About The Business
Tata Electronics Private Limited (TEPL) is a greenfield venture of the Tata Group with expertise in manufacturing precision components.
Tata Electronics (a wholly owned subsidiary of Tata Sons Pvt. Ltd.) is building India's first AI-enabled state-of-the-art Semiconductor Foundry. This facility will produce chips for applications such as power management IC, display drivers, microcontrollers (MCU) and high-performance computing logic, addressing the growing demand in markets such as automotive, computing and data storage, wireless communications and artificial intelligence.
Tata Electronics is a subsidiary of the Tata group. The Tata Group operates in more than 100 countries across six continents, with the mission 'To improve the quality of life of the communities we serve globally, through long term stakeholder value creation based on leadership with Trust.'
Purpose
- To lead supply chain governance, compliance, audits, policy, process excellence, digitalization, AI enablement, and enterprise supply chain systems such as SAP Ariba across a complex manufacturing environment. The role is expected to provide strong operational governance across procurement and supply chain functions while also driving transformation, risk control, audit readiness, and process standardization in support of EMS and semiconductor-scale operations.
Role Summary
- This role will own the governance backbone of the Supply Chain organization, including compliance, internal controls, audits, policies, process design, system enablement, digital transformation, AI use-case enablement, and supply chain operational discipline. The incumbent will act as the central integrator across procurement, planning, logistics, warehousing, supplier management, manufacturing interfaces, finance controls, quality, EHS, IT, and leadership stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the Supply Chain Governance function covering policies, standard operating procedures, controls, approval workflows, audit readiness, compliance monitoring, and risk mitigation.
- Design, implement, and continuously improve supply chain policies, process frameworks, RACI structures, control matrices, and governance cadences.
- Drive end-to-end process harmonization across sourcing, procurement, contracting, planning interfaces, logistics, inventory controls, warehousing, supplier onboarding, and transactional governance.
- Own supply chain audit preparedness and closure management for internal audits, external audits, customer audits, statutory audits, and management reviews.
- Establish strong compliance mechanisms for procurement governance, delegation of authority, bidding controls, contract compliance, exception management, and documentation discipline.
- Lead digitalization initiatives within supply chain, including workflow automation, dashboarding, analytics, master-data discipline, process mining opportunities, and system-driven control improvements.
- Identify and enable practical AI use cases within supply chain, including analytics, risk sensing, demand/supply insights, document intelligence, workflow acceleration, and decision-support use cases.
- Serve as the business owner or senior functional lead for SAP Ariba / Ariba-enabled procurement processes, including adoption, governance, process compliance, user alignment, and enhancement priorities.
- Partner with IT, digital, finance, quality, legal, and operations teams to ensure supply chain processes are scalable, compliant, and system-enabled.
- Support leadership reviews with structured reporting on governance KPIs, audit observations, non-compliance trends, process bottlenecks, digital adoption, and corrective-action closure.
- Drive supplier governance standards, including onboarding controls, commercial compliance, process adherence, and risk-based monitoring.
- Support business continuity and resilience planning across critical supply chain processes, vendors, materials, and operational handoffs.
- Mentor teams on governance discipline, process ownership, documentation quality, and structured problem-solving.
- Support hiring, onboarding, and capability development of governance, process excellence, and systems-focused supply chain talent.
Experience Requirements
- Minimum 25 years of relevant experience in supply chain, procurement, supply chain governance, process excellence, compliance, audit, or supply chain transformation.
- Strong preference for experience in semiconductor, electronics, solar, OSAT, or other high-technology manufacturing environments.
- Deep understanding of supply chain operating models in complex industrial or manufacturing setups, preferably including exposure to fab or fab-adjacent environments.
- Proven experience in governance-led transformation across procurement and supply chain functions.
- Demonstrated experience managing audits, compliance frameworks, policy deployment, and control-based process management.
- Strong experience in digital transformation and systems enablement within supply chain.
- Experience with SAP Ariba or similar source-to-pay / procurement platforms is strongly preferred.
- Experience working with senior leadership and cross-functional stakeholders in fast-scaling or high-accountability environments.
- Track record of setting up or maturing processes in organizations undergoing expansion, transformation, or formalization.
Functional expertise
- Supply chain governance and operating model design
- Procurement controls and compliance
- Internal controls and risk management
- Policy and SOP development
- Audit management and corrective-action closure
- Process excellence and continuous improvement
- Digitalization and workflow automation
- AI enablement in business processes
- Source-to-pay governance
- Supplier governance and onboarding controls
- Cross-functional stakeholder management
- KPI design, reporting, and review mechanisms
- Change management and organizational adoption
Industry knowledge - The candidate should bring strong working knowledge of the practical supply chain realities in one or more of the following:
- Semiconductor manufacturing
- Electronics manufacturing
- Solar manufacturing
- OSAT operations
- High-mix / high-value manufacturing
- Capital-intensive, quality-critical, or compliance-heavy industrial environments
Leadership Requirements
- Strong executive presence and ability to influence senior stakeholders.
- Ability to balance governance with business practicality.
- Mature judgment in handling ambiguity, escalation, compliance issues, and business trade-offs.
- Strong coaching capability and ability to build process discipline in teams.
- High ownership, structured thinking, and bias for closure.
Educational Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Supply Chain, Operations, Business, or a related field.
- MBA or advanced qualification in Supply Chain / Operations / Business / AI is preferred.
- Certifications in procurement, supply chain, quality, audit, process excellence, or digital transformation would be advantageous.
Preferred Attributes
- Strong knowledge of semiconductor fab or fab-support processes.
- Ability to connect policy and governance requirements to operational realities.
- Comfort with both strategic design and detailed execution review.
- Strong documentation, communication, and analytical skills.
- Ability to build scalable governance in a rapidly evolving organization.
- People developer and proven people management skills.
Skills Required
Compliance, process mining , Sap Ariba, Inventory Controls, Supplier Management, Process Excellence, Analytics, Procurement, Logistics, Audits, Risk Management
