Suminter India Organics - General Manager - Procurement/Supply Chain (10-15 yrs)

Designation: General Manager - Supply Chain

Job Description:

1. Origin development Develop long term strategy for each origin based on multiyear supply & demand analysis, global trade flow analysis and market insights

2. Projects Shortlisting areas for ICS formation, develop partners, lead farmers, ecosystem to support the operations

3. Sustainability Build differentiated sustainability strategy (areas of impact) based on customer's needs for various products

4. Supply chain Infrastructure Build commodity wise aggregation, post-harvest, pre-processing infrastructure at origins

5. Strategic Sourcing Build crop balance sheets, market intelligence, identify quality, time, location arbitrages and build commodity wise buying strategy

5. Supplier Relationship Management Develop deep industry relationships, strategic supply partners, long term engagement with key stakeholders within the supply chains

6. Procurement Operations P2P process improvements, working capital management, design team structure, processes & tools to improve TAT for various activities.

7. Inventory management Building commodity wise position strategy, grade/quality decisions, warehousing and liquidation of by-products

8. Digital tools Identify and develop digital tools for traceability, sustainability and efficient procurement operations

9. Team development Build agile, responsive and future ready capabilities/team, talent management

Experience: 10-15 years

Industry Type: FMCG/Food Processing/Export

Education: MBA in Agribusiness Management from Tier 1/Tier 2 B-schools preferably with B.Sc Agriculture from reputed university

Location: Mumbai

Desired profile:

- Good communication skills & presentable personality with strong people management skills

- Ability to lead large cross functional teams across multiple origins.

- Should have experience of building agricultural supply chains from scratch and scaling them up.

- Strong understanding of the agribusiness and depth in supply chain knowledge

- Strong influencing skills and be able to work under ambiguous situations with minimum guidance.

- Strong networking skills to be able to collaborate with govt agencies, farmer groups and various other external stakeholders.

- Good analytical skills

- Computer & digital proficiency

- Should be a quick learner and team player