Business Associate - Field Sales

Porter; Rajkot; On-site; INR 450,000 - 550,000; Full time

Job summary

Porter is seeking a Vendor Operations Specialist in Rajkot, Gujarat to manage vendor sourcing, onboarding, and daily operations, ensuring smooth service delivery and compliant processes.

You will allocate vehicles, coordinate with vendors, monitor performance, and use Excel for data analysis and reporting. Strong negotiation skills are essential to secure favorable terms for all parties involved.

Qualifications

• Familiarity with Microsoft Excel basics: formulas, sorting, filtering, data entry, and simple analysis.
• Strong negotiation skills with active listening, clear communication, empathy, problem-solving, and persuasion.

Responsibilities

• Vendor Sourcing: Actively identify, source, and onboard new vendors to enhance service offerings and capabilities.
• Vendor Onboarding: Guide vendors through onboarding, ensuring integration into the system, alignment with standards, and payment recovery compliance.
• Daily Operations: Handle day-to-day operations and address operational challenges to ensure smooth business processes.
• Vehicle Allocation: Manage and allocate vehicles for orders based on vendor availability, ensuring delivery efficiency.
• Vendor coordination: Maintain open and effective communication with vendors and address inquiries and resolve issues during the order process.
• Performance Monitoring: Track vendor performance and ensure quality standards are met.

Skills

Excel basics

Negotiation skills

Job description

Role & responsibilities:

• Vendor Sourcing: Actively identify, source, and onboard new vendors to enhance the service offerings and capabilities.
• Vendor Onboarding: Guide vendors through the onboarding process, ensuring they are fully integrated into the system, aligned with operational standards, and compliant with payment recovery.
• Daily Operations: Handle the day-to-day operations by monitoring and addressing any operational challenges to ensure smooth business processes.
• Vehicle Allocation: Manage and allocate vehicles for orders based on vendor availability, ensuring optimal delivery efficiency.
• Vendor coordination: Maintain open and effective communication with vendors and , addressing inquiries and resolving any issues that arise during the order process.
• Performance Monitoring: Track vendor performance, ensure quality standards are met.

Preferred candidate profile

• Involves understanding and using the basic functions of Microsoft Excel, such as creating spreadsheets, entering data, using formulas (like SUM, AVERAGE), formatting cells, and sorting or filtering data. These skills are essential for handling numbers, and performing basic data analysis.

• Negotiation Skills: These involve the ability to reach mutually beneficial agreements between parties. Strong negotiation skills include active listening, clear communication, empathy, problem-solving, and persuasion. Effective negotiators understand the needs of both sides and work toward a compromise that satisfies both parties.