Supply Chain Manager – Steel Processing & Distribution

Job Description:

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 We're 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 it's 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.