Sourcing Specialist - Food Ingredients

  Roles and Responsibilities:

• Initiate, develop and nurture relationships with manufacturing and trading companies in India and across the globe mainly in the Food sector including categories such as sweeteners, oils, essential oils, fats, nutraceuticals, and food additives.
• Work closely with the sales and marketing teams to understand their sourcing requirements and get them the best sourcing opportunities possible, making sure that supply is never a constraint to fulfil an order
• Negotiating prices, contracts, and payment terms for spot and recurring businesses
• Put utmost importance on turnaround times to get the best possible rate quotations within the shortest possible time
• Identify potential new suppliers, explore partnership opportunities, and develop strategies to attract more suppliers to work with us
• Alignment of sourcing strategies with various stakeholders in sales, operations and finance team for execution
• Be at the top of latest industry trends and developments by keeping eyes and ears on the ground to take advantage of various opportunities
• Build a strong market intelligence database updated with the latest information from the supplier side
• Give utmost importance to suppliers and build long-term relationships by creating regular and quick feedback loops with them

  Skills and Qualifications:

• Minimum 4+ years of experience in sourcing sweeteners, oils, essential oils, fats, nutraceuticals, and food additives.
• Possess strong relationships with manufacturers and traders in this industry
• Knowledge of right databases to explore and right companies to reach out to for sourcing new chemical requirements
• Ability to build a strong market intelligence for various chemicals in terms of pricing trend, geographical advantage, supply disruptions, raw material pricing etc.
• Having bias towards action and do not mind getting their hands dirty to take care of sourcing operations
• Excellent management, relationship building and networking skills

• Should have an entrepreneurial mindset and strong business acumen