AM - Strategic Insights - Analytics - Online Optical Business - IIT/NIT/BITS

Why Lenskart :

- India is the blind capital of the world - Today, 1/3rd of India's population needs vision correction, however, only ~30% of those in need, currently wear glasses. Lenskart was co-founded in 2010 by Peyush Bansal, Amit Chaudhary & Sumeet Kapahi to solve this problem and provide Vision to India.

- Technology, innovation, and a passion to create enthusiastically satisfied customers, have been the pillars that have driven Lenskart's superlative (- 200% y-o-y) growth over the last 2 years and made it one of the top 3 businesses in Indian optical retail. We are now over 1400 employees strong and continue to grow 15% m-o-m!

To enable us to achieve our goal of revolutionizing eyewear, we are present whenever and wherever a customer thinks eyewear :

- Strong online presence, being the largest online optical retailer in India (including a 3D trial service, online)

- Home Trial Service across 50+ cities in India (- 500 trials/day)

- Home Eye Checkup in 7 cities (- 300 eye check-ups/day)

- 170+ Click & Mortar Stores pan India (including tier 2 and 3 cities) for customers to experience the Lenskart difference

- Network of Affiliate Doctors who place orders for their consumers online on the Lenskart platform

- Lenskart is backed by some of the most reputed and credible investors globally. In 2011, Lenskart raised its first round of funding (USD 3.3Million) from IDG Ventures India (IDGVI). In 2013, Ronnie Screwvala-led Unilazer Ventures, along with IDG again, invested around USD 8 Million in the company. In 2014, we raised Private equity investment from TPG Growth of 22 million USD. In April, 2016 we raised a Series D round from IFC, along with follow-on investments from existing investors. These have helped us serve over 20 Lac+ customers over the last 4 years.

What do I do :

- Give Vision to India as part of Lenskart's Strategy & New Initiatives team! Lenskart's Strategy team defines the strategy and growth roadmap for all of our businesses - Online, Offline, and Retention & Crossover; it is also responsible for implementing and executing this strategy to help the company become the No. 1 optical retailer in the country. We do everything from new market entry, channel growth, managing customer life-cycles, solving customer purchase pain-points, sales, to blue sky innovation.

Major Responsibilities :

The role will have the following key responsibilities :

- Working with different projects in the department to provide data-based and consumer insights

- Quantitative analysis to answer questions or solve issues/roadblocks to make a project a success

- Creating MIS reports and business dashboards to help projects stay on course and identify red flags

- Identifying root cause of the problems & analyzing impact of potential solutions

- Driving analytics for the department

- Deliver recommendations that are backed by sound logic and analysis

- Presenting findings to the team and other business stakeholders from time to time

Location : Faridabad

Key Relationships :

Reports to : Manager, Strategy

Key Qualifications for the role :

- Prior experience working in consulting / analytics / quantitative research required

Educational qualifications :

- BE/B.Tech from Tier I institute

- MBA preferred

- Courses in quantitative statistics, analysis / equivalent preferred

Analytical toolkit :

- Strong working knowledge of SQL, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint

- Strong working knowledge of Omniture & google analytics

- Knowledge of Tableau preferred

- Knowledge of FoxPro, SPSS/SAS strongly preferred

Key competencies :

- Excellent analytical and logical reasoning skills

- Sound presentation skills

- Business Intelligence/Competitive Intelligence assessment

- Ability to work with ambiguity

- JET SET execution speed

- Cultural fit (qualities that make someone succeed in this team)

- Willingness to learn, experiment, and try new things

- Ability to work with people across functions and levels

- Confidence to voice your opinion / push back with your point of view

- Not be satisfied with mediocrity