CC Buyer – Fruits & Vegetables

Job Attributes

• Position Name: CC Buyer
• Business Unit: Grocery B2C
• Function: Category Management
• Reporting to: State Buyer
• Location: State Office

Job Purpose

To ensure quality procurement through development of new farmers, suppliers and vendors

Key Responsibilities

• Daily Mandi visit for MIS price collection & updating in the portal to arrive at Mandi & CC price band
• Identify & develop new Farmers & vendors for supplies as per specified quality standards
• Procuring CC short fall from mandi at competitive prices to ensure 100% fill rate to stores
• Quality, Price & Assortment benchmarking of competitions to ensure competencies in KVI SKUs
• Forecast Seasonal Fruits & vegetables arrival & price, source trend in wholesale market to develop souring strategies
• Daily Visit to all Stores mapped to the DSD Buyer and ensuring Supplies, Pricing, Quality and Other Parameters as per Business Standards
• Daily Visit to Competition Stores for doing the Price Benchmarking and sharing the said Price Benchmarking Details with the State F&V Head, every day
• Fortnightly Quality, Price & Assortment bench marking of competition, with Operations Team and Quality team, to ensure competencies in KVI SKUs
• F&V Price Updating in SAP as per Reliance Retail Pricing Policy
• Conducting F&V Training for the F&V Champions and Store Team on a Regular Basis (Fortnightly once at least).

Key Performance Indicators

Primary KPIs

• Line Fill rate
• Quantity fill rate/ Vol. Achievement for DSD
• Quality/ Dump & Shrink
• DPP Variation

Additional KPIs

• GM% Delivery for DSD
• GRIR/ NDC

Job Requirements

Functional Competencies

• Procurement
• Market Analysis
• Product Quality Evaluation
• Negotiation Skills

Behavioral Competencies

• Communication Skills
• Attention to Detail
• Adaptability
• Decision-Making