Head of Sourcing (Fish & Sea Food) Full Time NEW

We are Licious and we are a Bengaluru based meat and seafood company founded in 2015 by Abhay Hanjura and Vivek Gupta, our founders, foodies and friends. We pride ourselves on being India’s most successful D2C food-tech brand operating in 20 cities across the country delighting over 32 lac customers with our de-licious fresh meat and seafood!

Think you have what it takes to be the magic ingredient in the recipe that is Licious? Read on…

What makes the role meaty?

1. Strategic Sourcing & Demand Alignment

• Design and execute sourcing strategies aligned to business demand cycles, seasonality, and volatility of fish & seafood.
• Translate demand forecasts into structured sourcing plans, moving beyond spot buying to predictable, scalable models.
• Build sourcing playbooks that balance availability, cost, and quality across cycles.

2. Modernizing Traditional Procurement

• Challenge and improve legacy buying practices prevalent in the fish and seafood ecosystem.
• Introduce data-led procurement, contracting frameworks, and performance tracking.
• Build alternate sourcing models (contracts, clusters, aggregation, imports) to reduce volatility and dependency.

3. Cost, Margin & Commercial Ownership

• Own buying prices, inflation management, and cost normalization across species.
• Drive negotiations and commercial structures that protect margins while ensuring partner sustainability.
• Work closely with Finance on budgets, forecasts, and variance explanations.

4. Vendor Ecosystem & Capability Building

• Build a diversified ecosystem of farms, fishermen groups, processors, exporters, and aggregators.
• Develop vendors to meet Licious’ standards on quality, consistency, traceability, and compliance.
• Reduce concentration risk and improve vendor reliability through long-term partnerships.

5. Quality, Compliance & Consumer Trust

• Partner with Quality teams to uphold stringent food safety, freshness, and shelf-life standards.
• Ensure sourcing decisions protect consumer experience and brand trust, not just cost.
• Drive initiatives that improve yield, shelf life, and cold-chain integrity.

6. Cross-Functional Leadership

• Work closely with Category, Retail Stores, Demand Planning, Operations, Quality, and Supply Chain teams.
• Enable category teams with sourcing options and substitution strategies during supply disruptions.
• Act as the sourcing voice in leadership discussions.

7. Team Leadership

• Lead and develop regional sourcing teams.
• Build a culture of accountability, ownership, and continuous improvement.
• Attract and groom talent capable of operating in complex, high-volatility environments.

We hope that you have…

• 10–18+ years in procurement / sourcing leadership roles
• Experience may come from meat, seafood, agri, FMCG, dairy, QSR supply chains, or commodities
• Demonstrated success in transforming traditional procurement environments
• Prior exposure to fish & seafood sourcing is preferred but not mandatory if category understanding is strong

Mindset & Capabilities (Critical)

• Deep understanding of how procurement functions work end-to-end
• Strong curiosity and passion for the fish & seafood category
• Proven ability to challenge status quo buying practices
• Ability to design solutions that fit business demand cycles, not just supply availability
• Strong commercial acumen and negotiation skills
• Calm, structured, and data-driven decision-maker