Job Purpose

This position will lead all aluminium scrap purchase, sourcing strategy and aluminium recycling solutions specific to the region. This includes sourcing from all scrap dealers, customer scrap and developing yards to collect and process aluminium scrap. This position will also be responsible for income generated from scrap traded and sale of any process scrap generated from cleaning/sorting including dust, copper, brass, etc. from yards. Individual maintains a strong network and relationship to have in-depth understanding of regional market dynamics, supply/demand and pricing. Individual is responsible to meet the budgeted cost and volume targets for the region including the mix of post-industrial and post-consumer scrap. The role should also develop local partnerships for scrap collection, processing and transport.

Key Result Areas/Accountabilities

Safety

• Drive adherence to safety standard by all scrap suppliers, aggregators, and yards.
• Ensure safe handling, loading/unloading, and transportation of scrap to prevent injuries, spills or equipment damage.
• Conduct safety audits of yards and collection centers.
• Conduct safety inductions and refreshers for sourcing teams, key suppliers, and transporters.
• Drive safety awareness through BBSO based safe practices.

Sustainability

• Ensure that scrap is sourced from ethical, legal, and environmentally compliant sources.
• Drive enrichment of sourcing mix by increasing the proportion of post-consumer and closed-loop scrap.
• Drive end-to-end compliance, supplier audits and transparency by ensuring reliable sustainability data for disclosures and adherence to regulatory, certification and reporting norms at all sourcing locations.
• Engage effectively with the management, regulators, communities, suppliers, and customers.
• Ensure timely recording of data in terms of price trends, vendor performance, logistics, and quality.

Cash

• Optimize working capital requirement for the region by optimizing inventory, increasing payable days to vendors, timely movement of scrap and sale of by-products from yards.
• Lead negotiation and finalization of long-term contracts and agreements including commercial terms.
• Drive initiatives to reduce total procurement cost and improve cash savings through better negotiation, process efficiency, and market timing.
• Ensure all scrap purchases are hedged in a timely manner.
• Drive use of digital tools to track cash outflow related to procurement, supplier payments, and logistics.

Cost

• Achieve budgeted volumes within approved/budgeted purchase pricing.
• Leverage supplier relationships, existing customers, market intelligence, price benchmarking, quality and volume commitments to drive scrap sourcing at competitive rates.
• Purchase scrap based on input mix to balance cost and production requirements.
• Regularly benchmark global and regional scrap prices to stay competitive.
• Optimize freight modes, route planning, loading efficiency & logistics to control inbound logistics costs.

Customer Centricity

• Collaborate with internal/ external stakeholders (plant, tolling partner, customers, purchase, finance, primary sales, downstream business) for efficient scrap sourcing from scrap dealers and customers.
• Lead development of close-loop customer solutions in the region.
• Source diverse types of scrap to support custom alloys, low-carbon aluminium, or other differentiated products based on customer needs.
• Drive initiatives in the region to promote Hindalco in sustainable recycling and circular economy solutions.
• Lead supply of desired quality scrap from the region to downstream operations.

Systems / Process / People

• Leverage Hindalco systems, support in development of digital tools and drive implementation in scrap sourcing and yard operations in the region.
• Optimize scrap sourcing across yards, collection centre, customers and direct purchases from scrap dealers.
• Support development and adherence to standardized operating procedures (SOPs) for scrap procurement, quality inspection, and logistics coordination.
• Develop dashboards and reports to track KPIs such as cost per ton, scrap mix ratio, and vendor contribution.
• Timely review and update KPI and critical performance parameters for the region.

Develop new systems and share know-how with other regions to build a continuous improvement culture. Team building, develop capabilities in negotiation and scrap vendor mapping and mentoring.