Vegrow is in the business of fresh fruits & vegetables with an addressable market size of $43 Bn Vegrow is a tech platform partnering with farmers, aggregating supply, and selling the produce to organized & semi-organised demand. Vegrow believes in creating value at the farm over supply chain efficiencies. Through partnership, Vegrow simplifies farming and increases the land utilization for farmers, thereby creating value. Vegrow has partnered with 500+ farmers and has India wide presence, marketing the fresh produce to over 100 customers across modern trade exporters & wholesaler segments. Vegrow has championed wealth creation at the farm by helping the farmer “Produce the buy” and intelligently match make.
Job DescriptionProcurement lead is a leadership role, who shall be responsible for sourcing & driving strategic initiatives in a select commodities with territory sourcing managers reporting across the country.
1. Build sourcing capabilities for fruits and vegetables from farmers across the country
2. Responsible for building capabilities & executing multiple models of sourcing.
3. Strategic planning, resource deployment & monitoring
4. Drive strategic initiatives across sourcing vertical viz. market intelligence etc.
5. Manage day to day sourcing & operations for select commodities across the country
6. Build supply chain for select commodities from sourcing locations to across the country
7. Innovate & Implement pre-harvest & post-harvest engagement models with farmers
Qualifications1. Education Qualification of ABM/BSc. / MSc. Agriculture or Horticulture from reputed college.
2. At least 5 years of field experience in fruits & vegetables procurement from farmers
3. Someone with crop development experience, working closely with farmers will be preferred
4. Someone with exposure to input sales also, will be preferred.
5. Someone with exposure to sourcing Pomegranate/Citrus/grapes/Apples will be preferred
Additional Information1. Should have demonstrated track record of leadership & managing huge multicultural teams
2. Should be willing to continuously learn and unlearn & have entrepreneurial zeal.
3. Should be willing to be on ground, work closely with farmers & open to travel across.
4. Should be self-motivated individual with strategic bent of mind
5. Should be well networked in the agri world (Input/Output)
Skills Required
- At least 5 years of field experience in fruits & vegetables procurement from farmers
- Education Qualification of ABM/BSc. / MSc. Agriculture or Horticulture from reputed college
- Experience in crop development and working closely with farmers
- Exposure to input sales
- Experience sourcing Pomegranate/Citrus/Grapes/Apples
What We Do
Vegrow is in the business of fresh fruits with addressable market size of $60 Billion. Vegrow is a tech platform partnering with farmers, aggregating supply, and selling to organized demand through partnership. Vegrow simplifies farming and increases the land utilization for farmers. Vegrow is a VC funded startup and founded by a group of IITians having a passion for agtech and with experience in agri-input & agri-output companies viz. AgroStar & ITC. The team has experience in building products from 0 to 1 and 1 to 100 solving critical problems of market places & B2B business like UrbanCompany & Chronus.
