Naveen Kumar Singh

• Established and maintained strong partnerships with key suppliers and farmers, ensuring a steady and cost-effective supply of fresh produce.
• Fostered trust and collaboration to drive long-term, mutually beneficial relationships..
• Conducted in-depth market research to stay ahead of industry trends and pricing fluctuations.
• Adjusted procurement and sales strategies to maximize profitability and competitiveness.
• Collaborated with operations teams to optimize inventory levels and ensure timely delivery, aligning with customer demands
• Directed regional farm clusters, overseeing harvesting and post-harvest processes to ensure operational efficiency.
• Monitored product quality and adherence to industry standards, implementing corrective measures to address non-compliance.
• Maintained rigorous quality checks to uphold brand reputation and customer satisfaction.
• Optimized transportation methods, including part load, full truck load, and air freight, for perishable fruits.
• Developed and executed logistics plans for transporting produce from local farms to clusters, and warehouses.

• Procurement of Fresh Produce ,Meat & Chicken per company requirement and plan
• • Forecast weekly consumption and plan sourcing as per demand
• • Benchmark market and mandi price on daily basis
• • Developed and maintained professional relationships with vendors, brokers and Costumers personnel

• Managed supplier relationships to ensure quality of goods or services provided met contractual requirements.
• Responsible for Buying, sales, Direct Farm sourcing, vendor enrollment and development of East and North region Lead a team of 15 people delivering over 8-10 CR sales annually.
• Collaborate with the sales team for efficient demand planning and better outcomes
• Connect and manage stock across pan-India mandis to meet regional demand effectively
• Manage supply chain operations for efficient stock availability across India.
• Monitor financial performance, ensuring alignment with business goals and profitability targets.

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• Maintain supplier and buyer relationships.
• Last mile vendor development & hand-holding for vendor partner sustainability.
• Benchmarking market prices and trends.
• Daily shipping of 160 tons of food load, maintaining NDD percentage to 98%+, with 2% RTO in a B2B environment.
• Coaching, developing, and training drivers, as well as delivery partners, to gel with company delivery practices.
• A robust understanding of the LM console and WMS system is necessary to avoid any inventory breaches.
• Planning and Execution of new pin code (business area) & forecast Cost, LM, manpower, with city & cluster Head
• Planning monthly supply costs with manpower costs, FM costs, and LM costs alignment for YOY plans.

• Procurement of the best quality fresh produce, meat, and chicken as per company norms.
• Negotiated for prices of produce and monitored logistic cost of processes.
• Developed and maintained professional relationships with vendors, brokers and store personnel.
• Sources Product Direct from Producer to DC, to supply fresh quality to our stores & manage DC margin 10% to 14%
• Buy imported fruit and vegetables from Delhi Mandi, which articles are not available in the local mandi, to maintain a variety of unique items.
• Forecast weekend and big day qty and offer cost to provide best rate on offer article to store for beet market sale and archive new goals
• Maintain 90% + Fill rate with good quality Fruit and Vegetables.

• Daily procurement of quality Fruit and vegetable as per company parameter
• Achieving top line and bottom-line targets MOM
• Negotiating prices of produce and monitored logistic cost of processes.
• Market price Bench marking and Upload completive prices on site with GM intactness
• Monitored and analyzed sales data of past years and prepared forecast for coming year.
• Maintain balanced indenting of Fruit & vegetable based on sales trend
• Maintain FMCG food, Dairy and bakery stock availability, Offer & benchmark all top 500 item on weekly basis.
• Coordinate with HO Team for Planning Paper add & marketing related, promotion & offer.
• Maintain 100% seasonal produce availability on website for customer’s better experience.
• Maintain Ageing stock and plan liquidation & do master correction to remove low moving item.

Responsible to deliver sales of entire fresh category that are fruits and vegetables, Meat and Dairy through proper

coordination with category buyers. Floor level execution with best in class display standards, POP compliance, Local

mandi procurement of fruits and vegetables. Co-ordination with Horeca team to push sales of fresh category, Price

negotiation with buyers as per market trend and cater end to end execution of bulk orders. Handled 2cr per month

business of fresh category

Key Highlights:

Imported fruits destination - Developed and managed healthy base of reseller and wholesale buyers and

make Walmart store a destination for Imported. By getting Proper market knowledge in terms of quality, size

Specs, origin of produce coordinated with category buyers, and achieved extraordinary results.

• Frozen Category achieved double digit growth through training on product handling and uses. Educated customers on Thawing and refrigeration norms of thawed non veg, Shelf life and all food safety norms ofFSSAI.
• Developed HORECA accounts by visiting and meeting with chefs and buyers. Understand their need like

Different cuts of poultry and meat, size of bird and goat, Requirement of Cheese, Butter and other dairy

products. Ma ke a sustainable business of 5cr per year in HORECA.

• Fruits and vegetables buying penetration clocked 50%+and above with healthy ABV . Top in pan In