freshOk - Procurement Lead

- Managing Fruits & Vegetables Category with Expertise Assortment Planning, DSD Vendor Management, Merchandising Planning & Replenishment, Supply Chain Management, and P&L Management.

- Knowledge of the overall category from a global & local perspective, including growing area, varieties, growing practices, consumption, pricing, importing countries, customer purchasing trends and packaging.

- Budgeting the Purchases to support sales, Special Discount Offer sales and Projecting the Volume the Volume drive-based Requirement keeping dump under control

- Margin Delivery Managing P&L of the category by focusing at TOP Line and Bottom Line of the category to ensure achieving Budgeted Margin of the Category.

- Merchandising Activity by Coordinating with Regional Sourcing and Ops Team to Develop Local Category Insight through Market analysis.

- Carrying out the Category Reviews with range review process and In Concern with Regional Operation Team. Store Staffs Training through Presentations, ensuring good Product Knowledge, Customer Relationships, Indenting, Product Placement, Product handling and Target Delivery's.

- Pricing Strategies, Planograming, and Indenting : Tracking Competitors Activities and Keeping abreast with latest Market trend and Requirements and Involved in analysis of sales and Trends there by fixing selling prices as well as by Visiting Local Markets to fix cost Prices.

- Closely Coordinate with Store Team on Execution of Display and Planogram to get best sales out of space. Training and Coordinating with Store Team on Indent.

- Hire, Train and develop a high-performance sourcing team. Set clear goals, incentive structure and targets and drive them effectively.