Location: GEC, KTEC, Chennai
Designation: Associate Supply Manager
Total Experience: 5-8 Years
Qualification: University degree (B.E) in Mechanical or Electrical.
Job Summary:
In this role, you will ensure that material deliverables are on time, profitable, high quality, and meets customer expectations. A collaborative and customer-focused way of working together with our sales companies (Front line) is your way to successful project execution.
Your main responsibilities:
· Using a feasible solution to complete the supply project safely, on time and within budget.
· Verify the received order information, steering order bound engineering and confirming the order to FL.
· Manage project design quality planning, sourcing planning and logistics planning.
· Supply chain scheduling across KONE.
· Supply project variation and scope management.
· Receiving and processing clarification requests from FL, involving internal and external interest groups if necessary
· Effective collaboration and communication with and between all stakeholders
· Composing, collecting and distributing necessary technical information to FL.
· Informing FL about any deviations in delivery operations.
· Providing support for Supply Line claims.
· Making sourcing decisions for main components.
· Confirming material delivery times and transfer prices to FL
· Identifying and facilitating project related change management activities.
Pre-requisites:
· Strong collaboration, communication, and cross-cultural skills
· Experience in working in a global matrix organization is a benefit.
· Customer focused way of thinking and working.
· Willingness and ability to take responsibility, solve problems and make decisions.
· Values clearly defined procedures and guidelines in work
· Consistently delivers work of high quality.
· Drive and persistence to reach set goals.
· Good business negotiation & communication skills and able to professionally interact with Global stake holders, presentation skills are an asset.
· Good IT skills, e.g. in MS Office tools, SAP skills are an asset.
· Good spoken and written in English is a must, other languages are seen as a benefit.
· Willingness to travel worldwide and flexibility in working times due to time difference between global projects functions.
· Working knowledge in any project management tools/ MS-projects
· Project management experience will be added advantage.
· Elevator / Escalator technical competences are a benefit
· Strong innovation, continuous improvement, and development capabilities
At KONE, we are focused on creating an innovative and collaborative working culture where we value the contribution of each individual. Employee engagement is a key focus area for us and we encourage participation and the sharing of information and ideas. Sustainability is an integral part of our culture and the daily practice. We follow ethical business practices and we seek to develop a culture of working together where co-workers trust and respect each other and good performance is recognized. In being a great place to work, we are proud to offer a range of experiences and opportunities that will help you to achieve your career and personal goals and enable you to live a healthy and balanced life.
At KONE, we believe in fair and competitive pay that recognizes performance and supports employee engagement. Our approach covers a comprehensive total rewards package, including both financial and non-financial benefits. We are committed to fostering a culture of fairness, respect, equity, diversity, and inclusion.
Read more on https://kone.com/global/en/careers.html
Skills Required
- 5-8 years of total experience
- University degree in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering (B.E.)
- Strong collaboration, communication, and cross-cultural skills
- Customer-focused approach
- Ability to take responsibility, solve problems, and make decisions
- Good business negotiation and communication skills
- Good spoken and written English
- Good IT skills, including MS Office; SAP skills are an asset
- Working knowledge of project management tools or MS Project
- Willingness to travel worldwide and work flexibly across time zones
- Project management experience
- Elevator or escalator technical competencies
- Experience in a global matrix organization
- Additional language skills
Kone Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is considered competitive across many roles and markets, with field positions sometimes benefiting from overtime and strong union scales. Feedback suggests base compensation is often a relative positive even when other factors vary.
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Retirement Support — Retirement programs, including 401(k) and in some regions pension or annuity structures, are consistently highlighted as strong. Feedback suggests these elements meaningfully enhance the overall package.
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Healthcare Strength — Core health coverage is viewed as comprehensive, commonly including medical, dental, and vision options. Feedback suggests a global well‑being framework and EAP resources further reinforce health-related support.
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What We Do
At KONE, our mission is to improve the flow of urban life. This means understanding urbanization and, together with our partners and customers, helping cities to become better and more sustainable places to live. As a global leader in the elevator and escalator industry, KONE provides elevators, escalators and automatic building doors, as well as solutions for maintenance and modernization to add value to buildings throughout their life cycle. Through more effective People Flow®, we make people's journeys safe, convenient and reliable, in taller, smarter buildings. Headquartered in Helsinki, Finland, we operate in more than 60 countries around the world, employ over 60,000 people and serve 550,000 customers. In 2022, KONE had annual sales of EUR 10.9 billion. KONE class B shares are listed on the Nasdaq Helsinki Ltd. in Finland.
