myfrido - Strategic Sourcing Role (3-7 yrs)
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for the sourcing of products from Indian and Other factories
- Negotiating best prices and favorable payment terms to the company
- Driving end to end process from sampling, production follow-up, shipments
- Working with cross-functional teams like Design team on developing artworks for packaging boxes, Engineering team for quality checks of product, training customer, support on new launches etc.
- Driving top line and bottom line for their respective category.
- Implementation of plans for category in areas of price, promotion & assortment.
- Dealing with various vendors-merchandising activities like calculating trims / raw material, costing of product.
- Monitoring product lifecycle of every product in the category and take early calls for opportunity maximization
- Accurately forecasting trends, planning stock and monitoring performance.
Skills & Qualification:
- 3+ years' experience in sourcing.
- Prior experience in Planning and Category Management, B2B sales / marketing role with team management capability preferred
- Self-starter, problem solver to identify process gaps and trouble shoot them
- Ability to execute in rapid growth and fast paced environment -ability to work with ambiguity in a start-up environment
