We have an exciting chance for someone to join us as an Operational Excellence Specialist to work in a truly global environment supporting end-to-end performance management and continuous improvement initiatives for supply chain operations managed from Bangalore office, reporting to Head of Logistics. The role provides long term development potential for someone eager to demonstrate their skills and experience in the fast-paced soft commodities environment.
Volcafe Ltd is one of the world’s leading international green coffee trading companies, operating in over 20 countries globally. Our expertise spans green coffee procurement and preparation, sustainability, blending, quality control, risk management and export as well as importing and distribution. We supply the world’s major coffee roasters and retail distributors with their green coffee requirements, with significant strategic growth ambitions for the future. We are part of ED&F; Man Commodities, a world leading trader of agricultural products including coffee, sugar, molasses and animal feed.
Volcafe works across the whole green coffee supply chain to make coffee business better, together with our partners and employees. We have built and operate sustainable coffee supply chains across all our origins, addressing key economic, social and environmental issues in coffee farming communities. Our Volcafe Way farmer support programme engages with thousands of coffee farmers and provides a holistic response to the challenges they face.
This role will be working for ED&F; Man Commodities India Pvt Ltd, business entity in Bangalore that operates as in-house global centre of excellence.
Key Accountabilities:
• Continuous Improvement: Identify inefficiencies, bottlenecks, and defect patterns across end-to-end Volcafes Supply Chain. Conduct process mapping, value stream mapping, RCA, and process waste elimination workshops. Redesign processes toward higher standardization, lower variability, and im