Category Head - Spices Business (8-27 yrs)

Category Head-Spices

Responsibilities:

- Bring together existing team nicely and harness their capabilities in the best way.

- Extract value from and grow existing product and customer base, idea will be to cross-sell as much as we can to make ourselves as useful to the customer as possible.

- Over time progress from whole spices into powders and value addition.

- Generate or lead strategic investment funnel for the company.

- Execution needs to be strong - credit risk, ops, quality etc.

- Integrate backward or forward in the space as needed.

Requirements:

- Core competence in procurement or processing or sales of 1 or more of the large spices such as chillies or seed spices or turmeric.

- Has held p&l responsibility for an extended period of time.

- Overseen a significant part of the end to end value chain of 1 or more products.

- Managed mid-sized to large teams.

- Interested in building/growing a business.

- Candidate has hunger to learn and grow themselves while growing the business.

- Should have strong network in the spice industry.

- Export experience is nice to have.

- Knowledge of powders and other value added products a nice to have.