Head Procurement - Fruits & Vegetables
- Knowledge of the overall category from a global perspective, including growing area, varieties, growing practices, consumption, pricing, importing countries, customer purchasing trends and packaging.
- Stock planning ; Day cover, Inventory corrections.
- Managing the vendor and Farmer Sourcing for Fresh Fruits and Vegetables.
- To play a pivotal role in directing the end-to-end supply chain and leveraging existing infrastructure to deliver year-round demands.
- Establishing standards with regards to quality, delivery and pricing
- Head the entire local direct farmer sourcing initiatives. This includes highly perishable and daily purchase products.
- Own fulfilment and pipeline building for local sourcing products.
- Drive a 10 to 20 member team to build strong farmer relationships.
- Hire, Train and develop a high-performance sourcing team.
- Set clear goals, incentive structure and targets and drive them effectively.
- Improve the productivity of the sourcing team by identifying and filling the current training gaps and performance management systems.
- Build a sustainable and scalable sourcing network.
- Own farmer happiness and a better livelihood for farming families and strong evangelist of the value proposition for farmers.
- Explore new farming cluster for around the year supply at competitive market prices
- Develop a high-performance sourcing team.
- Handling F&V Category Management, with Expertise in Assortment Planning, Supply Chain Management with hands on experience in driving P&L.
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