Assistant Manager - Vendor Development (Mechanical)
Role Overview
The Assistant Manager leads sourcing, evaluation, and onboarding of suppliers specializing in surface treatment and chemical processing.
The role oversees vendor performance, payment processing, and capacity planning for compliant component supply to NPD, design revisions, and capacity expansions through SOP.
The role is accountable for quality, cost, and Direct-on-Line targets.
Key Skills for This Role
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Role overview
The Assistant Manager leads sourcing, evaluation, and onboarding of suppliers specializing in surface treatment and chemical processing.
The role oversees vendor performance, payment processing, and capacity planning for compliant component supply to NPD, design revisions, and capacity expansions through SOP.
The role is accountable for quality, cost, and Direct-on-Line targets.
Key responsibilities
- Issue RFQs from engineering drawings and BOMs, evaluate surface-treatment vendors, and lead DFM reviews for technical feasibility, coating consistency, and part durability.
- Partner with Cost Management on target costs, negotiate pricing and payment terms, and align vendor proposals with target cost bands.
- Oversee APQP and PPAP qualification, direct SQEs, conduct CQI-compliance process audits, and implement corrective actions to reduce incoming rejections.
- Track supplier lead times, capacity, and order status to meet DOL targets and vehicle business plans.
Required skills
- Deep knowledge of heat treatment, including carburizing, nitriding, and induction; zinc and chrome plating; industrial painting; and powder-coating standards CQI-9, CQI-11, and CQI-12.
- Hands-on mastery of APQP, PPAP, FMEA, SPC, and MSA.
- Strong target-costing, price-breakdown, contract negotiation, and payment-term management skills.
- Expertise in process capability audits, root cause analysis using 8D and 5-Why, and quality corrective-action tracking.
Location
- The description lists Oragadam.
Requirements
- Deep knowledge of heat-treatment processes, including carburizing, nitriding, and induction; surface plating; industrial painting; and powder-coating standards.
- Hands-on mastery of APQP, PPAP, FMEA, SPC, and MSA.
- Strong capability in target costing, price breakdown analysis, contract negotiations, and payment-term management.
- Expertise in process capability audits, root cause analysis using 8D and 5-Why, and corrective-action tracking.
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