General Manager - Strategy - Agri

General Manager - Strategy

Job Description :

Should have : MBA from a top notch B school with 7+ years of corporate strategy experience.

Areas of Responsibility :

Business Management :

- Plan and orchestrate work to ensure the senior executives priorities are met, organizational goals are achieved, and best practices are upheld

- Strategize and execute tactful initiatives as well as contribute with ideas for effectively scaling up the operations across the regions

- Foster a team environment by participating in decision making, information sharing and identifying opportunities for improvement.

- Build and implement SOPs to manage workflow and day to day operations

- Calculate the overall cost of procurement, including the cost of commodities, logistics, storage, government charges, and any ancillary cost; for various quantum of sale to the different destinations

- Ensuring Brand Management.

Cashflow Management :

- Monitor the execution of trades to ascertain cashflow availability for future purchases

- Initiate timely request for funds to the Finance Team to ensure availability of funds for making timely payments to traders/sellers

- Arrange for short-term funds when required, in consultation with the Finance Team

- Determine the foreign exchange exposure during transactions with foreign currencies

- Propose appropriate hedging option to finance team to reduce the risk of adverse price movements in the currencies during international transactions

- Reporting to Management / BoDStrengthen the Management

- Reporting by assessing and making available right information required for taking effective decision making

- Implement processes/systems to ensure timely submission of accurate data to the Director. Build in required controls for validating the data accuracy

- Ensure effective communication of the Director's directives, suggestions, messages to appropriate stakeholders. Ensure execution of the Director's directives through effective follow up and necessary support

- Conduct periodic reviews in absence of the Director and report the action items. Track the action items to closure within the given timeframe