Purchase Manager

Supplier Management

- Build and maintain strong supplier partnerships to ensure reliability, quality, and value.

- Negotiate contracts, pricing, MOQs, lead times, and payment terms

- Drive cost efficiency through alternate sourcing, consolidation, and value engineering initiatives

- Identify and mitigate potential supply chain disruptions

- Work closely with R&D, Quality, Regulatory, and Production teams to ensure technical and compliance specifications are met.

- Ensure timely availability of materials to meet production schedules and new product development timelines

- Conduct supplier audits in coordination with Quality and Regulatory teams.

Herbal raw materials, Spice oleoresins, essential oils and other value-added ingredients

- Develop and implement efficient sourcing strategies

- Cost/scenario analysis and benchmarking

- Market intelligence on herbs of interest

- Develop and implement long-term procurement strategies aligned with business goals (cost, quality, sustainability, traceability).

Development of supply chain and backward integration for critical herbs

- Supply chain intelligence and suggest suitable change

- Monitor commodity price trends, climatic and geopolitical risks affecting key crops and
geographies.

- Identify and mitigate potential supply chain disruptions.

- Strategic cultivation plan for selected herbs

- Develop company identity at the locations of cultivation

- New vendors introduced

- Price variance

Other purchases and special projects

- Develop and implement efficient sourcing strategies

- Cost/scenario analysis and benchmarking

- Material availability as per plan

Documentation & Compliance

- Maintain updated records of supplier certifications (e.g., organic, fair trade, ISO, FSSAI), COAs,
traceability, and other regulatory requirements.

- Ensure adherence to internal SOPs and global food safety regulations (e.g., FSMA, EU directives

• 4+ years of experience in the strategic sourcing or procurement of botanical/raw plant-based ingredients.
• Knowledge on statutory requirements.
• Deep knowledge of herbs, spices, extracts, essential oils, and global sourcing regions.
• Strong negotiation, analytical, and vendor management skills.
• Exposure to ERP systems (SAP, Oracle, etc.) and procurement tools.
• Understanding of organic certification, sustainability practices, and traceability is a plus.

Willingness to travel for supplier audits and procurement trips.