Pradeep Kumar A

Dynamic Purchase & SCM Manager with a proven track record at Hatti Food and Beverages Pvt. Ltd., excelling in vendor management and cost optimization. Skilled in data analysis and team dynamics, I drive strategic procurement initiatives, ensuring quality and timely delivery while enhancing operational efficiency.

• Won several medals, certificates and appreciation at various point throughout my career so far.

• Successfully launched and received tremendous response from customers for two new concepts - SPAR Kitchen (QSR Model in Modern Retail) & Grandma’s Corner(for Ethnic Pickles and Home- Made Range) as a part of SPAR Ver. 2.0.

In my previous position as Purchase & SCM Manager at Hatti Food and Beverages Pvt. Ltd., I am able to employ and leverage the knowledge and skills acquired during the entirety of my professional Journey. I started my Retail Career at Monday 2 Sunday Supermarkets as a Customer Care Associate & were promoted as Cashier within 8 months. After a year, I got responsibility to handle Bakery Production Unit (Hot Breads) as Trainee Supervisor at different store/outlet. After handling the production unit successfully with Sales numbers gone up by double fold & renewed SOPs, Management promoted me to handle bigger Kitchen at their Total Hypermarkets. This movement helped me to handle bigger team with confidence & better cross-functional coordination. After my stint at Total Hypermarkets, I had an opportunity to handle Supermarkets as Store Manager at Reliance Fresh & Smart Supermarkets for the tenure of less than a year. In the year 2010, once again, I got the opportunity to handle bigger team at SPAR Hypermarket (Mangalore) as Department Manager and was responsible for Bakery production & its commercial activities along with overlooking Dairy, Frozen and Fish & Meat Categories. YOY growth in Bakery sales, Dump/Shrink Control under the budget & Church activities during Christmas helped me being recognized at Corporate Office.

This opened the doors for me to get bigger responsibility to handle Karnataka Region as Asst. Category Manager at Corporate Office, Bangalore. Working at Corporate Office helped me to grow Professionally as well as Personally, in terms of Communication, People Management, Cross Functional team coordination, Vendor Management.