- Specialist Grocery is responsible for category coordination with stores and central team overseeing sales and margin delivery for Edible Oils & Ghee categories across the country in alignment with the 4 pillars of SPAR - Value, Freshness, Service and Choice across all SPAR Hypermarkets across the country and reports into Lead - Grocery.

Authority : This position is accountable for :

- Implementing buying and merchandising strategy across Grocery categories with a view towards achieving sales year on year focusing on margin.

- Ensuring close coordination with store operations regional category teams and all other functions.

- Adherence to annual budget and financial performance for the Grocery categories across Hypermarkets in the country and ownership of the P&L

- Provide inputs on Price Benchmarking of the Grocery categories, perform competition benchmarking and implement retail Best Practices and commercial processes.

- Engaging and handling vendors in the Grocery categories across the country.

- Control Shrink and dump across all dry fruits categories in coordination with regional teams

Responsibility :

- Responsible for achieving and surpass sales, margin delivery and monitor and control of shrink & dump for the Grocery categories across regions.

- Measurement and effectiveness of all processes internal and external. Provide timely, accurate and complete reports on the operating condition of the Grocery Category.

- Working in collaboration with the Store Operations Team, regional Category teams & support functions to implement Grocery category objectives

- Collaborate with the management team to develop and implement plans for the operational infrastructure of systems, SOP's designed to accommodate objectives of the organization.

- Responsible for creating seamlessness across the Grocery categories including reporting across all metrics to the management

- Create excellence across the Grocery categories in all processes.

- To understand the market scenario & take and implement action according to it.

- Forecasting the market trend by looking at the price, demand & market fluctuations and hedging/forward blocking the stock according

Span : Individual contributor role