Business Development Manager-EPR; Non Ferrous Metals

Position: Business Development Manager-EPR(Non Ferrous Metals)
Location: Noida Sector 27

1. Department Purpose
The Non-Ferrous Metal Buying Team is responsible for sourcing, evaluating, negotiating, and purchasing recyclable non-ferrous metals at competitive prices while maintaining quality, compliance, supply continuity, and profitability. Typical materials include copper, aluminium, brass, bronze, zinc, lead, nickel alloys, insulated wires, radiators, motors, cables, and other metal-bearing scrap.

2. Suggested Team Structure
Position:  Manager – Metal Procurement
Primary Responsibility:  Procurement strategy, margins, supplier network, approvals, and team performance
Senior Buyer:  High-value supplier accounts, pricing, negotiations, and volume planning
Buyer/Procurement Executive:  Daily sourcing, quotations, supplier visits, and purchase closure
Yard/Material Inspector:  Material identification, grading, weighing, contamination checks, and quality reports
Procurement Coordinator:  Purchase orders, documentation, logistics coordination, MIS, and payment follow-up
Commercial/Market Analyst:  Market prices, landed cost, competitor rates, and profitability analysis

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Job Description:

Buyer – Non-Ferrous Metals

Job title:

Buyer / Procurement Executive – Non-Ferrous Metals
Department:  Procurement / Commercial

Reports to:

Procurement Manager or Business Head

Location:

Recycling plant, collection yard, or corporate office

Experience:

Approximately 2–7 years in scrap buying, metal trading, recycling, foundry, manufacturing procurement, or commodity sourcing

Education:

Graduate degree; technical or commercial qualification preferred
Travel:  Regular travel to suppliers, industrial units, dismantle rs, stockyards, and collection points

3.1 Supplier Development and Sourcing

• Identify and onboard suppliers of copper, aluminium, brass, zinc, lead, cables, motors, radiators, alloys, and other recyclable metal materials.

• Develop relationships with manufacturers, engineering companies, auto-component units, electrical and cable companies, demolition contractors.

• Maintain a supplier database with material category, location, monthly volume, payment terms, credit history, and compliance status.

• Generate recurring supply from existing vendors and reduce dependence on a limited number of suppliers.

• Conduct supplier visits and understand generation, segregation, storage, and dispatch processes.
3.2 Material Inspection and Grading

• Inspect incoming material and verify declared grade, quantity, and condition.

• Identify mixed, contaminated, insulated, oxidised, wet, oil-contaminated, or non-conforming material.

• Check recovery potential for complex or mixed scrap before finalising the purchase price.

• Coordinate with yard, quality, laboratory, and production teams for sampling and recovery assessment.

• Classify material correctly as high-grade, commercial-grade, mixed, or low-recovery material.
3.3 Pricing and Negotiation

• Monitor market prices for copper, aluminium, brass, zinc, and other relevant commodities.

• Calculate purchase prices after considering recovery, processing cost, freight, taxes, handling loss, rejection risk, and expected selling price.

• Negotiate rates, quantity, quality tolerances, payment terms, loading conditions, and delivery schedules.

• Purchase material within approved rate and margin guidelines.

• Escalate exceptional or high-value transactions for management approval.

• Evaluate recoverable metal value and net landed cost rather than relying only on gross weight.
3.4 Purchase Execution

• Prepare quotations, purchase orders, rate confirmations, and supplier agreements.

• Coordinate vehicle placement, loading, route planning, weighment, and delivery to the plant or yard.

• Verify weighbridge slips, invoices, e-way bills, tax documents, and dispatch records.

• Ensure that no vehicle is dispatched without approved commercial terms and required documentation.

• Coordinate with accounts for payment processing and resolve quantity, quality, or deduction disputes.
3.5 Quality and Commercial Control

• Compare supplier declaration with actual receipt quality.

• Record shortages, excess moisture, contamination, attachments, and grade deviations.

• Implement transparent rejection and deduction rules.

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