Head - Procurement - Fruits & Vegetables

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.