Senior Manager Parts Planning & Procurement

About the Role

The Senior Manager – Parts Planning & Procurement will lead
end-to-end parts supply for in-house refurbishment operations and aftersales
requirements. The role involves, developing sourcing strategies for
multi-brand, multi-model parts, building supplier partnerships, and driving the
aftermarket business for DriveX-branded parts and supplies — with a strong
focus on operational excellence, cost optimization, and inventory planning. Business
horizon covers around maintaining 20K SKUs and serving more than 100 MMVs. This
position works closely with the Production Manager and Warehouse Manager to
align parts planning and procurement with operational needs.

Procurement & Supplier Development

• Develop and execute sourcing strategies
  for multi-brand, multi-model automotive spare parts.
  
• Build and expand a strong supplier
  ecosystem across OEM distributors, OES suppliers, and aftermarket vendors.
  
• Parts planning and order management to
  meet production and aftersales parts requirements.
  
• Drive supplier performance reviews on
  quality, cost, delivery, fill-rate, and service metrics.
  
• Identify alternate sourcing opportunities
  to reduce dependency and optimize parts cost.
  
• Lead the parts development and sourcing
  activities for DriveX branded parts with channel partner.
  

Parts Planning, Cataloguing & database
management

• Build demand forecasting models based on
  sales trends, consumption, and refurbishment patterns to drive stocking
  policies — reorder levels, safety stock, EOQ, and replenishment.
  
• Own and maintain the parts master
  database across all brands, ensuring accurate part numbers, descriptions, upgrade
  as per OEM changes, and MMV mapping.
  
• Maintain OEM references, OES information
  and cross-reference data for accurate part identification.
  
• Establish and manage pricing and discount
  structure for all parts procured from dealers and suppliers.
  

Parts Sales Support

• Ensure timely parts availability to
  support retail sales, workshops, refurbishment centres, service operations
  and post sales requirements.
  
• Analyse parts consumption to identify
  opportunities for assortment expansion.
  
• Support revenue growth by improving
  availability of fast-moving and critical spare parts. Creating a discount
  structure for increase in parts sales revenue and profitability.
  
• Build a distribution network for the
  DriveX range of aftermarket parts.
  

Process Excellence, Analytics &
Stakeholder Management

• Build scalable, repeatable procurement
  and supplier development processes to support business growth.
  
• Develop executive dashboards tracking
  procurement, supplier performance, inventory health, and key operational
  KPIs.
  
• Track procurement savings, inventory
  productivity, supplier scorecards, and service level performance.
  
• Collaborate closely with Operations,
  Service, Sales, Finance, Product, Technology, and Logistics teams.
  
• Drive cross-functional projects that
  improve customer experience and operational efficiency.
  

Requirements

Educational Qualification

• Bachelor's degree in
  Mechanical/Automobile Engineering (mandatory).
  

Experience

• 12–15 years of progressive experience in
  automotive parts procurement, inventory planning, supply chain, or
  aftermarket operations.
  
• Minimum 4–5 years leading teams within
  automotive spare parts or aftermarket businesses.
  
• Strong exposure to multi-brand spare
  parts procurement and inventory management.
  
• Demonstrated experience in supplier
  development, strategic sourcing, and demand planning.
  
• Proven track record leading
  transformation, process improvement, and cost optimization initiatives.
  
• Experience with ERP platforms such as SAP
  and data-driven inventory planning tools.