Designation
Senior Manager - Tea Buying
Function
Commodity Sourcing & Management Organization
Location
Kochi - PBO
Reporting To
Associate Director - Tea Buying
Job Description
What are the Key Deliverables in this role?
Financial Outcomes
- Auction Buying – Buying Teas through the Auction Portal. Overseeing Pre/Post Sale work.
- Private Buying - Ensuring that RMs are secured at best value and to our quality needs through the private channel.
- Buying Decisions – need to actively engage with cluster managers and give inputs on supply scenario, price patterns, etc to help make buying decisions.
- Increase pool of supply: Actively engage with vendors, aggregators to look for opportunities to increase our pool of offers.
Customer Service/Quality Compliance:
- Tea Tasting – Tasting large numbers of cups per day (both auction and private channels) and grading product using our in-house tasting language.
- Quality Management - Bring efficiencies in reduce material to material transfer metric against LY and. Manage tasting calibration with the blenders.
Internal Processes
- Forecasting Price & Availability
- Audit compliance: Ensure and drive 100% compliance wrt. IFC/OFIs as required for External/Internal audits.
Innovation and Learning
- Drive Data Analytics: Drive data backed decision making leveraging various dashboards available. Regular analysis of data to drive buying decisions.
- Design Thinking/Problem Solving – Inculcate this aspect in day-to-day work with strong focus on optimizing and innovating our sourcing initiatives.
What are the Critical success factors for the Role?
- Master’s or bachelor’s degree in finance or food technology
- 10+ years of relevant work experience
- Work experience in large multinationals which deal in commodity sourcing or trading.
What are the Desirable success factors for the Role?
- Good Communication and negotiation skills.
- Familiarity with tea manufacturing, tea buying and blending.
- Good knowledge of tea tasting and grading.
- Analytical and problem-solving abilities.
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