Assistant Vice President/Head - Procurement - Old Batteries Recycling

Key Responsibilities :

The Head/Assistant Vice President - Procurement will lead strategic sourcing and commercial development for end-of-life batteries, spent catalysts, spent permanent magnets, battery manufacturing scrap, and other secondary materials containing critical minerals. The mandate is to build scalable feedstock partnerships, convert strategic accounts into long-term contracts, and ensure that commercial growth is tightly linked to compliant reverse logistics, traceability, and on-time supply to operations.

Strategic Business Development and Contract Origination :

• Build and convert a high-value pipeline for long-term procurement and supply agreements covering end-of-life / spent batteries, battery manufacturing scrap, spent catalysts, and spent permanent magnets.
• Identify, map, and prioritize target accounts across EV OEMs, battery OEMs, battery pack assemblers, electronics brands, telecom operators, industrial users, service networks, aggregators, dismantlers, metal traders, and global scrap channels.
• Develop account-specific go-to-market strategies aligned to annual revenue targets, sourcing budgets, plant feed requirements, and margin expectations.
• Structure multi-year commercial frameworks, rate contracts, spot-to-term conversion plans, and strategic partnership models to lock in recurring feedstock.
• Build relationships with decision-makers in procurement, sustainability, EHS, supply chain, service, operations, finance, and compliance teams.

Commercial Negotiation and Deal Execution :

• Lead end-to-end commercial negotiations for supply pricing, quality specifications, moisture and contamination assumptions, assay-linked settlements, payment terms, logistics responsibilities, liability allocation, and reconciliation mechanisms.
• Design commercially robust contracts with clear service-level agreements, volume commitments, escalation pathways, take-or-pay / supply assurance clauses where relevant, and dispute-resolution frameworks.
• Drive commercial settlements and resolve claims relating to weight loss, sorting variance, hazardous handling, quality deviations, transit incidents, and documentation gaps.
• Partner with legal, finance, and operations teams to ensure strong contracting discipline and minimized execution leakage.

Reverse Logistics and Supply Chain Coordination :

• Own the commercial side of reverse logistics under supply agreements, ensuring smooth movement of materials from customer locations to operations.
• Coordinate packaging, safe handling, transporter alignment, pickup planning, route economics, storage controls, and delivery schedules in line with hazardous-material requirements and partner commitments.
• Build traceable collection systems with documentation discipline, shipment visibility, barcode or lot-level tracking logic, and turnaround-time governance inspired by strong industry practices in reverse logistics and traceability.
• Work cross-functionally with operations, EHS, quality, finance, and compliance teams to ensure incoming material is actionable, documented, and commercially reconciled.

Compliance, Governance, and Risk Management :

• Support due diligence on counterparties, documentation readiness, audit preparedness, and eligibility under EPR / waste-management frameworks.
• Maintain high standards of governance across pricing approvals, contract reviews, channel onboarding, and settlement controls.

Market Intelligence and Strategic Planning :

• Track market developments in battery recycling, electronics recovery, critical minerals, black mass flows, EPR compliance, and emerging opportunities in catalysts and rare-earth magnets.
• Convert market intelligence into account plans, coverage models, annual budgets, and quarterly business reviews.

Ideal Candidate Profile :

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Commerce, Supply Chain, Metallurgy, Chemical Engineering, or a related field; MBA preferred.
• 10-15 years of experience in business development, strategic sourcing, ESG-linked industrial partnerships, recycling, metals, waste management, electronics, battery value chains, or adjacent circular-economy sectors.
• Strong understanding of the Indian electronics, battery, automotive, industrial, or materials supply chain, with an active network across OEMs, channel partners, collectors, traders, and compliance stakeholders.
• Demonstrated success in negotiating high-value B2B contracts, developing new markets, and converting fragmented supply ecosystems into structured commercial programs.
• Experience managing cross-functional teams spanning sales, operations, logistics, EHS, finance, legal, and compliance.
• Comfort with a travel-intensive role requiring up to 60% travel across India and, where required, international markets.