Roles & Responsibilities:

1. Managing operations at chilling centers:

- Monitoring the operations at all CCs in the whole division, including collaborating with maintenance and quality departments as required.

- Ensuring milk procurement as per budgeted quantities across months, by effectively managing lean and flush periods.

– Building goodwill with farmers and Village Level Collection persons through farmer meetings, veterinary camps, etc.,

– Monitoring payments to farmers through proper documentation with KYC and resolving any issues by coordinating with procurement accounts team.

2. Expansion, optimization and monitoring processes:

– Monitoring route vehicle timings and ensure optimization of routes to control transport cost.

– Managing establishments of new MCC/BMCs/CMCs at potential operating areas. Visiting all CCs in the division at least once a month for monitoring the                 functioning of the CC.

– Ensuring chilling centres are compliant with safety and statutory norms.

– Establishing necessary controls and random audits to inspect and minimize any malpractices across chilling centres.

- Managing the cost-effective milk procurement activities which align to the organisation objective with budget cost.

3. General management:

- Managing the procurement team across division through continuous development and performance feedback.

- Preparing annual budget and analyzing monthly performance against budget.

- Analyzing and reporting performance across CCs on procurement, operational costs, etc.

- Periodically obtain procurement strategy and pricing mechanism of other procurement agencies in operation.