Cotton Seed Purchase Executive –

Position: Cotton Seed Purchase Executive / Purchase Officer

Department: Purchase / Procurement

Industry: Cotton Seed Oil / Ginning & Oil Manufacturing

Location: Ponnuru, Brahmanagudem Plant

Job Purpose:

Responsible for sourcing and purchasing cotton seed from ginning mills, traders, farmers, and other suppliers at competitive prices while ensuring required quality, quantity, and timely availability for plant operations.

Key Responsibilities

- Identify and develop reliable cotton seed suppliers, ginning mills, traders and market sources.
- Monitor daily cotton seed market prices and market trends.
- Negotiate price, quality, quantity, payment terms and delivery conditions with suppliers.
- Procure cotton seed as per the plant's production and stock requirements.
- Coordinate with suppliers regarding dispatch, transportation and delivery schedules.
- Ensure proper quality and quantity verification of cotton seed received.
- Coordinate with the Quality Control/Lab team for testing of incoming material.
- Monitor parameters such as moisture, oil content, impurities, damaged material and other applicable quality parameters.
- Verify purchase orders, weighment, supplier bills and related purchase documents.
- Coordinate with Accounts for supplier payments and reconciliation.
- Maintain supplier-wise purchase records, price details and pending deliveries.
- Develop and maintain good relationships with suppliers for regular procurement.
- Visit ginning mills, markets and supplier locations whenever required.
- Coordinate with Stores,



Production, QC, Transport and Accounts departments.
- Identify current suppliers and alternative procurement sources to ensure uninterrupted raw-material availability.
- Monitor purchase cost versus market price and report significant variations to management.
- Ensure compliance with company purchase procedures and approval requirements.
- Prepare daily/weekly/monthly purchase reports for management.

Qualification
- Any Graduate; B.Com / B.Sc. / Agriculture / MBA (Marketing or Supply Chain) will be an added advantage.
- 2–5 years of experience in cotton seed purchase, ginning mills, oil mills, agri-commodity procurement or related field.
- Candidates with strong local market and supplier contacts will be preferred.

Required Skills
- Strong negotiation and communication skills.
- Good knowledge of cotton seed and ginning mill markets.
- Understanding of quality parameters and market pricing.
- Supplier relationship management.
- Good analytical and decision-making skills.
- Basic MS Excel and reporting knowledge.
- Willingness to travel to supplier/ginning mill locations.

Reporting To: Purchase Manager / GM – Purchase / Plant Head

Key KPIs:

- Timely availability of cotton seed.
- Purchase price competitiveness.
- Quality of purchased material.
- Supplier development and reliability.
- Reduction in purchase-related losses and quality claims.
- Accurate purchase documentation and reporting.

Pay: ₹20,000.00 - ₹30,000.00 per month

Benefits

- Flexible schedule

Work Location: In person

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