region
- Develop new systems and share know-how with other regions to build a continuous improvement culture
- Team building, develop capabilities in negotiation and scrap vendor mapping and mentoring
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