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Deputy Manager(F&V Category) KA, Ex-Bigbasket

About

Dynamic and results-driven professional with 5.5 years of experience in sales, quality management, buying, category management, and business strategy within retail and agribusiness sectors. Expertise in Fruits & Vegetables category management, pricing optimization, assortment planning, and E-commerce operations. Responsible for managing and overseeing signature stores across Bengaluru, ensuring operational excellence and brand standards. Skilled in data-driven decision making, inventory management, and supply chain coordination to drive sales growth, improve margins, and enhance customer satisfaction.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

claude

codex

gemini

meta

openai

perplexity

Work experience

Deputy Manager(F&V Category) at Reliance Retail, Sep 2022 - Present · 4 yrs 1 mo, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Manage Fruits & Vegetables category for Jio Mart Quick Commerce and 170+ stores in Bengaluru region. Coordinate SKU rationalization and implement competitive pricing strategies for both E-commerce and offline channels. Conduct regular market benchmarking to monitor competitor pricing and promotions. Oversee assortment planning, OOS tracking, and fill rate monitoring to ensure product availability. Review Incremental Gross Margin (IGM) and Gross Margin (GM) performance daily to meet sales and profit targets. Collaborate with sourcing and operations teams for stock planning and demand forecasting. Track and evaluate new product launches, pricing, promotions, and store execution. Prepare sales & loss reports, dashboards, and market trend analyses for range expansion. Lead new store launches (Smart Points) and train Customer Service Associates to improve buying efficiency.

Quality controller F&V at bigbasket.com, Sep 2020 - Aug 2022 · 2 yrs, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Quality controller FnV 1. QA ratings of inward quality of FnV. 2. Follow up with suppliers. 3. Maintaining AQR and DQR after every consignment. 4. Monitoring Customer complaints and corrective actions. 5. Rejecting commodity which does not meet the quality standards of the organisation. 6. Opting of good quality produce to minimise the wastage and to maximise the margins to the organisation. 7. Streamlines the operational process as per quality parameters. 8. Ensuring quality and minimising dump quantity in DC's. 9. Quality benchmarking of Market arrivals and competitors. 10. Ensuring online product quality and process monitoring according to standards and specifications by the organisation. 11. Ensuring 100% check of lots detected with under weight packs. 12. Support in trials for new articles at unit and resolve issues from the customers side. 13. Ensuring basic hygiene and food safety while packing. 14. Taking advance precautions and measures based on the seasonal articles.

Procurement Executive at KisanSaathi, Sep 2020 - Nov 2020 · 3 mos, Anekal, Karnataka, India, Negotiation is a major share of the procurement executive job. After securing the best pricing, terms and delivery options for each product or service, they settle the contract.

Business Development Executive at bigbasket.com, Feb 2020 - Sep 2020 · 8 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, B2B Mandi sales

FPO data assessment at Synergy Technofin Private Limited, Oct 2018 - Nov 2018 · 2 mos, Karnataka, India, Assessment of FPOs(farmer producing organisation) in Karnataka , under the guidelines of Mr.Rajesh Pant(General manager of

Education

bachelor of agriculture in UAS, B, Agriculture, General, University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore

Master of Business Administration - MBA, Agri & Food Business, Agri and food business Management