Sourcing Specialist- Food Ingredients

About Elchemy

Elchemy is a tech-enabled, cross-border specialty chemicals distribution platform helping companies across the US and Europe source high-quality chemical raw materials from trusted manufacturers across Southeast Asia and beyond. We operate at the intersection of discovery, quality assurance, and fulfillment, simplifying what has traditionally been a fragmented and opaque procurement process. By combining deep industry expertise with a technology-first approach, we enable faster sourcing, greater reliability, and scalable global supply chains for our customers.

In just 3 years of operations, Elchemy has scaled rapidly, serving customers in over 55 countries and building active partnerships with 200+ suppliers across more than 15 manufacturing geographies. Our platform supports a wide range of specialty chemical applications, helping businesses access the right materials with confidence and speed. Our vision is to build the world's largest global specialty chemicals distributor, reimagining the industry through technology-led discovery, seamless fulfillment, and data-driven decision-making.

Elchemy is backed by marquee investors and has raised over $7.5 million to date. Our team brings together alumni from IITs, IIMs, and NITs, along with professionals who have built and scaled startups and worked across global multinational organizations. We are here to fundamentally transform the $800B specialty chemicals industry - making it more transparent, efficient, and globally connected through new-age technology.

Role Description

This is a full-time, on-site role for a Sourcing Specialist - Food Ingredients based in Mumbai. The Sourcing Specialist will be responsible for supplier identification, procurement, and contract negotiation for food ingredients. Day-to-day responsibilities include evaluating supplier costs, ensuring product quality, managing supplier relationships, and optimizing the supply chain. The role will also involve sourcing new suppliers, tracking industry trends, and collaborating closely with internal teams to align purchasing strategies with organizational goals.

   Roles and Responsibilities:

• Initiate, develop and nurture relationships with manufacturing and trading companies in India and across the globe mainly in the Food sector including categories such as sweeteners, oils, essential oils, fats, nutraceuticals, and food additives.
• Work closely with the sales and marketing teams to understand their sourcing requirements and get them the best sourcing opportunities possible, making sure that supply is never a constraint to fulfil an order
• Negotiating prices, contracts, and payment terms for spot and recurring businesses
• Put utmost importance on turnaround times to get the best possible rate quotations within the shortest possible time
• Identify potential new suppliers, explore partnership opportunities, and develop strategies to attract more suppliers to work with us
• Alignment of sourcing strategies with various stakeholders in sales, operations and finance team for execution
• Be at the top of latest industry trends and developments by keeping eyes and ears on the ground to take advantage of various opportunities
• Build a strong market intelligence database updated with the latest information from the supplier side
• Give utmost importance to suppliers and build long-term relationships by creating regular and quick feedback loops with them

Skills and Qualifications:

• Minimum 4+ years of experience in sourcing sweeteners, oils, essential oils, fats, nutraceuticals, and food additives.
• Possess strong relationships with manufacturers and traders in this industry
• Knowledge of right databases to explore and right companies to reach out to for sourcing new chemical requirements
• Ability to build a strong market intelligence for various chemicals in terms of pricing trend, geographical advantage, supply disruptions, raw material pricing etc.
• Having bias towards action and do not mind getting their hands dirty to take care of sourcing operations
• Excellent management, relationship building and networking skills
• Should have an entrepreneurial mindset and strong business acumen