Divisional Procurement Manager - Milk

Responsible for milk procurement at chilling centers and its efficient operations under the whole division including driving CSR activities, animal feed sales and long shelf life (LSL) product sales.

Key Deliverables:

1. Managing operations at chilling centers:

- Monitoring the operations at all CCs in the whole division, including collaborating with maintenance and quality departments as required.

- Ensuring milk procurement as per budgeted quantities across months, by effectively managing lean and flush periods.

- Building goodwill with farmers and agents through CSR activities like farmer meetings, veterinary camps, etc

- Monitoring payments to vendors and farmers through proper documentation with KYC and resolving any issues by coordinating with procurement accounts team.

2. Expansion, optimization and monitoring processes:

- Monitoring route vehicle timings and ensure optimization of routes to control transport cost.

- Managing establishments of new chilling centers at potential operating areas. Visiting all CCs in the division at least once a month for monitoring the functioning of the CC.

- Driving new initiatives like direct farmer procurement, feed sales, long shelf life products.

- Ensuring chilling centers are compliant with safety and statutory norms.

- Establishing necessary controls and random audits to inspect and minimize any malpractices across chilling centres.

3. General management:

- Increasing productivity and capacity utilization continuously across chilling centres.

- Preparing annual budget and analyzing monthly performance against budget.

- Analyzing and reporting performance across CCs on procurement, operational costs, and sales on a monthly basis.

- Managing the procurement team across division through continuous development and performance feedback.