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You ll be working with the Supply Chain team This team runs on supplier negotiations spend analysis and coffee with suppliers of course The team has an infectious passion for building deep and engaging relationships with our supplier partners and developing capabilities to manufacture innovative products and components Our philosophy Break Believe Build Break stuff Break assumptions Break the thumb rule Believe in the team Believe in the process Believe through failures Build fast Build passionately Build to simplify What you will do In this role you will own the strategic sourcing of all Metal components working closely with supplier partners engineering product and operations teams to deliver Exponent Enabled Electric Vehicles with 15-minute rapid charging to the market Responsibilities Drive supplier relationships to deliver supplier partner metrics of cost quality delivery localisation Negotiate prices contracts and on-board suppliers in tandem with new product development Drive sourcing projects and build process capabilities with partners across Fabrication Stamping Casting parts and Fasteners Adhesives Drive should costing for the NPD projects Benchmark cost quality identify suppliers process capabilities or technologies that will drive productivity Drive supplier engagements to further innovation quality across products The ideal candidate requires Relevant 4 to 5 years of experience with strategic sourcing metal components Structured problem-solving detail orientation and customer-first attitude Data-driven decision making What matters Empathy toward all customers Holding Context as your guiding force Approach towards problem-solving A positive attitude Resilient attitude to bounce back after failure About Us Exponent simplifies energy for EVs Co-founded by Arun Vinayak Ather Energy s Founding Partner Former Chief Product Officer and Sanjay Byalal Former hardware strategic sourcing and cell strategy lead Ather and Former Supply Chain Lead HUL Exponent focuses on solving two sides of the energy problem by building the e pump charging station and e pack battery pack which together unlock 15-min rapid charging The 200 strong team has tons of EV experience and is in the process of hiring more professionals to build scale Exponent as one of the best EV Energy Companies out of India