Assistant Procurement Manager FMCG

Suguna Foods; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Suguna Foods is seeking a seasoned operations professional to lead its pan-India Eggs Operations from Bengaluru. The role focuses on ensuring supply-demand alignment, managing farm contracts through supervisors, and expanding farm capacity and markets.

Responsibilities include coordinating feed purchases, handling orders, maintaining zero egg stock outages, ensuring SOP-compliant packing, and timely dispatch while safeguarding stock quality and 100% fill rate.

Qualifications

• Postgraduate or graduate with 4+ years in FMCG, at junior to mid-management level.
• Experience in Food & Beverage, chilled/fresh poultry meat preferred.
• Familiarity with procurement and sales processes and ERP systems.

Responsibilities

• Take ownership of pan-India Eggs Operations to ensure supply and demand and build stakeholder relationships.
• Manage contracts of eggs farms through a team of farm supervisors.
• Monitor farm capacity and scout for new farms and markets.
• Arrange feed/premix to farms from Suguna Feed Mills.
• Receive orders from Sales team and customers.
• Manage daily egg purchases for orders with zero holding of eggs.
• Oversee cleaning/packing of eggs per SOP and ensure timely dispatch.
• Ensure 100% fill rate and high stock quality on delivery.
• Accurate invoicing, timely purchase orders and payments to farms/transporters/vendors.
• Maintain stocks of packing materials and 100% stock accuracy of assets.
• Ensure compliance with statutory laws (FSSAI, GST, packaging).
• Address consumer and customer complaints and publish daily/monthly reports.

Skills

Procurement & Sales functions

Supply chain concepts

Inventory planning

Transport planning

ERP SD (Sales & Distribution)

Microsoft Excel

Education

Postgraduate or Graduate with 4+ years FMCG experience

Tools

ERP SD (Sales & Distribution)

Microsoft Office (Excel/Word/PowerPoint)

Job description

• Take ownership of the pan-India Eggs Operations to ensure proper supply and demand and to build a good stakeholder relationship for superior customer satisfaction
• Manage contracts of Eggs farms through a team of farm supervisors
• Monitor capacity of the farms and look out for new farms if needed and for new markets
• Arrange feed/premix to the Farms from Suguna Feed Mills.
• Receive orders from Sales team & Customers
• Manage daily purchase of Eggs for the orders received, through flow-through model ensuring Zero holding of Eggs.
• Manage cleaning and packing of Eggs in accordance with Sugunas SOP
• Ensure timely dispatch and timely delivery of the orders
• Ensure 100% fill rate of orders and high quality of the stocks delivered
• Ensure timely accounting of Farm invoices and raising of Purchase orders
• Ensure timely payments to farms, transporters, and vendors
• Ensure sufficient stocks of Packing material at all farms
• Ensure 100% stock accuracy of all Suguna assets and packing material
• Ensure all farms are compliant with all statutory laws (including and not limited to FSSAI, GST and Packaging laws)
• Address and resolve consumer complaints and customer complaints
• Publish daily & monthly reports on logistics, orders received and executed, fill rate etc

Qualification:

• Any Post Graduate Degree / Graduate with + 4years working in FMCG segment at a Junior to Middle management role, preferably in the Food & Beverage, chilled meat, fresh meat and/or processing poultry meat industry.
• Knowledge of Procurement and Sales functions.
• Knowledge of Purchase Requisition, Purchase Order, Purchase Invoice, Sales Order, Sales invoice, Proforma invoice.
• Good understanding of Supply Chain concepts (Stock-outs, Inventory planning, On-time dispatch, On-time delivery, Transport planning)
• Experience working with ERP system SD (Sales and Distribution)
• Good knowledge of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Power Point).