Senior EngineerAssistant Manager Procurement

Job Summary:

If you are a Procurement specialist Emerson has an exciting role for you! We are looking for a Senior Engineer/Assistant Manager to work for our India Pressure Management Business unit Mahindra World City Chengalpattu location. You will ensure the right materials arrive on time to avoid factory operation delays or line stoppages. This gives you a very important role in helping drive growth platforms and supporting operational pillars while seeking for long-term value creation.

In this Role Your Responsibilities Will Be:

• Procurement execution and PO governance

  • Ensure approved requisitions are converted into purchase orders within the defined turnaround time.

  • Ensure PO terms prices quantities dates specifications and approvals are complete and accurate.

  • Obtain supplier acknowledgement and maintain current promise dates and relevant purchasing data in ERP.

  • Resolve PO receipt invoice pricing and quantity discrepancies with the relevant functions.

  • Maintain open-order hygiene and close cancel or reschedule orders based on approved requirements.

• Supplier delivery and decommitment management

  • Monitor supplier RDSL past-due lines unconfirmed orders and upcoming due-line risk.

  • Require documented recovery plans for supplier decommitments and escalate critical gaps promptly.

  • Lead focused reviews with high-risk suppliers including capacity raw-material quality and logistics constraints.

  • Coordinate expediting allocation alternate-source evaluation and other approved mitigation actions.

  • Provide accurate supply-status visibility to Planning and plant leadership.

• Commercial and supplier management

  • Lead time MOQ payment terms and delivery conditions within delegated authority.

  • Support cost-reduction cost-avoidance localization lead-time reduction and sourcing initiatives.

  • Provide supplier-performance feedback to Strategic Sourcing and support supplier business reviews.

  • Ensure supplier onboarding and transactions follow approved procurement and compliance processes.

• People and process leadership

  • Set daily and weekly priorities for buyers based on production and customer risk.

  • Coach the team in negotiation ERP discipline supplier communication root-cause analysis and escalation.

  • Standardize buyer dashboards reason codes recovery tracking and review routines.

  • Drive continuous improvement and automation of repetitive purchasing activities.

Who You Are:

You quickly and decisively act in constantly evolving unexpected situations. You adjust communication content and style to meet the needs of diverse partners. You always keep the end in sight; puts in extra effort to meet deadlines. You analyze multiple and diverse sources of information to define problems accurately before moving to solutions. You observe situational and group dynamics and select best-fit approach.

For This Role You Will Need:

• Supplier commitment coverage is measured weekly and the target is to have at least 95% of futuredue PO lines confirmed by suppliers.

• Pastdue PO lines are tracked weekly with performance measured against the siteapproved target.

• Supplier RDSL is checked monthly focusing on ontime receipts as defined by the site standard.

• Decommitment recovery is reviewed weekly aiming to recover decommitted lines by the required date according to site targets.

• PO turnaround is monitored weekly with a goal of converting requisitions to POs within the SLA at 95%.

• Material shortages caused by buying delays are tracked weekly with the target of zero critical events.

• Premium freight due to procurement gaps is measured monthly with the goal of zero or within the approved limit.

• Savings and commercial improvement are validated monthly against the annual plan.

• Unallocated inventory is reduced monthly with a target of 10% reduction yearonyear.

• Supplier lead time is tracked monthly aiming to keep key casting suppliers within three weeks and monitor those exceeding this lead time.

• Drives results and accountability

• Decision quality and problem solving

• Negotiation and supplier influence

• Plans and aligns

• Communicates effectively

• Collaborates across functions

• Develops talent

• Integrity and compliance discipline

• Familiar with Oracle application of Betsy & Billy.

Core Competencies

Preferred Qualifications that Set You Apart:

• Bachelors degree in Engineering Supply Chain Operations Business or a related discipline.

• Typically 13-18 years of purchasing or supply-chain experience in a manufacturing environment including team-lead or supervisory exposure.

• Working knowledge of ERP/MRP systems open-order management and supplier-performance reporting.

• Demonstrated capability in recovery planning stakeholder management and data analysis.

Our Culture & Commitment to You

At Emerson we prioritize a workplace where every employee is valued respected and empowered to grow. We foster an environment that encourages innovation collaboration and diverse perspectivesbecause we know that great ideas come from great teams. Our commitment to ongoing career development and growing an inclusive culture ensures you have the support to thrive. Whether through mentorship training or leadership opportunities we invest in your success so you can make a lasting impact. We believe diverse teams working together are key to driving growth and delivering business results.

We recognize the importance of employee wellbeing. We prioritize providing competitive benefits plans a variety of medical insurance plans Employee Assistance Program employee resource groups recognition and much more. Our culture offers flexible time off plans including paid parental leave (maternal and paternal) vacation and holiday leave.