Assistant Manager - Commodity Sourcing

Function:  Commodity Sourcing & Management Organization

Location: Gandhidham Gujarat

Reporting To: Senior Manager – Sourcing

At Tata Consumer Products Ltd, we stand #Forbetter – Planet, Sourcing, Nutrition, Communities. And #ForBetter Opportunities …. Here’s an exciting one!

How does this Job align to our Strategy?

At the core of Tata Consumer Products' business approach lie six strategic pillars that serve as the foundation for its growth and success: Strengthening & Accelerating our Core Business, Driving Digital and Innovation, Unlocking Synergies, Creating a Future-Ready Organization, Exploring New Opportunities and Embedding Sustainability.

This job opportunity closely aligns with one of these key strategic pillars, which is Strengthening & Accelerating our Core Business. The role involves managing sourcing and packing of the traded salt across multiple 3P/2P Units. Maintain the daily operational activities (planning, production and dispatch), controls on SAP in the Units.

Top dimensions:

Geography: India

Direct reports: NA

Complexity of the role (Optional): (6-8 plants, packing operations, etc)

Matrix Reports: NA

Type of Role: Individual Contributor

Primary Stakeholders (Optional):  Quality Assurance, Logistics, Manufacturing, Planning, Payment processing team, External vendors and 3P/2P Units, R&D, Finance.

What are the Key Deliverables in this role?

• Performance assessment and communication for the handled manufacturing plants and supplier locations.
• Coordinating production plants and dispatch scheduling as per sales requirement and vendor performance evaluation.
• Active participation to improve efficiency and cost reduction and daily reporting of unit’s performance.
• Ensuring regulatory and quality compliance at the units in conjunction with quality and regulatory teams
• RM planning for the products as per the sales/ production demand.
• Ensuring SAP transactions as per material movement and audit and statutory compliances.
• Scheduling production and deliveries of RMs across the plants to meet the sales/production requirement.
• Dispatching – On Time, In Full (Ensuring compliance to SAP system invoicing requirements).
• Regular/Need based Field visits to monitor the performance of salt units and salt works.
• Share market intelligence on prices movements and production statistics
• Keep track of rake movements for Salts
• Ensure adherence to audit requirements and resolving critical observations.
• Development of vendors, Salt growing geographies and Suppliers’ capabilities
• Co-ordination with the payment processing team for the timely issue of payments to the vendors
• Ensure timely dispatch of materials from vendors as per their commitment
• Active participation in cross functional team for process improvements, Cost efficiency improvements and NPDs (New Product Developments) 
• Continuous scanning of the Trades salts markets to identify opportunities to explore new sources, onboarding of new associates.

• Deploying Internal Digital tools/Systems and ensuring Vendor participation/ education. 

What are the Critical success factors for the Role?

• Postgraduate/Graduate in Food Technology/Science (chemistry)
• Minimum 5+ years of experience in salt Industry – Salt Manufacturing and Packing

What are the Desirable success factors for the Role?

• Experience working in Food and salt industry.
• Good communication skills (specifically English). Should be fluent in Gujarati and Hindi.
• Computer proficiency (MS office, SAP, Google drive)
• Knowledge of food safety aspect

TCPL Growth Mindset and Behaviors

We are obsessed about keeping Consumers & Customers first in our hearts – that’s why we are here !

We are trailblazers in executing with Excellence … Together as One Team !

We take Ownership of our business …delivering value for our Stakeholders .. no Compromises !

We are Open to Continuously improving … Continuously innovating … For Better !

We live & breathe our Tata Code of Conduct

About Us: At Tata Consumer, we stand ‘For Better.’ 

Tata Consumer Products is a focused consumer products company uniting the principal food and beverage interests of the Tata Group under one umbrella. Our brands embody our purpose of ‘For Better ‘through the value they deliver to consumers with a focus on innovation, health and wellness, convenience and premiumisation. The Company’s portfolio of products includes tea, coffee, water, RTD, salt, pulses, spices, ready-to-cook and ready-to-eat offerings, breakfast cereals, snacks and mini meals. Our key brands include Tata Tea, Tetley, Eight O’Clock Coffee, Tata Coffee Grand, Himalayan Natural Mineral Water, Tata Copper+ and Tata Gluco+, Tata Salt, Tata Sampann and Tata Soulfull. In India, Tata Consumer Products has a reach of over 200 million households, giving it an unparalleled ability to leverage the Tata brand in consumer products.

The Company has a consolidated annual turnover of ~Rs. 17,618 Cr with operations in India and International markets. For more information please visit www.tataconsumer.com