Manager – Supply Chain Planning & Supplier Operations

Job Description –Manager – Supply Chain Planning & Supplier Operations

Department: Supply Chain Management

Location: Pune

About Spiro Spiro is building the operating system for electric mobility across Africa - spanning battery swapping infrastructure, fleet operations, energy commerce, and CRM - live across nine markets (Nigeria, Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda, Tanzania, Morocco, Benin, Togo, and Cameroon). Backed by $200+M in funding, we're working on top-notch, cutting-edge technology to solve problems at genuine IoT, fintech, and mobility scale - real-time data pipelines, connected hardware, and platforms that run physical infrastructure, not just dashboards. We build systems designed to scale to billions of events a day and over 1 million transactions a day, and engineered for 99.999% uptime.

We're looking for exceptional engineers and leaders to join us in Pune or Bangalore to help build this platform. This isn't a "big company problems, big company headcount" environment - you'll own systems end-to-end, with a bar for technical rigor set by experience at top product tech companies, but a working style built for a company still being built.

Position Summary

Lead end-to-end supply chain planning for overseas direct materials and CKD kits, ensuring seamless supplier onboarding, production ramp-up, order planning, material availability and cross-functional execution. The role requires strong experience in supply planning, supplier coordination, ERP systems, advanced Excel-based data management, and analytical reporting.

Key Responsibilities

• Own supply chain planning for overseas direct materials, CKD kits and critical components.
• Drive supplier onboarding, qualification and readiness in collaboration with Quality, Engineering and Manufacturing.
• Lead supplier production ramp-up and capacity planning to support new product introductions and volume scale-up.
• Manage demand planning, supply planning, purchase order planning and order execution to ensure uninterrupted production.
• Monitor supplier schedules, shipment readiness and material flow to ensure on-time availability.
• Coordinate closely with Planning, Manufacturing, Logistics, Finance and Quality teams.
• Track purchase orders, inventory, open orders and supply risks; proactively resolve shortages and delays.
• Manage import coordination, shipment tracking and documentation with logistics partners.
• Maintain accurate ERP master data and supplier records.
• Develop MIS dashboards and reports using advanced Excel, including data consolidation, pivot tables, lookups and large dataset analysis.
• Present supply chain performance updates to leadership using PowerPoint.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Supply Chain or Operations.

• MBA (Operations/Supply Chain) preferred.

Experience

• Minimum 15 years of experience in Supply Chain Management, Supply Planning or Procurement Operations.
• Strong experience in supplier onboarding, supplier ramp-up and production readiness.
• Experience managing order planning, purchase order management, material planning and supply execution.
• Experience working with international suppliers, preferably across China, Southeast Asia or similar manufacturing hubs.
• Experience in automotive, EV, industrial manufacturing or high-volume assembly operations.

Technical Skills

• Supply chain planning and material planning
• Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) exposure
• Supplier onboarding and supplier performance management
• Order planning and purchase order management
• Inventory planning and replenishment
• Import coordination and shipment tracking
• ERP systems (SAP/Dynamics or equivalent)
• Advanced Microsoft Excel (Pivot Tables, Power Query, XLOOKUP/VLOOKUP, dashboards, large data management)
• PowerPoint and Microsoft Word

Key Competencies

• Analytical and data-driven decision making
• Strong planning and execution capability
• Cross-functional collaboration
• Attention to detail
• Problem solving
• Ownership and accountability
• Excellent communication skills

KPIs

• Material availability
• Supplier On-Time Delivery
• Order fulfilment adherence
• Planning accuracy
• Inventory optimization
• Open PO ageing
• MIS accuracy and timeliness
• Supplier ramp-up readiness

Why Spiro

• Real infrastructure, real stakes: your systems run physical battery swap stations and vehicle fleets, not just dashboards.
• We're looking for exceptional engineers and leaders - the technical bar of a top product tech company, without the bureaucracy - you'll make decisions and see them shipped in weeks, not quarters.
• A genuinely hard, genuinely interesting problem space: distributed IoT, real-time data at scale, multi-market operations, and emerging-market infrastructure constraints all at once, built on top-notch, modern technology.

Our Footprint: Nigeria, Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda, Tanzania, Morocco, Benin, Togo, Cameroon.

Spiro is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate all candidates based on merit, without regard to race, gender, religion, nationality, or any other protected status.