Type: Fixed-term internship — three months (non-renewable)
Location: Trichy / Coimbatore (on-site)
Reports to: Vendor Development / Sourcing
The role
Frigate maintains a master database of manufacturing vendors (mechanical, electrical, heavy engineering) spread across India. This is a focused sprint over the internship to
call every vendor, confirm their details, record their interest in working with Frigate, and hand back a clean, verified, deduplicated database.
Responsibilities
- Work through the vendor master systematically — a steady daily call volume, with full coverage of every vendor (plus follow-ups) within the internship.
- On each call, verify and correct: legal company name, GST, city/state, contact person + designation, phone, email, website, certifications (ISO / IATF / API etc.), and primary/secondary manufacturing processes.
- Gauge and log partnership interest: current capacity availability, willingness on credit terms, export / EU readiness, and any live enquiry they want Frigate to quote.
- Tag every vendor: Interested / Follow-up / Not interested / Unreachable / Defunct-or-wrong-number.
- Flag duplicates and merge candidates spotted during calls.
- Maintain a daily call log; escalate strategic or high-interest vendors to the sourcing/KAM team the same day.
What you'll deliver (by the end)
- A fully verified master — blanks filled, bad records removed.
- An interested vendors shortlist with capacity + credit notes, ready for sourcing to act on.
- A cleansed-out list of dead / defunct / wrong-contact vendors.
Requirements
- Diploma / degree; mechanical or manufacturing exposure preferred — must understand terms like casting, sheet metal, machining, forging.
- Fluent Tamil, Hindi and English. Vendors are spread across Tamil Nadu, Gujarat (Rajkot), Punjab (Ludhiana), Maharashtra and more — Hindi is essential for the North/West cluster.
- Comfortable with Excel / Google Sheets and disciplined about data entry.
- Confident on the phone, persistent, reliable with follow-ups.
Success measures
- Whole database reached and verified.
- Every record complete and accurate.
- Interested vendors clearly identified and shortlisted.
- Duplicate / defunct records cleansed out.
