National Sourcing Head Job in Ninjacart

What are we looking for?

• Display high levels of ownership and commitment
• Strong hustler
• Willing to travel extensively, visit mandis/markets and hit the ground to solve problems
• Outstanding interpersonal and public speaking skills
• People Management: Ability to handle a layered team of more than 400 in an effective way and specify tasks and effective utilization of the available resource
• Data-Driven: Innate sense towards data & strong grip over procurement metrics. Experience in process improvement and lean techniques
• Process Adherence: Ability to bring rigor to the process and SOPs to ensure we build consistency and reliability on a day to day basis and scalability in long-term
• Personality:High Energy, go-getter, and proactive personality. Should be a self- starter and should be able to work independently, take end-to-end responsibility and accountability for results

What you will do? | Responsibilities

• Strong evangelist of the Ninjacart value proposition for farmers.
• Own end to end sourcing and ensure the end to end smooth running of business model.
• Responsible for the reduction in cost and increase in productivity
• Head the entire local direct farmer sourcing initiatives across PAN India. This includes highly perishable and daily purchase products.
• Build a sustainable and scalable sourcing network.
• Own farmer happiness and the better livelihood for farming families.
• Ensure the availability of adequate and trained manpower across cities and the business plan.Hire, Train and develop a high-performance sourcing team.
• Set clear goals, incentive structure and targets and drive them effectively.
• Improve the productivity of the sourcing team by identifying and filling the current training gaps and performance management systems.
• Ensuring Pan India Performance reporting periodically

What you will need to have | Requirements

• MBA/PGDM from a Tier I Tier II college
• 8 to 12 Years of relevant experience. Preferable Companies/Industries -> FMCG, FMCD, E-commerce
• Solid understanding of sales fundamentals.
• Willing totravel on work extensively
• Entrepreneurial zeal and startup enthusiast