Wiring Harness Sourcing Specialist

Role

: Wiring Harness Sourcing Specialist

Department:

Strategic Sourcing

Location:

Bengaluru, India

Experience:

5-8 Years

• Your Team:
• You’ll be working with the Strategic Sourcing Team.
• Our philosophy:
• Break. Believe. Build.
• Break stuff, break assumptions, break the thumb rule.
• Believe in the team, the process, and through failures.
• Build fast, build passionately, build to simplify.
• Own it like you mean it.
• What you’ll do:
• Commodity strategy: build and run the wire harness commodity strategy, covering supplier base, dual sourcing and cost roadmap.
• - New part development: manage RFQs, technical and commercial evaluation, supplier nomination, and development through proto, PPAP and SOP, working with design, electrical engineering, quality and program teams.
• - Should-cost and negotiation: prepare harness cost breakdowns (copper and cable cost by length and gauge, terminals, connectors, accessories, crimping, assembly and test labour, EOL testing, overheads, profit). Lead fact-based negotiations and annual price reviews.
• - Copper and RM indexation: put copper-indexed pricing mechanisms in place and manage them, then validate supplier claims for raw-material price variation.
• - Supplier development: assess and audit harness suppliers for capability, process control (crimp height and pull test, crimp cross-section, EOL/continuity testing, error-proofing), capacity and quality systems. Drive corrective actions and improvements.
• - Connector and terminal sourcing: manage sourcing and lead times for branded connectors and terminals (TE, Amphenol, Molex, Aptiv, Yazaki, JST and others), including alternates and approved-equivalent strategies.
• - VA/VE: find cost-reduction opportunities through routing optimisation, wire gauge and material changes, connector standardisation and design-for-manufacture.
• - Supply continuity: track capacity, lead times and risks for long-lead and single-source components. Support ramp-ups and engineering change implementation.
• - Commercial and documentation: manage POs, schedule agreements, purchase agreements, tooling (crimp applicators, assembly boards, test fixtures) and supplier performance scorecards.What you’ll bring:

Technical knowledge required

- Wire harness design and manufacturing: cutting, stripping, crimping, ultrasonic welding, soldering, sealing, taping, sleeving, conduits, overmoulding and formboard assembly - HV and LV harnesses, including high-voltage EV cables, shielding, HV connectors and HVIL - Cable specs and standards: ISO 6722, ISO 19642, LV 112, USCAR-21, IPC/WHMA-A-620 - Reading harness drawings, 2D formboard layouts, schematics and BOMs - Harness testing and validation: continuity, hipot, insulation resistance, pull test, crimp cross-section analysis - Quality systems: APQP, PPAP, PFMEA, control plans, IATF 16949

Education qualification

• Experience: 5–8 years in wire harness, either at a Tier-1 wire harness manufacturer (in engineering, NPD+Costing or sales) or in commodity sourcing at an automotive or EV OEM - Education: B.E./B.Tech in Electrical, Electronics, Mechanical or Automobile Engineering
• What matters to us:
• - Strong commodity expertise, credible in technical discussions with suppliers and design teams - Strong costing and negotiation skills - Structured, data-driven approach. Advanced Excel. ERP familiarity.
• - Good stakeholder management across engineering, quality, program and finance teams - Willing to travel to supplier sites
• About Us:
• Exponent is building the energy stack powering commercial EVs in India. Our proprietary battery and charging technology enables safe, reliable 15-minute rapid charging while delivering a 3,000-cycle battery life warranty using standard lithium-ion cells. Today, our platform powers high-utilisation commercial vehicles - from three-wheelers to intercity buses, making electric mobility rapid, more reliable and more affordable than petroleum.
• Founded by Arun Vinayak (Founding Partner & Former Chief Product Officer, Ather Energy), Exponent is a 250+ member team of passionate builders solving some of the toughest engineering challenges in energy.
• If solving hard engineering problems across mechanics, thermal systems, power electronics, manufacturing, and the charging network, while staying obsessed with customer experience excites you, we'd love to build with you.