Procurement Manager Tea Blending

Job description:

Job Title: Procurement Manager Tea Blending

Work Location: Karachi, Pakistan

Job Type: Full Time

Information department  

Procurement

Your role

The Procurement Manager for Tea buying and blending at Lipton Teas and Infusions leads the technical and commercial aspects of blend creation, ensuring each product aligns with Lipton’s signature taste, quality, cost, and sustainability standards. You will oversee raw material sourcing for blends and work closely with R&I, procurement, supply chain, and quality teams to deliver consistent, innovative, and responsible products for Pakistan markets.

Your Key Tasks:

Design, manage, and refine tea blends (black, green, specialty) in partnership with Tea buying office in key sourcing locations and R&I.

Ensure blends consistently deliver the Lipton signature flavor across batches, considering terroir, seasonality, and supplier variability.

Bring knowledge and expertise, including better understanding of the process, should cost model, supplier, competitor and market intelligence to maximize values of the spends and drive value creation

Conduct organoleptic evaluation of incoming teas—assessing appearance, aroma, taste, and mouthfeel against specifications.

Regularly and proactively conduct the blend performance comparison with the markets in your scope of responsibility and within tea category team

Execute sourcing strategy, optimum blend cost, effective buying and negotiation tools

Deliver cost, cash - inventory, quality and supply resilience

Issue blend schedules to manufacturing units, aligning demand forecasts and production requirements.

• Maintain static data in Lipton’s operating systems, manage blend documentation, and ensure accuracy in master data.
• Monitor real-time blend and stock performance
• Manage local tea purchasing and ensure purchasing agreement in place and compliance to Source–to–Pay process
• Comply to Responsible sourcing and Sourcing Sustainability policy
• Support growth agenda and innovation pipeline
• Provide timely input to cost estimation, budgeting for both business plan revision and product launch

Stakeholder Management and key interfaces

• Collaborate and manage stakeholders within Procurement function and other Cross Functional Teams
• Build network with industrial peers, tea associations, and external stakeholders
• Engage externally representing Lipton Teas and Infusions in key multi stakeholder forums.

Skills and Experience

Minimum 5 years of experience in tea/coffee blending, sensory evaluation, or procurement in food/beverage industry. Strong sensory assessment capability and commercial. You possess strong academic record, with minimum bachelor’s degree in business administration, food science, or food engineering, and are eager to make a positive impact.

• Passion for precision and consistency in tea quality
• Action oriented and Drive for results
• Great analytical skill
• Towering strength in stakeholder engagement
• Negotiation
• Excellent Business and Commercial Acumen
• Language Requirement: Proficiency in English communication.

Who we are looking for

A highly motivated individual with passion to create values in Tea supply chain, stay curious and enthusiastic, insightful, and framing. You need to be bold and driven for transformation. If you are people and team - oriented who enjoy working collaboratively with others, with internal teams and external organizations across the globe, you are the right candidate for this role.

What's in it for you?

We believe that growth is for everyone, we believe in growing leaders and making space to grow an owner’s mentality and like nature we adapt, we change and we grow. We believe in connections over hierarchies and (work)levels. We have a 'corporate start-up' approach; we act with speed and agility and we have the strength and scale of a large corporation. We are building a better world of wellbeing and a better you.

Excited about the Role?

Please apply online. Your application will be reviewed against our requirements, and we will be in touch to provide you with an update on the status of your application.