Manager - Sourcing - Pulses Segment - Agri

About our client:

Our client is a B2B trade platform for small & medium businesses in India. It brings traders, wholesalers, distributors, retailers and manufacturers in India on to a single platform.

Key Responsibilities:

- Lead sourcing engagements across relevant category to enable new business initiatives to launch and scale rapidly

- Identifying the Right Vendors from a long term strategic point of View, Maintaining Relationships with them & developing their capabilities to ensure we meet our Category Strategic objectives

- Identify Key Portfolio gaps and finding the right vendors to fill them across cities in India

- Responsible for functional areas such as buying, pricing, inventory management and operations to drive the performance of vendor partners

- Managing the fundamentals of sourcing and supplier engagement activities including analysis of spends, contract analysis, bid evaluation, negotiations, and supplier consolidation

- Establish long term partnerships with key vendor partners for the group of vendors handled

- Support the launches of new programs, categories and features.

Functional & Competencies:

- Deep Category Knowledge - The individual needs to have in depth knowledge of category including grading and full cycle from Mandi to Store and how market players make money in each stage.

- Result orientation: The role is required to work on deliver on daily numbers, short-term goals and long-term milestones set by business and efficacy. Meeting these milestones would be critical to create success.

- Problem solving: The role needs the individual to be able to solve for a given business problem in sometimes an ambiguous state and with multiple data streams impacting decision making

- Data driven / analytical: The role requires the individual to be comfortable in processing and analyzing volume of multiple data streams to enable meeting company targets.

- Collaborative skills: The role requires the incumbent to work closely and coordinate with the Internal and external teams to create success. She/he should be able to seamlessly navigate these relationship dynamics in a high growth, young, agile business environment.

Qualifications and Experience:

- Minimum 5 Plus year experience in Sourcing of commodity mentioned

- Should Have a strong miller network ( Both Modern Trade and General Trade focused Millers ) which can be onboarded on Udaan Platform

- Should be able to analyze and Formulate the product specifications as per the market/city

Requirement :

- An agriculture-focused MBA from a reputed college like IRMA, etc is not necessary but will be considered a plus