Responsibilities:

- Will be accountable to develop and grow the category, shaping the overall direction, supply plan and investment strategy. You must be familiar with 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

- This role demands an ability to react quickly to changing conditions, a strong business acumen, and a visionary, entrepreneurial approach to develop a robust strategy for the category, and identify opportunities. You'll play a pivotal role in directing the end-to-end supply chain and leveraging a solid infrastructure to deliver year-round programs.

- 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.

- Manage and lead supply and commodity risk strategy and mitigation plans for vegetable and Fruits and produce sub-categories, including accountability for coverage strategy and responsible for category's ingredient items for budgeting process as part of the annual operating plan (AOP).

- Drive a 10 - 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.

Requirements:

- 6 to 8 years of strong sales experience from F&V/ Agriculture and allied industries.

- Solid understanding of sales fundamentals.

- Thorough knowledge of Word, Excel

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

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