Program Associate – Market Development for MSME, Northeast India ( Contract to Hire )
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30+ days ago
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Job Summary
Market Linkages for Feed Food and Fiber Enterprises
- Develop end-to-end market linkages for decentralized enterprises across feed food and fiber value chains including eri silk garments and processed food products.
- Map and engage with local regional and national buyers including wholesalers retailers aggregators institutional buyers exporters and social enterprises.
- Identify product-wise market opportunities based on volume quality pricing and delivery timelines suitable for decentralized production models.
Eri Silk & Fiber-based Products (Garments Textiles Handloom)
- Build market connections for eri silk yarn fabric stoles shawls garments and home textile products produced at community and cluster levels.
- Engage with handloom buyers designers boutiques cooperatives government emporiums and ethical fashion brands.
- Support enterprises in product development aligned with market trends including design inputs sizing color palettes and seasonal demand.
- Facilitate order aggregation across multiple decentralized units to meet buyer volume requirements.
- Support pricing strategies that balance fair producer margins and market competitiveness.
Food Processing & Value-added Food Products
- Establish market linkages for locally processed food products such as spices millets pulses fruits and vegetable products bakery items and traditional foods.
- Identify channels including local markets retail stores hotels restaurants institutional buyers exhibitions and online platforms.
- Ensure enterprises meet basic market compliance requirements including labeling packaging shelf-life and food safety standards.
- Coordinate with buyers to plan production schedules aligned with seasonal availability and DRE-powered processing capacity.
- Support enterprises in developing repeat orders and long-term buyer relationships.
Feed and Allied Products
- Develop market connections for feed and allied products produced through decentralized units (where applicable) including supply to farmer groups livestock units and local enterprises.
- Support enterprises in identifying bulk buyers and institutional demand to ensure regular turnover.
- Facilitate agreements or informal MoUs with buyers for consistent offtake.
Qualifications :
- Bachelors degree in business administration Rural Management Economics Agriculture Social Sciences or related fields.
- 2-5 years of experience in market development enterprise promotion value chain development or livelihood programs.
- Prior experience working in North-East India is highly preferred.
- Experience with producer collectives SHGs FPOs MSMEs or social enterprises is desirable.
- Strong understanding of local and regional markets in Meghalaya and Nagaland.
- Ability to build and manage multi-stakeholder partnerships.
- Practical experience in enterprise SOP development and implementation.
- Good communication negotiation and coordination skills.
- Willingness to travel extensively in rural and remote areas.
Additional Information :
Customized Energy Solutions offers competitive salary commensurate with experience. This is contract to hire role for 6 months.
Customized Energy Solutions provides equal employment opportunities to all applicants without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability or status as a protected veteran.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Contract
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Customized Energy Solutions (CES), a privately-held company, is a leading service provider of market intelligence and operational support services to companies participating in the retail and wholesale electric and natural gas markets. Utilizing deep know-how developed since the incep ... View more
