Role & responsibilities

- Seasonal/strategic Procurement recommendations and execution (Spices/Agrl Commodities)

- Daily Market Monitoring &
- Price Tracking.

- Develop and execute sourcing strategies for imported spices.

- Identify sourcing opportunities through origin buying

- Monitor international commodity markets and currency trends

- Strategies Import opportunities in spices & develop robust system for Imports

- Responsible for Regulatory &

- Import compliance

- Inventory &

- Working Capital optimization

- Supplier Development for quality product supplies, future needs.

- Maintain 100% adherence to Supplier code of conduct & responsible sourcing.

- Budgeting and adherence review.

- Expertise in Cost plus conversion model & implementation.

- Identify Cost Effective Supplier and development to achieve 100% adherence to delivery & quality. Risk Assessment for supplier enrolment.

- Deliver targets set for Purchase Price Variance, Innovation, Cost Avoidance, &





- Value Optimization in given category.

- Efficient Contract Management and periodic contract performance review

- Risk Mitigation planning and sustainable sourcing measures for category

- Supplier Evaluation and Development.

- Contract Management

- Recent Product Development support

- Collaborative/ Cross functional cost efficiency projects.

Preferred candidate profile

- 4-8 years of experience in Spices/Agri/ processed/Commodity Purchase (must)

- Spices/Agri Commodity purchase skill-set/ experience (must)

- Experience in Import/ export of Food Products/ Spices/ (Spices Preferred)

- Agricultural Commodity trading (buying & selling) / processing- Custom Milling or conversion experience

- Purchasing for Private Label development in retail company/ export house (Spices preferred)

📌 Procurement Manager (Kochi)
🏢 Orkla India
📍 Kochi