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Challenge Yourself. Create Better Lives.\nNinjacart is India’s largest agri tech company that's revolutionising the agri ecosystem. By harnessing technology, innovation, and ideas, we are building commerce, finance, and fulfilment solutions that help build better lives for agri citizens. Our role in the agri ecosystem is not to replace, but to uplift its farmers, traders, and retailers, and ultimately, the end consumer. By leveraging our strengths and resources, we innovate for new product categories and customer segments and also solve complex supply chain problems in the soil to sales journey.\nSo far, we have built products that cater to each segment and their unique needs - Ninjacart for retailers, Ninja Mandi for traders, Ninja Global for importers and exporters, Ninja Kirana for retailers, and Ninja Kisaan for farmers.\nWe are committed to our ultimate mission to build the most trusted, efficient and inclusive AgriTrade Network.\nSince Ninjacart’s inception in 2015, we have garnered support from visionaries and leaders across the globe who have put their faith in our vision. Our investors include Accel US, Syngenta Ventures, Neoplux, HR Capital, Trifecta Capital, Jo Hirao, Founder of ZIGExN, Accel India, Nandan Nilekani, Mistletoe, Qualcomm Ventures, Tiger Global, Flipkart, and Walmart. To know more, please visit: www.ninjacart.com\nRead More:\n#BetterLives For Every Agri Citizen https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7120720715909115905/\nHow Ninjacart has evolved in the last 8 years: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9Kts-O7tv4\nNinjacart Blog : https://www.ninjacart.com/blog/\nNandan Nilekani on Ninjacart https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ninja-cart_tech-pioneersatwork-ninjacart-activity-7027281166 617505792-pciW\nNinjacart Culture CODE: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ninja-cart_ninja-code-our-values-activity-70768214025483 8 40-KuL1\nLocation: Chennai\nResponsibilities\n1. Own up margins for select/ all fresh subcategories (fruits and vegetables) for a city.\n2. Own up the recovery of unsold inventory (Grade A/ dump) - ensure appropriate value realisation.\n3. Work closely with the procurement team to build a reliable vendor base in certain categories.\n4. 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