Head - Supply Chain - Modular Construction

This is a role with a Leading EPC organization in a mission-critical infrastructure space. Reporting to: Business Head Modular Construction Vertical. Role Purpose: Moving away from transactional purchasing, the Supply Chain Lead will establish a highly strategic, industrialized procurement ecosystem capable of supporting predictable, rapid factory manufacturing schedules across multiple regions. Summary: - Strategic Frameworks: Negotiate multi-year corporate framework agreements and secure factory capacity reservations with major global and regional MEP OEMs (e.g., switchgear, chillers, generators). - Industrialized Procurement: Transition the organization away from traditional project-by-project buying into programmatic, productized procurement. - JIT Pipeline Management: Establish Just-In-Time (JIT) vendor pipelines feeding the prefabrication factories, managing long-lead item risks across India, ME, and Africa. Key Responsibilities: - Own end-to-end supply chain planning and execution for modular/PPVC projects. - Design and manage the vendor ecosystem for module fabrication - make judgment calls on vendor consolidation. - Coordinate just-in-time delivery from multiple component vendors into a single integrated module. - Plan and manage oversized/out-of-gauge cargo logistics - crane capacity and availability, maximum shipment size by road, route planning for transport (including runs of 500+ km), and building delivery estimates from first-hand experience rather than theoretical benchmarks. - Act as the on-ground SME for prefabrication/modular methodology - advise on what's practically executable, not just technically ideal. - Build out a supporting team as needed; if the required specialization isn't available in-house, identify and bring in the right people. - Partner with the parallel non-modular EPC supply chain function to ensure alignment where relevant. Ideal Candidate Profile: Core requirement: Direct experience with prefabrication / modular volumetric construction / PPVC methodology, ideally including: 1. Vendor orchestration decisions in a multi-vendor fabrication environment. 2. Working knowledge of crane operations, lifting capacities, and oversized/ODC road transport constraints. 3. Comfort operating as an individual contributor with SME authority, not just a manager. Strong adjacent backgrounds: - Offshore/onshore module fabrication - oil & gas, offshore rigs (large structures built onshore, then transported/installed). - Large-scale solar or wind farm construction (oversized components, remote-site logistics). - Pre-engineered building (PEB) manufacturing - most data centers today are built this way. - Heavy engineering / shipbuilding fabrication yards.