About the Role 

As a Manager - Sourcing & Procurement, Staples, you’ll work with the Staples Category team of Superstore to identify and onboard millers or traders for non branded pure staple products (Dals, Sugar, Flours, Cereals, Rice & Rice products, Spices, Dry Fruits).

You will operate as the key POC for Vendor identification, onboarding and price negotiations to help the category launch new products and operate at required margin levels.

What you will do

• Understand the value chain dynamics, determine the target supplier profile (business, operational, aspirational & people alignment).
• Define lead generation framework and playbook for identification of key seller profiles for different product lines.
• Onboard new vendors post initial price negotiations and contract signing.
• Create a pool of sellers for every product line to ensure pricing goodness and business continuity.
• Collaborate with Cat-Ops and supply chain teams to streamline the operational interdependencies between the supplier and Org’s supply chain.
• Support the category team with key on-ground intel on price fluctuations/ market dynamics.

What you will need

• 3-4 Years of total work experience, with at least 2+ years of experience in staples/grocery sourcing function in large offline/ e-commerce grocery organisations.
• Proven problem-solving and project management skills.
• Strong first principle thinking to challenge the status quo in the market and identify new opportunities in the market.
• Excellent people and persuasion skills to confidently interface with 50-500 crore annual turnover business proprietors, articulate the value proposition, align them to the desired business terms.
• Strong bias for action and passion for a 0-1 business.
• Strong track record with proven growth in the current organisation.
• Strong business judgement, instincts, and organisational skills.
• Readiness to travel 70% of the time during initial 6 months and 50% of the time subsequently.