Indirect Sourcing Specialist
Join Ensto as Indirect Sourcing Specialist: drive strategic sourcing across MRO, CAPEX, and services with global teams, flexible remote work, and real impact.
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Are you ready to light up the world with your work and spark a brighter future through electricity?
Come join Ensto family as our new Indirect Sourcing Specialist.
Ensto is an international, growth-oriented family business and technology company that creates smart solutions for electricity distribution networks. For 65 years, we have been dedicated to electricity with a long-term and human-centric approach. Our aim is to become a leading expert for distribution system operators, help them succeed and create a more sustainable tomorrow.
We offer innovative and reliable, long-lifecycle overhead lines, underground networks, network automation and new smart technology products and solutions for electricity distribution networks. Our own R&D, manufacturing, and laboratories give us the expertise to continually innovate and serve our customers on an individual level.
Job Objective:
Strategic steering of spend across the Ensto Group, within assigned indirect categories.
The Indirect Sourcing Specialist will oversee and streamline the procurement of non-direct goods and services, focusing on cost savings, vendor management, and compliance.
Responsible for regional and Group suppliers: selection, negotiations, contracts and management to ensure the best ratio of quality/time/cost/risk
Drive cross-unit / country synergies through multiple levers and robust category strategies and actions
Responsibilities:
Develop and implement category strategies for MRO, CAPEX (including production tools), facility management, utilities, travel, logistics, and service providers (including marketing) at India and Global Group levels.
Conduct category and value-chain analysis to identify risks, opportunities, and optimal supplier configurations aligned with business objectives.
Lead end-to-end strategic sourcing, including spend analysis, supplier evaluation, negotiations, contracting, and category execution.
Drive cost optimization through demand understanding, market intelligence, innovation, and Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) approach.
Consolidate Global Group-level spend and ensure compliance with approved suppliers, contracts, and purchasing channels.
Monitor and report category KPIs, budgets, and forecasts; manage category-related financial, quality, and supply risks.
Partner with internal stakeholders across functions and regions to support rationalization, supply chain optimization, and early supplier involvement in business and R&D projects.
Develop and execute supplier management strategies, including segmentation, performance management, audits, risk assessment, and sustainability requirements.
Hold Global Group-level responsibility for assigned suppliers, manage supplier changes, and ensure continuity of components and services.
Job Specifications:
Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Supply Chain, Business, or a related field.
Proven 3~5 years of experience in strategic sourcing, category management, or procurement at India and/or Global Group level.
Strong exposure to MRO, CAPEX, services sourcing, supplier management, and contract negotiations.
Solid understanding of cost optimization, TCO concepts, supplier risk management, and spend analytics.
Ability to collaborate with cross‑functional and global stakeholders, including R&D and operations teams.
Excellent communication, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills.
Proficiency in ERP and collaboration tools such as SAP, IFS, Teams, and MS Office 365.
SALARY RANGE
Best in Industry
What we offer you:
Partial work-from-home facility.
5 Days a week working.
Enthusiastic and encouraging culture.
Global work processes exposure.
Personality Traits:
Dynamic, open‑minded, with strong independent and strategic thinking abilities.
Highly analytical mindset with a clear vision and structured approach to decision‑making.
Strong ability and ambition to work independently and take ownership of decisions.
Excellent problem‑solving and critical‑thinking skills.
Willingness to undertake extensive travel as required by the role.
Strong collaboration and coordination skills across multiple functions and organizational levels.
Excellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills.
Hands‑on, proactive attitude with high motivation and a strong desire to learn and continuously develop.
Demonstrated leadership qualities with the ability to influence and drive results.
Our Culture: Feel Connected
Ensto is an international tech company creating smart solutions for electricity distribution networks. But we also do so much more. We want to build the world’s best connections, and help our people feel more connected with their work, each other, and the environment.
Ensto colleagues are a diverse group of people from all around the world. Even though we are different, we are all connected by the enthusiastic and encouraging culture of a family-owned business. We give students and trainees a chance to make their very first connections to work life. Top talents get to connect with each other, to build a professional network supporting their own careers. The work we do together against climate change with green electricity connects us to future generations and the well-being of this planet we all live on.
We want to make the best connections, and we want you to come and make them with us. Be part of a work community that embraces diversity, curiosity, and openness.
- Department
- Procurement
- Locations
- Haryana
- Remote status
- Hybrid
