Lead Sourcing

Job Description
Lead / Associate Manager- Operations
PFC Description
Plastics For Change has developed a sustainable sourcing platform connecting waste
collectors to global brands to ensure a steady supply of high-quality recycled material.
This fair-trade verified ethical sourcing platform aims to improve products' social and
environmental impact by creating efficient shared-value chains and increasing the quality
of recycled plastic. Plastics For Change provides the expertise to replace virgin plastic
with ethically sourced recycled plastic. Join us in our mission to create dignified
livelihoods and prevent ocean plastic by visiting www.plasticsforchange.org
Job Title Lead / Associate Manager- Operations (50% Field Work)
Location Kolkata and Chennai
Job Description
We are looking for a highly committed and passionate individual who believes in bringing
change in the informal recycling sector through community relations and capacity
building. This individual should be passionate about grass-root field work. We are looking
for people who share our values and are driven to create social and economic inclusion.
Duties and Key Responsibilities
Stakeholder Management:
1. Identifying, networking, mobilising and engaging key stakeholders across the
informal sector in plastic recycling industry to formal supply chain. Our key
stakeholders are Home Based Workers (HBW), Waste Pickers (WP), Itinerant Buyers
(IB), Van Units (VU), Dry Waste Collection Centre (DWCC), Waste Pickers
Community Leaders, Scrap Shops (SS), Wholesaler etc.
2. Enrolling and managing stakeholders on PFC platform.
3. Building trust with stakeholders to maintain strong working relationships.
4. Increasing plastic sourcing and supply from stakeholders by ensuring ethical
sourcing and fair price.
5. Facilitating management and client visits with stakeholders.
Capacity Building:
1. Conducting one-to-one capacity building to strengthen stakeholders working
capacity w.r.t PFC Standard Operating Procedures (SOP).
2. Conducting one-to-one CRM (mobile technology) training for stakeholders.
3. Creating awareness and sensitising stakeholders on various social/govt. schemes
and services, statutory compliances and policies with the help of NGO/Franchise
partners.




4. Facilitating stakeholder formalisation in the sector by enabling opening bank
accounts, PAN, ensuring statutory compliances, policies etc.
5. Intervention with scrapshop for behavioural change and implementing the social
additionality projects.
Aggregation Center/Facility Management:
1. Work with the facility supervisor and workers to ensure on time delivery of
consignments as per schedules.
2. Implement SoPs for the aggregation, segregation, QA and QC of plastic waste
stream.
3. Continuously improve SoPs to optimize performance based on the Lean
manufacturing principle.
4. Increase throughput per day per worker and yield rates by bringing individual
performance based models for workers.
5. Increasing plastic sourcing and supply from stakeholders by ensuring ethical
sourcing and fair price working closely with the sourcing associate.
6. Facilitate during audits, assessments, client visits and visits by HQ team.
7. To ensure site hygiene and cleanliness are maintained at all times as per required
standards.
8. Work closely with the Regional teams / other verticals to find new markets /
solutions for the rest of the stream.
9. Comply with requirements of deployment and sustaining sourcing charters from
clients and certification bodies
Reporting and Documentation:
1. Maintaining various due-diligence and other required documentation at
stakeholder level, managing, monitoring and reviewing it periodically.
2. Ensuring timely, concise and accurate reports on a daily, weekly and monthly
basis on prescribed formats.
3. Ensuring timely, concise and accurate CRM updates and also ensuring
stakeholders are updating it regularly.
4. Maintain case work and community work documents of stakeholders.
5. Help managers and teams to capture information from the field as and when
required.
General responsibilities:
1. Ensure professionalism at all times and demonstrate exemplary prioritisation of
workload skills.
2. Ensure that the PFC policies, SOPs and protocols are being adhered to at all levels
of the company.
3. Ensure strict adherence to data confidentiality and security.
4. Willingness to travel frequently, sometimes at short notice, including other places
as per need of project or company.
5. Work closely with PFC team and Partners.




Knowledge, Experience and Qualifications
● Graduate with 3+ years of field work experience in informal sector.
● Good understanding of social and environmental concepts and methods.
● Experience of being part of any program/project management or field work would
be an added advantage.
● Past Experience of working in the fields of Urban or Rural Development,
Environment, Community Relations / Interventions / Engagement, Plastics
Recycling, Waste Management will be helpful.
● Fluency in local language and moderate English working Knowledge.
● Sound understanding of informal sector and vulnerable communities
Skills
● Good interpersonal skills and ability to work in field alone.
● Open to new challenges.
● Good data management, documentation and reporting skills.
● Good computer skills MS Office and Working on CRM.
● Ability to work under pressure and prioritise tasks.
● Eye for detail.
● Able to learn new systems, methods, processes and procedures.
● Able to meet deadlines and produce quality outputs.
● Proactive and self motivated.
● Humility, honesty, transparency, integrity and ability to maintain confidentiality.
CTC/Compensation:
1. Competitive as per industry standards, including performance bonus, medical
insurance, and a fixed travel allowance.
Please apply to recruitment@plasticsforchange.com
Note: CVs are accepted only in PDF