Jerome H

Tea industry professional with 27+ years of experience in tea tasting, tea buying, blending, quality assurance, production planning, import-export operations, and product development. Extensive expertise in value-added tea products, tea premixes, coffee premixes, procurement, supply chain coordination, and factory operations.

Consultant - Sugandh Tea Co. - Delhi

(2026-01)

New Project Production & Planning Advisor - SAF Trading Co. - Pollachi

(2026-01)

Consultant – Tea Blending & Buying - T. Stanes & Company - Coimbatore

(2026-01)

Consultant – Tea Bags & Packaging - Fresh & Honest - Chennai

(2026-01)

Manager – Blending - The Peria Karamalai Tea & Produce Co. Ltd.

(2022-01 - 2025-12)

• Fully responsible for the functioning and operation of the blending unit
• Solely responsible for buying, tasting and selecting teas as per required standards.

Senior Manager – Tea Operations - Indian Products Pvt. Ltd. - Coimbatore

(2016-01 - 2021-12)

• Responsible for entire tea operations right from tasting and selecting teas for buying, preparations of blend sheets of import & domestic teas, arranging tea blends for processing the finished products of Decaffeinated and raw tea blend standards.
• Entirely responsible for planning of shipments for Import and Export of Teas.
• Planning and submit projection for buying plans for the import tea requirement annually from Argentina, Vietnam & East African teas.
• Generating blend sheets from raw tea blends, processed tea blends and finished tea blends as per required standards and specifications.
• Advise the purchase team for the weekly purchase of auction and private buying (only required specialized teas) for the required standards and quality for production.
• Planning and working with the decaffeination job work companies for process schedule and arranging blends on time for process.
• Co-coordinating with the export marketing team and logistic team for shipping arrangements of finished products and coordinating with the purchase team for prompt delivery of goods.
• Cross checking of stock physically on monthly basis with the go down and process areas to plan blending and packing

Manager – Quality Assurance - Sri Narasu's Coffee Company Ltd. - Salem

(2007-01 - 2016-12)

• Fully responsible for entire quality aspects of Tea buying, Tasting, blending and packing.
• Additional to the above, was responsible for the Roasted & Ground Coffee and Instant Coffee tasting, confirming the quality as per standards for both domestic and export requirements.
• R&D process for new products and other products of Narasu's Brands.

Tea Tasting Assistant - A.V. Thomas & Company - Coimbatore

(2000-12 - 2007-07)

• Looking after and assisting in tea tasting of both south Indian and North Indian Teas .
• Marking catalogues and selecting Teas for buying.
• Preparation of blend sheets and issuing for blending as per Standards for both South Indian and North Indian tea blends for domestic markets for Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Andhra & Karnataka for both Leaf & Dust grades.

Tea Buyer & Taster - Ashok Tea Agency - Coonoor

(1995-01 - 2000-12)

• Selection and marking catalogues to buy tea for Exporters.
• Tasting and marking of teas as per standards for different buyers.
• Looking after all external official matters.