InI Farms - Senior Lead - Procurement - Fruits

We are hiring Senior Lead- Procurement (Fruits)

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

2. Stock planning - Day cover, Inventory corrections.

3. Managing the vendor and Farmer Sourcing for Fresh Fruits and Vegetables.

4. To play a pivotal role in directing the end-to-end supply chain and leveraging existing infrastructure to deliver year-round demands.

5. 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.

6. Own fulfilment and pipeline building for local sourcing products.

7. Drive a 10-20 member team to build strong farmer relationships.

8. Hire, Train and develop a high-performance sourcing team.

9. Set clear goals, incentive structure and targets and drive them effectively.

10. Improve the productivity of the sourcing team by identifying and filling the current training gaps and performance management systems.

11. Build a sustainable and scalable sourcing network.

12. Own farmer happiness and a better livelihood for farming families and strong evangelist of the value proposition for farmers.

13. Explore new farming cluster for around the year supply at competitive market prices

14. Develop a high-performance sourcing team.

15. Handling F&V Category Management, with Expertise in Assortment Planning, Supply Chain Management with hands on experience in driving P&L