About udaan

UDAAN is about making business easy in India, about making B2B commerce convenient and efficient. We believe B2B is the new B2C in India. India has 50m+ SMBs, who form core of Indian economy and society. They are the entrepreneurial pulse of India. We believe internet is a great equalizing platform. We want to bring our energies together in bringing power of Internet to these millions of entrepreneurs.

Our portfolio spans across Lifestyle, Food and Electronics with Food growing at a break neck pace over the last 3 years.

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 - Sugar

- 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

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