State Head - Market Linkage (Karnataka & Maharashtra)

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India | Procurement | Full-time

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About FarMart

At FarMart(https://www.farmart.co/) we are building the world’s first OS powering food value chains. By digitizing and incentivizing the rural agri-retailer, FarMart has created one-stop-hubs for farmers to buy input and sell output in close proximity to their farms. This alternative, asset-light, food value chain eliminates the multiple transportation costs, spillages, and time effort involved for both the producer and the end-buyer.

FarMart is proud to have partnered with and backed by renowned VCs like General Catalyst, Matrix Partners, Omidyaar Network and Avaana Capital that invest in leading tech companies that are sustainable and purposeful.

Role & Responsibilities:

- Responsible for achieving AOP target, ensuring growth and profitability of the assigned State

- Develop and implement retailer business plans, manage forecasting, inventory management and product line demand issues, set the business direction, and coordinate follow-ups with retailers

- Identify various Institutions closely working with farmers directly and build relationships

- Leverage integrating FarMart App to access farmers and provide inputs/benefits to them.

- Work with HO to execute specific partnership, MoU, agreement as per the need of business model

- Retailer management including reach expansion

- Supervise and manage the support functions:

- Plan and follow up with teams for seamless flow of materials

- Ensuring that the team is uploading required documents in the portal to get the Retailers payment done.

- Actively manage inventory concerns as appropriate to meet business objectives

- Keep a close eye on competition

Desired Skills:

- Team management (Can handle a large team)

- Business strategy and Planning (For his state)

- Full of confidence (Bold speaker)/Good at Numbers

- Great Communicator/ Stakeholder Management & Problem-Solving Attitude

- Proficient in his state language along with Hindi and English (written and Speech)

- Knowledge on GTM.