Supply Chain Manager – Steel Processing & Distribution

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Role Overview

This role is for a hands-on, highly alert, market-aware, and cross-functional Supply Chain Manager who can ensure smooth material movement, eliminate bottlenecks, and enhance responsiveness in a time-sensitive environment.

The SCM leader will be the anchor between procurement, production planning, operations, suppliers, buyers, and logistics partners-with full responsibility for raw material planning, inventory health, delivery coordination, cost tracking, and mill-level sourcing intelligence.

Key Responsibilities

• Raw Material & Inventory Planning

• Forecast raw material requirements based on order pipeline, production plans, nesting logic, and market cycles.
• Plan and release requisition orders aligned to coil specs, grade, finish, color, and thickness.
• Track real-time inventory health across finished, semi-finished, rejected, and incoming stocks.
• Maintain buffer vs JIT balance-based on demand patterns, mill schedules, and logistics constraints.

🭠Supplier Coordination & Procurement Execution

• Liaise with JSW mills and authorized distributors for timely ordering and lifting of coils.
• Ensure PO placement, GRN tracking, invoice matching, and rejection replacement claims are coordinated with precision.
• Maintain strong relations with steel mills and understand their availability windows, seasonal pressures, and price band movements.

🚚 Inbound Logistics & Delivery Management

• Coordinate with transporters and warehouse teams for timely offloading, stacking, and shift-level raw material flow.
• Keep operations, PPC, and BD teams updated about incoming material schedules.
• Anticipate transit delays, mill delays, or quality mismatches and take preemptive action.

🾠Claims, Rejections & Scrap Handling Support

• Track and close the loop on incoming rejection issues-work with QC, AE, CAM, and PPC to escalate cases with documentation.
• Coordinate with the supplier portal for claim uploads, MOMs, and commercial settlement.
• Assist in scrap disposal logistics, getting clearance from Plant/Management, and updating inventory systems.

Cross-Functional Coordination

• Collaborate daily with PPC, QC, BD, Production, Dispatch and ensure material movement is always in sync with execution priorities.
• Respond in real-time to changes in production needs, buyer escalations, or mill delivery variations.
• Maintain zero-gap communication loop between buyer orders and mill fulfillment.

Market & Cost Intelligence

• Monitor steel market trends, mill rates, coil availability, and raw material cost movements.
• Work with management to decide on purchase timing, vendor switching, or rate negotiation strategies.
• Understand buyer consumption patterns, seasonal demand fluctuations, and procurement windows.
• Documentation, Compliance & Reporting. maintain updated documentation for POs, GRNs, claims, delivery notes, and rejection records.
• Prepare daily/weekly SCM dashboards showing material status, pending orders, claim statuses, scrap stock, and supplier follow-ups.
• Ensure all SCM practices are documented, auditable, and transparent.

Who Were Looking For

• ✅ Must-Haves
• 8+ years of experience in supply chain, procurement, or logistics in steel, metals, or capital goods.
• Strong exposure to coil-based steel material handling, mill procurement, and material lifecycle management.
• Familiarity with JSW Steel or similar mills-coils, grades, ordering cycles, and price behavior.
• Deep coordination experience with plant, quality, PPC, and production teams.

Core Traits

• Street-smart, proactive, and commercially aware

• Strong at relationship building with internal teams and suppliers

• Foresighted-plans with backup and timelines in mind

• Excellent communicator & comprehender-both verbally and in writing

• Ownership mindset-follows through to result, not just handover

• Strong managerial discipline in documentation, data, and reporting

What Success Looks Like

• Raw material always arrives before its needed-never after.

• Zero panic from PPC or production due to material shortage.

• Mill relationships strong-no follow-up fatigue.

• All claims tracked and settled timely with maximum recovery.

• Inventory well-maintained-no dead stock or over-ordering.

• Plant operates with confidence and rhythm because SCM is rock-solid.