Director - Purchase/Procurement - Rice Trading

Providing strategic leadership to the company's Agro commodity international trading business preferably in the following commodity groups:

Pulses (Chick Peas) - exports.

Oilseeds - Peanuts / Sesame

Basmati & Non-Basmati Rice - exports.

Animal Feed Ingredients (Corn, Soybean meal, Rapeseed meal) - exports.

- Devising appropriate hedging strategies to mitigate price risk in those commodities which are traded on national and/or international commodity exchanges.

- Rationalizing the commodity portfolio with the objective of building competencies and consolidating presence in a few select commodities.

- Building and mentoring a team of skilled commodity traders.

- Experience in international marketing.

- Assuming P&L responsibility to deliver an agreed post-tax ROCE.

- Growing trade in the above agro-commodities at an agreed growth rate.

- Devising appropriate hedging strategies to mitigate price risk in those commodities which are traded on national and/or international commodity exchanges.

- Rationalising the commodity portfolio with the objective of building competencies and consolidating presence in a few select commodities.

- Building and mentoring a team of skilled commodity traders.

- Preferably PG in Commerce / Finance / International Trade 12 to 15 years in international trading of which at least 5 years as profit center head of a medium to large international trading business.