Director - Supply Chain

Procurement and Sourcing:

- Develop and enhance sourcing strategies for all of more than 1500 SKUs ranging from groceries to disposables to fixed assets. Develop and enhance sourcing strategies for all of more than 1500 SKUs ranging from groceries to disposables to fixed assets ensuring quality and lowest costs across geographies

- Developing vendors across to fuel Chaayos rapid expansion plans

- Develop SKU-level supply and demand planning models ensuring optimum stocks levels are maintained avoiding stock-outs, over-stocking and expiry

- Ensuring all vendor payments are happening on time as per agreed credit cycle

- Managing team of 6-8 procurement specialists for quality and lowest costs across geographies

Warehouse Operations:

- Managing flawless Warehousing operations across all regions

- Ensure OTIF% (On-time In-Full) metrics of warehouse are meeting targets

- Devise strategy to optimize warehousing cost

- Keep Warehouse inventory variance in check

Production and Commissary operations:

- Manage 24-7 central commissary operations across all regions ensuring OTIF % metrics are maintained

- Ensure food safety and quality standards are maintained

- Ensure production infrastructure, plan and manpower is updated as per increasing cafe numbers

Logistics:

- Manage optimized third-party cold logistics for daily delivery to cafes as per defined delivery schedule

- Optimize cold logistics cost as per increasing cafe numbers

- Ensure defined food safety temperature conditions are maintained while delivering at cafes