Should Costing and Sourcing Experts

Quest Global is an organization at the forefront of innovation and one of the world’s fastest growing engineering services firms with deep domain knowledge and recognized expertise in the top OEMs across seven industries. We are a twenty-five-year-old company on a journey to becoming a centenary one, driven by aspiration, hunger and humility.

We are looking for humble geniuses, who believe that engineering has the potential to make the impossible, possible; innovators, who are not only inspired by technology and innovation, but also perpetually driven to design, develop, and test as a trusted partner for Fortune 500 customers.

As a team of remarkably diverse engineers, we recognize that what we are really engineering is a brighter future for us all. If you want to contribute to meaningful work and be part of an organization that truly believes when you win, we all win, and when you fail, we all learn, then we’re eager to hear from you.

The achievers and courageous challenge-crushers we seek, have the following characteristics and skills:
**Roles & Responsibilities**:

- Evaluation of Design to Cost (DTC) approach
- Should cost analysis through aPriori, Boothroyd & empirical evaluation.
- Data-based analysis to drive cost benefit for Component Cost (DMP) & Mfg. process (DLP)
- Detailed Should cost analysis based on material, manufacturing processes, and other cost elements for both Built to Spec and Built to Print products through analytical, tear down approach.
- Supplier Integration and Strategic Sourcing to meet all the requirements for lead time, performance, reliability, cost and manufacturability in RM components
- Global Spend analysis, Specifications mapping and data analytics by commodity, divisions, suppliers etc.
- Ability to identify opportunities through Make Vs Buy, Volume Consolidation, Technical Specification standardization and influence the global cross functional teams to adapt the identified opportunities.
- Market connect to Identify suppliers globally and locally, with capability to manufacture and supply required commodities.
- Cost based benchmarking analysis and provide insight into opportunities to improve cost structure(s).
- Excellent ability to develop, & manage strategic supplier relationships, leveraging above-average business acumen.
- Lead supplier RFx (Requests for Proposal/Quotation etc.) processes for GE PC Systems to ensure rapid response for competitive price/quality/lead time trade-off’s
- Work with platform owners early at design phase to integrate DTC best practices and adopt supplier standard parts & processes to PPS
- Able to Influence cross functional teams, Operations, Supply Chain, Engineering and Product Management to drive cost out and implementation of long-term commodity sourcing strategies resulting in best-in-class Productivity, Quality, Delivery and Cost on all categories
- Support regional team Sourcing & Manufacturing at Factory / Vendor facility
- Ability to travel up to 20-30% of the time, both domestic and international

**Required Skills (Technical Competency)**:

- Bachelor's / Master's degree in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering or Equivalent.
- Min. 6 - 9 years of RM design & sourcing expertise for industrial drives and its related components (Renewables / Oil & Gas / Marine / Metal Process Industrial knowledge preferred).
- Minimum 3+ years’ experience in Strategic Sourcing Engineering role for RM Equipment.
- Familiarity with Design & Development approach for RM components, exposure to IEC & UL standards.
- Detailed understanding on material selection criteria, available standard raw material sizes in the market.
- Excellent communication, presentation & influencing skills
- Capable of working with Global Cross functional team
- Proficient knowledge of Sourcing & Engineering tools AutoCAD, Creo etc.,

**Desired Skills**:

- Strong problem solving & analytical skills
- Self-Starter, Ability to multitask and change priorities based on business needs consistently to meet and exceed customer expectations.
- Cross-functional collaboration with Transparency and Team-player attitude.
- Excellent negotiation skill to achieve sourcing objectives.
- Knowledge on Genba practices like Six Sigma, Lean manufacturing, JIT, Kanban, TPM, Kaikaku, Kaizen.
- Knowledge on the pricing of similar products /solutions of International range of suppliers.
- Act as solutions provider when working under ambiguous and changing environments,
- Change Agent to energize teams and perceive change as an opportunity
- Ability to work effectively in a culturally diverse and highly matrix organization
- Experience in production capabilities, performance and quality, of electrical/mechanical components is desired in a similar industrial domain

**Job Type**
- Full Time-Regular

**Experience Level**
- Mid Level

**Total Years of Exp**
- 6 - 9