Senior Category Manager - Staples/Rice & Flour

Job Description:

- Sourcing Strategy & Origin source location development to make the right Supply chain across Agri commodities and to develop quality suppliers

- Monitoring development program for Suppliers and training them for future business

- Bringing right & effective systems and process within Procurement function for better productivity and efficiency.

- Supply Chain Management - Planning & Replenishment of products on a day-to-day basis.

- Responsible for Product P/L- To deliver the category financial metrics of Sales, Margins, Inventory turns and managing Item count. Also managing volatility & monitoring Price movement, Market value at Risk and Quality of Inventory.

- Bottom Line responsibility- Managing Cost centre by collaborative approach with the Cross functional team and Supplier partners

- Frequent mmarket working with Sales team to make knowledge transfer in terms of Products, Quality / Grades/ Specs to build the trust & confidence

- To Ensure minimal conflict within the team on prices and Quality by fixing price gap on the ground, Finalization of relevant Marka/ Brand for relevant Categories

- Improve Working Capital efficiency, negotiate higher Vendor Credit days, Lowering DOH by MOQ reduction, Control and better Ordering mechanism

- Team development & management