Profit Center Head - Cotton Business - Agro-Commodity Industry

Profit Center Head (Senior Level) - Cotton Business with a leading MNC in Agro-Commodity Industry

Description : Current assignment is in West Africa for Cotton Business entails full Management (Corporate affairs) Business P&L responsibility and team management to Marketing and Sales and overall Profitability Management of Cotton Commodity.

Job Responsibilities:

Achievement of targets / P&L delivery / Resource Productivity / Strategic delivery

The incumbent will also manage 130-140 cotton growers for B2B business segment. has to manage frequent relationship with these growers. Has to manage Multi commodity Retail environment.

- Volume / Profitability / Cycle time / Costs control- Directs and Indirect/ Exposure control

- New Customer and Market development- Identification of Product Potential (in Global Portfolio) w.r.t to Regional landscape (Market Potential and legal/logistics Framework) and aligning Market requirements with Supply chain requisites with respective Product Desk

Operations, Business Development, Sales & Marketing:

- Driving Country Structure and Operations for 100% Subsidiary Operations in line with Legal Framework of Country Regulations

- Budgets setting and Review- Volume, Profitability, Costing, Overheads with respect to P&L

- Managing customer relationships/Negotiation/Pricing / Contracts/Documentation flow

- Management of overall trading book and Contract fulfillment

Market Intelligence & Analysis: Competitor Activity / Pricing / Trends / Market shares:

- Bench-marking with key competitors in respective product and Segment Categories

- Positional Planning with Respective product desks and independent trading with 3rd Party/Brokers

Risk Management & Control:

- Currency / Price Position / Counter-party exposures