Siddharth Mudrakol

1. Promoted to Global Commodity Manager while retaining regional commercial ownership of a USD 150M semiconductor and PCB purchasing portfolio. 2. Define and execute global commodity strategies for SoCs supporting infotainment, intelligent cockpit, connectivity, and ADAS platforms. 3. Lead global sourcing initiatives, supplier selection, executive negotiations, and long-term commercial agreements to improve cost competitiveness and supply resilience. 4. Drive cost optimization through strategic sourcing, bench marking, should-cost analysis, and semiconductor market intelligence. 5. Develop strategic supplier partnerships, performance governance, and risk mitigation plans to ensure long-term capacity and business continuity. 6. Monitor semiconductor market trends, technology roadmaps, geopolitical risks, and cost drivers to support sourcing strategy and executive decision-making. 7. Collaborate with Engineering, Quality, Manufacturing, Finance, and global procurement teams to support new product introductions, technology roadmaps, and supply chain resilience.

• Defined and executed sourcing strategies for SoCs, memory, and PCBs in automotive applications. • Leading supplier negotiations, focusing on benchmarking and cost optimization initiatives. • Monitored semiconductor market trends and technology roadmaps to enhance competitive advantage. • Supported risk management and supplier development for automotive-grade semiconductor solutions.

• Managing the Schaeffler Resistors category, overseeing a range of resistor products. • Developing sourcing strategies, negotiated prices with vendors, and conducted market research to expand supplier options. • Implementing a supplier performance evaluation process to enhance vendor dependability.

1. Leading the Category - Resistors with a multicultural team in a highly active, fast paced environment across multiple time zones 2. Performing sourcing, annual price and contract negotiations with electronic component suppliers including validity of prices, terms and conditions for all Vitesco plants worldwide 3. Supplier management in conjunction with cross-functional partners, such as R&D, Quality, and Supply Chain Management to select and develop the best suppliers

- Handling RFQ and RFI requests - Producing business intelligence - Collaborating with other departments to reduce cross-functional teams' procurement costs. Achievements: Completed development of a pricing tool; active participation in creating a "Master Database" to bring insightful factors together to create a value-adding service for internal stakeholders - successful development of a tool to drive the budget for the entire Category Cluster for the year 2022. Adding to this worked as Voluntary intern for additional 6 months.

Performing requirements analysis. Ensuring solutions meet business needs and requirements. Monitoring deliverables and ensuring timely completion of projects. Managing projects, developing project plans, and monitoring performance.

My responsibilities where managing workers on the Production Line, ensuring they all work together as a team and training the team of workers on safety and quality assurance protocols. Morning data analysis of plan Vs actual. To prioritize the customer priorities and communicate the decision makers. To prioritize the tooling requirement and give tooling plan for the month. Analysis of top contributor for Production Loss. (Machine, tool, etc.) Monthly Raw material inventory & Shortages review

Supervised production line workers, providing training on safety and quality protocols. Analyzed root causes of production losses and implemented corrective measures.

My major subjects in my Bachelor Operation Research, Design of machine Elements, Thermodynamics, Industrial Engineering

• Grades – 2.5 • Main Subjects o Production Technology o Operational Research

• Grades – 2.2 • Main Subjects o Supply Chain Management o Production execution and logistics • Master's thesis: An analysis of green and sustainable supply chain management in the German automotive industry