The Role
Sources and purchases recyclable non-ferrous metals by identifying suppliers, inspecting and grading materials, negotiating prices, executing purchase orders, coordinating logistics, and ensuring compliance. Maintains supplier relationships and documentation, monitors market prices and landed costs, controls quality and profitability, prevents fraud, and prepares purchase, stock, pipeline, and market reports. The role requires regular travel to suppliers, industrial units, dismantlers, and stockyards.
Summary Generated by Built In
Reports to: Procurement Manager / Business Head
Location: Noida corporate office
Experience: 2–7 years in scrap buying, metal trading, recycling, or commodity sourcing
Travel: Regular travel to suppliers, industrial units, dismantlers, stockyards
Sources, evaluates, negotiates, and purchases recyclable non-ferrous metals (copper, aluminium, brass, bronze, zinc, lead, nickel alloys, insulated wires, radiators, motors, cables) at competitive prices while ensuring quality, compliance, supply continuity, and profitability.
Head/Manager – Metal Procurement - Primary Responsibility: Strategy, margins, supplier network, approvals, team performance
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Buyer/Procurement Executive - Primary Responsibility: Daily sourcing, quotations, supplier visits, purchase closure
Yard/Material Inspector - Primary Responsibility: Material ID, grading, weighing, contamination checks
Procurement Coordinator - Primary Responsibility: POs, documentation, logistics, MIS, payment follow-up
Commercial/Market Analyst - Primary Responsibility: Market prices, landed cost, competitor rates, profitability
• Sourcing: Identify, onboard, and develop suppliers (manufacturers, dismantlers, dealers, traders); maintain supplier database; build recurring supply.
• Inspection & grading: Verify grade/quantity/condition; classify material; coordinate with yard and quality teams.
• Pricing & negotiation: Track market prices; price on net landed cost/recovery; negotiate terms within approved margins; escalate high-value deals.
• Purchase execution: Prepare POs and agreements; coordinate logistics and weighment; verify documentation before dispatch approval.
• Quality & commercial control: Reconcile declared vs. received quality; apply transparent rejection/deduction rules; prevent billing fraud or rate manipulation.
• Compliance: Maintain supplier KYC/GST/PAN; verify authorisation to trade; ensure environmental/waste/tax compliance; reject unverified or suspicious material.
• Reporting: Daily purchase/rate/stock reports; live pipeline tracking; weekly market intelligence updates.
• Knowledge of non-ferrous scrap grades, metal identification, recovery/yield, and processing losses.
• Strong negotiation and supplier relationship management.
• Landed-cost and purchase-profitability calculation.
• Familiarity with commodity prices, regional scrap markets, GST/e-way bill documentation.
• Proficiency in Excel/ERP/procurement software; strong communication and field-verification skills; high integrity.
Skills Required
- 2-7 years of experience in scrap buying, metal trading, recycling, or commodity sourcing
- Knowledge of non-ferrous scrap grades and metal identification
- Knowledge of recovery, yield, and processing losses
- Strong negotiation and supplier relationship management skills
- Ability to calculate landed cost and purchase profitability
- Familiarity with commodity prices and regional scrap markets
- Familiarity with GST and e-way bill documentation
- Proficiency in Excel, ERP, or procurement software
- Strong communication and field-verification skills
- High integrity and ability to verify suppliers and materials
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The Company
What We Do
Attero is an India-based climate-technology company specializing in advanced recycling of electronic waste and lithium-ion batteries. It offers e-waste management, battery recycling, and eco-friendly disposal solutions while recovering valuable green metals and other resources from discarded materials. Attero advances sustainable resource recovery and helps reduce waste by applying deep-technology recycling to support a circular economy at industrial scale through its operations.
