We are Licious and we are a Bengaluru-based meat and seafood company founded in 2015 by Abhay Hanjura and Vivek Gupta, our founders, foodies, and friends. We pride ourselves on being India’s most successful D2C food-tech brand operating in 20 cities across the country, delighting over 32 lac customers with our de-licious fresh meat and seafood
Think you have what it takes to be the magic ingredient in the recipe that is Licious? Read on…
What makes the role meaty?
We are looking for a dynamic Sourcing Manager to manage end-to-end procurement of fish and seafood for our Pan India operations. The role involves working closely with fishermen, suppliers, and aggregators to ensure consistent supply, quality, and cost efficiency and leading the procurement team at Licious
Role Overview
Own end-to-end marine procurement for Licious's fish & seafood vertical from harbour and coastal landings through to processing centre fulfilment. Reporting to the Sourcing Head: Fish & Seafood, you will be accountable for supply security, the coastal direct-sourcing network, the vendor ecosystem,
and cost competitiveness across the category. The role carries full team leadership responsibility across processing centres and coastal clusters.
Key Responsibilities
• Guarantee uninterrupted supply across all cities, holding category fill rate above plan through demand-linked indenting and multi-source contingency.
• Drive cost efficiency by expanding direct coastal sourcing and reducing dependence on intermediated/trader channels.
• Build and deepen the direct vendor network — identify, onboard, develop and retain an active base of coastal suppliers and processors.
• Expand harbour-level coverage across key coastal geographies to secure species diversity, seasonality cover and price leverage.
• Hire, build and lead the coastal and PC sourcing team; close open positions against plan and develop on-ground capability.
• Lead sourcing readiness for current city and new category launches — vendor onbo