Manager - Strategic Sourcing (Electricals)

About River

River is a design company building multi-utility products.

Our flagship product River Indie, #SUVofScooters, is designed to help you get things done. Engineered to be a dependable ally on your road to success.

We're a 1000+ team headquartered in Bengaluru – backed by marquee international investors, with mobility-focused funds linked to Yamaha Motors, Al-Futtaim Automotive Group, Toyota VC, Trucks Venture Capital, Mitsui & Co. Ltd, Marubeni Ventures Inc., Lowercarbon Capital, and Maniv Mobility.

Key Responsibilities

• Owns the electrical commodity strategy for built-to-print EMS assemblies — displays, motor controllers, on-board chargers and DC-DC converters — and the strategic semiconductor supplier relationships behind them.
• Define and maintain a category roadmap aligned to the product and volume plan, with clear cost, capacity, risk and localization targets.
• Lead supplier selection, RFQs and sourcing decisions for new programs (NPI) and for cost/continuity actions on running production.
• Build direct, strategic relationships with semiconductor suppliers — the makers of the power devices (MOSFETs, IGBTs, SiC, gate drivers), microcontrollers, memory, display drivers and analog ICs that drive our assemblies — rather than relying on distribution alone.
• Monitor device pricing, wafer and raw-material (including rare-earth/magnet) trends, FX and logistics to forecast landed-cost movement and time buys
• Stay ahead of shifts (e.g. SiC/GaN adoption, controller and display technology) to guide sourcing and design-in decisions.
• Translate this intelligence into proactive risk actions and buying strategies, and brief leadership with a clear market outlook.
• Own commodity cost — build should-cost/clean-sheet models for EMS assemblies (material, labour, overhead, NRE) and negotiate to them.
• Partner with engineering to influence component selection toward sourceable, second-sourced, lifecycle-healthy parts — early, at design-in.
  
  

Ideal Candidate

• Bachelor's/Master's degree in engineering or Supply chain Management is preferred.
• 8–12+ years in strategic sourcing/procurement of electrical or electronic commodities, including EMS/contract-manufacturing and semiconductor categories.
• a track record of direct semiconductor supplier relationships, allocation/LTA management, and lifecycle (EOL/PCN) handling.
• strong should-cost, negotiation and contracting capability; comfort with cross-functional influence.
• proven use of market intelligence to anticipate lead-time, allocation, pricing or geopolitical shifts and act ahead of them.
• Excellent communication skills and people skills