Head - Indirect Sourcing

About the company

Tata Electronics Private Limited is a new venture within the Tata Group focused on manufacturing precision components. The company is developing India’s first AI-powered, advanced semiconductor foundry that will make chips used in power management ICs, display drivers, microcontrollers, and high-performance computing logic. These products are intended to serve fast-growing sectors such as automotive, computing, data storage, wireless communications, and artificial intelligence.

Tata Electronics is part of the Tata Group, which operates in over 100 countries across six continents and is guided by a long-term mission to create value for stakeholders while improving the quality of life in the communities it serves.

Role overview

The Head of Indirect Sourcing will own the full indirect procurement agenda for Tata Electronics across EMS and semiconductor manufacturing sites, as well as corporate offices worldwide. This senior leadership position will shape a scalable sourcing function across technology, infrastructure, and non-technology spend, while driving cost efficiency, compliance, and operational excellence across locations.

The role also requires substantial experience in IT and technology sourcing, infrastructure sourcing, standard indirect categories, and the setup of social infrastructure for greenfield manufacturing environments.

Key responsibilities

• Develop and execute the enterprise indirect sourcing strategy in line with business ramp-up plans, project schedules, and cost targets.
• Consolidate indirect spend across businesses and projects to improve leverage across sites and functions.
• Set up governance structures, policies, and operating cadences for EMS and semiconductor operations.
• Strengthen standardization, compliance, and risk control across all indirect procurement categories.
• Manage sourcing for IT hardware such as servers, storage, networking equipment, end-user devices, and AV systems.
• Lead procurement for enterprise software, SaaS platforms, digital solutions, and IT professional services.
• Work with IT leadership on sourcing strategy, supplier rationalization, commercial negotiations, and lifecycle planning.
• Drive sourcing for non-plant infrastructure, including hostels, townships, vendor parks, logistics parks, and common utilities such as power, water, and gas.
• Support fast expansion of greenfield and brownfield sites while balancing speed, scalability, and cost discipline.
• Oversee procurement of professional services, consulting, HR, legal, travel, hotels, facilities, real estate, and other indirect goods and services.
• Create category strategies, preferred supplier arrangements, and long-term commercial frameworks.
• Partner closely with operations, manufacturing, IT, finance, HR, administration, and project teams.
• Use sourcing systems and tools to improve transparency, gather multi-stakeholder input, and track performance.
• Enable decisions through spend analytics, data visibility, and supplier performance measurement.

Qualifications and experience

• 15 to 20 years of progressive experience in indirect sourcing, procurement, or supply chain roles.
• Strong, proven expertise in IT sourcing, infrastructure sourcing, and standard indirect categories is required.
• Experience in a manufacturing environment is preferred.
• Candidate should be comfortable with extensive travel across multiple sites as business needs require.

Core competencies

• Strong command of IT hardware, software, services, and infrastructure sourcing.
• Sharp commercial judgment with the ability to handle complex negotiations and contract design.
• Ability to build and scale sourcing teams in fast-growing environments.
• Influence and collaborate effectively with senior stakeholders across business, technology, and operations.
• Executive-level presence with an enterprise-wide mindset.

Additional information

This is a GM-level leadership role with responsibility across multiple sites and functions. The position is based in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, and requires on-site presence.