Assistant Director - Sourcing - Retail/FMCG

- Develop and enhance sourcing strategies for all of more than 1500 SKUs ranging from groceries to disposables to fixed assets ensuring quality and lowest costs across geographies

- Developing vendors across India to fuel Chaayos rapid expansion plans

- Drive COGS Saving initiatives

- Handling Vendor Escalations from Fulfillment team

- Develop In-depth understanding of each category and create annual buying plans/strategies

- Vendor Engagement, Defining Share of Business and Vendor Categorization, Vendor felicitation

- Driving sourcing for New SKUs

- Handling even purchases for low frequency, large strategic categories like Ripple Cups, Tea leaves

- Protecting Business from Single Vendor scenarios - Executing multi vendor strategy, protecting business from price and quality shocks - executing contracts based on price, quality and fulfilment parameters

- Projects Capex control, projects Vendor Onboarding as per defined criteria, Projects Billing and Capex closure

- Fixed Assets Sourcing - including Total cost of ownership

- Developing local level sourcing - Reducing inter-city logistics

- Industry Cost Bench marking

Functional Skills

- In-depth knowledge of nuances of sourcing diverse categories including agricultural produce, packaging and fixed assets

- Great negotiation skill

- Should be methodical in approaching problems

- Problem Solver

- Good understanding of nuances of legal agreements

- Experienced in contract manufacturing

- Good with numbers