Vice President/Assistant Vice President - Sourcing - Startup

- The role conducts ongoing evaluation of operational systems and processes to maximize procurement effectiveness, and manages an end-to-end view of operations to help increase margins through operational excellence without compromising customer or consumer satisfaction.

- Identifies, evaluates, and capitalizes on global opportunities to reduce sourcing and purchasing costs by negotiating and establishing contracts that improve the Company's buying patterns.

- Manages a group of sourcing and procurement professionals with overall responsibility of consistently achieving target pricing and other metrics.

- Develops senior stakeholder relationships within product innovation (NPD) and marketing functions to establish business needs and develop strategy for solutions.

- Optimizes the flow of goods from suppliers to manufacturing (primarily 3rd party manufacturers), and from manufacturing to customers through segmentation, maximized planning, and the application of lean principles.

- Assists in the launch of new products on time by working cross functionally and using a design-to-value approach that integrates consumer needs, competitive intelligence, and supplier insights into the supply chain, as well as minimize finished goods and product obsolescence.

- Coordinates supply chain management reporting and measures/tracks supply chain KPI's.

- Evaluates and builds manufacturing networks that are flexible, responsive, innovative, and resilient.

- Identifies, evaluates, defines, tests and implements systems, processes and reporting improvements for the procurement function in ERP and other systems in order to help hedge and minimize the volatility of costs, material, demand, and exchange rates.

- Leads meetings and training events to enhance productivity, improve employee effectiveness, and meet business objectives such as reductions in inventory, increasing unit fill rate, improving reporting accuracy and score-carding.

- Assumes a key supporting role in acquisition or divestiture activity.

- Assists with reporting and budgeting initiatives.

- Candidate should be form Agri product, FMCG, Agritech industry.

Qualifications: Candidate from IIT/IIM with at least 5+years Exp in Startup culture

- Core Competencies:

- Supplier Relationship Management

- Supplier Risk Management

- Strategic Sourcing

- Supplier Rationalization

- Category Management

- Spend Analysis

- Contract Lifecycle Management

- Managed Staffing

- Supplier Diversity

- Budget Planning

- Outsourcing

- RFP

- Negotiations.

- Recognized ability to reduce cost, eliminate waste, streamline operations, and comprise solutions.

- Ability in developing strategic and collaborative relationships with suppliers and internal customers at all levels of an organization.

- Possess a strong passion for customer service, integration of sustainability programs, environmental awareness, gaining buy-in for new ideas.

- Able to effectively manage project schedules and budgets.

- Knowledge of strategic sourcing methodologies, contract negotiation expertise and project management.