Manager - Sourcing & Operations - Fruits & Vegetable

We are building a sourcing team for our client who are into F&V (Fruits & Vegetable) category, have a multiple position across the line.

 Responsibilities:

- Strong value proposition for farmers

- Head the entire local direct farmer sourcing initiatives. This includes highly perishable and daily purchase products

- Build a sustainable and scalable sourcing network

- Own farmer happiness and the better livelihood for farming families

- Own fulfillment and pipeline building for local sourcing products

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

- 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

Required Skill-sets / Education:

- 3 to 5 years of strong sales experience from FMCG / Consumer durables / Agriculture and allied industries

- Solid understanding of sales fundamentals

- Thorough knowledge of Word, Excel and PowerPoint, MS Access is desirable

- Must have managed at least 5 direct reportees and large layered teams - Esp field sales team

- Proven people manager and team builder with references

- Good communication & presentations skills, ability to motivate the team to achieve targets, fostering a high level of team growth and contribution

- Exceptional problem-solving skills with a strong commitment to improving things every day

- Excellent eye for detail, able to deep dive and good problem-solving skills

- Ability to take decision based on sound logical arguments

- Self-starter/multi-tasker, confident, resourceful with good presentation skills