Job Title

Manager – Vendor Development, Bengaluru

Location

Bengaluru, Karnataka

Experience

6+ Years

About iD Fresh Food

iD Fresh Food’s mission is to make healthy and nutritious homemade meals an easy task. Our range of fresh and authentic no-preservatives, no-added-chemicals range of ready-to-cook products help millions of households across India and GCC whip up tasty and wholesome meals. And we are expanding rapidly to the rest of the world too.

About the Operational Model 

As our product is different from others, so is our business model. All our fresh products are made for the day they are shipped to retail stores. We have zero finished goods inventory, and hence no intermediary stockiest or transitory warehouses. This is possible only with the help of an inhouse fleet of vehicles and distribution personnel. Currently a fleet of 500 dedicated vehicles and crew touch 25,000 retailers daily and replenish 100,000+ Kgs units of the freshest produce.

Key Responsibilities

• Build a strong vendor base for the company.
• Asses existing supplier capabilities to meet product, cost, quality, capacity and fulfilment. ensuring suppliers can meet requirements for performance, quality, cost.
• Perform as a functional bridge amongst external vendors as well as internal stakeholders.
• Participate to formulate workflow processes, methods and policies for applying vendors.
• Monitor and give feedback to suppliers through scorecard to Key Performance Indicators on day-to-day activities.
• Identifying gaps in the existing supplier base across all the factories.
• Identify vendors across all geographies for different Agri commodity we source.
• Liaison with factory QA team to get samples approved as per standard SOP.
• Onboarding of the new suppliers.
• Price, Payment terms negotiation.
• Performance evaluation of the suppliers across all factories.

Key Requirements

Education: Any Graduation

Experience:6+ years of experience working in a similar role,

Communication– English & native regional language

Industry: Preferably from Food Manufacturing industry.

Interested?

If this role sounds like you, then apply with us! You have plenty of room for growth at iD.