Terviva India Pvt Limited
Position: Director Procurement
CTC - Rs. 40,00,000/- to 50,00,000/-
Reports to: India Country Head
Job Type: Full-Time
A leading sustainable agricultural technology company, Terviva, provides patented high-yielding trees to growers and proprietary bean processing to food manufacturers to create sustainable food ingredients, capitalizing on the need for science to bring better plant-based options to consumers. Terviva is recruiting the Manager, Business Applications as they ramp up R&D operations, facilities, and staff to meet the increasing demand for sustainable plant-based proteins & oil.
About Terviva
Founded in 2010, Tervivais a rapidly growing food and ag-tech company that delivers tasty and nourishing plant-based food ingredients from the pongamia tree. The company provides patented high-yielding trees and offers proprietary bean processing to create the world\xe2\x80\x99s most sustainable oil and protein food ingredients. Terviva believes that healthy foods need a healthy planet with thriving ecosystems and strong, resilient social structures to feed the rising global population in a climate-constrained world. The company is dedicated to helping growers feed people while taking care of the planet. Terviva produces plant protein and vegetable oil by growing non-GMO, sustainable Pongamia that is carbon negative and produces dramatically higher yields than other oilseed crops on farmland that can\xe2\x80\x99t be used for traditional crops due to weather, disease, or market challenges. Using natural, proprietary food processing methods, Terviva creates a golden-colored, buttery cooking oil and highly soluble plant protein which is far more sustainable than other oilseed crops commonly used today, such as palm and soy.
Terviva is headquartered in Alameda, California and has offices in Florida, Hawaii, Australia and India. In 2021 May, the company raised $78.0MM in equity capital to commercialize its highly sustainable, new-to market culinary oils and plant proteins. Terviva additionally launched a collaboration with Danone that illustrates a shared vision to improve the environmental outcomes of the food system by supporting regenerative farming practices that improve soil health, water quality and biodiversity, while also improving social and market outcomes.
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OVERALL JOB PURPOSE
Primarily responsible for creating & executing the procurement strategy for sourcing of Pongamia/Karanja beans in India. The person will be responsible for program creation and field scale interventions with internal and external stakeholders in the domain of estimating & increasing availability, procurement & negotiations strategy, pre-crush processing of Pongamia beans in India. The primary focus of this position is to roll out interventions and build capacities of stakeholders \xe2\x80\x93 viz. Community resource persons, farmers, self-help groups, collection centers. The person will be responsible to manage and execute the forecasts for quantity & rate for feedstock procurement and ensure that timelines are effectively followed to meet the purchase requirements (traceability, quality, sustainability) of the business at international level. To efficiently manage supply of stocks in terms of volume and cost and manage risk associated with current market conditions to ensure security of supply. To maintain and improve quality, developing company\xe2\x80\x99s reputation, and strengthening the link between TerViva and bean gatherers/ suppliers/ partners in all the potential states of India.
ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Procurement
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