CEO - Start up - Ecommerce

We have an excellent opening with an upcoming online ecommerce portal. This is an online portal offering gift items ranging from collectibles, electronics, handicrafts to personalized items.

Company Overview

We offer online gift recommendation services, personalized gift ideas and great user experience to help shoppers save time and money by offering top quality gift items.

Description

Our sophisticated ecommerce technology coupled with Omni channel of customer experience ( web, social, contact centre) makes it a perfect platform for shoppers to gift their family members, friends, relatives, colleagues on any occasion. With the tailor made offerings suited for every personality, we aim to become one stop shop offering collectibles, electronics, novelty gift items and handicrafts. Launching soon, this venture is founded by top notch professionals from premium Institutes.


JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

- To take responsibility for Organization including full P&L - Being responsible for both top line and bottom line

- To provide leadership and direction for the business

- Developing Brand Vision to raise customer confidence

- Drive the business forward through successful implementation of new ideas and process where possible

- Raise the level of proficiency by influencing, training and recruiting staff. Development of staff is essential and is a core value of the Group

- Increase efficiencies and lead cross functional teams

- Create a go-to-market ecommerce business plan and will drive revenue and results.

- Define and communicate the strategy and create buy-in for this strategy along the way among the team members, Board and Venture Capitalists/Investors

- Delivering on targets set by the Board and responsible for teams

- The position will report to the Board of the Company

JOB REQUIREMENTS

Qualifications

- An Engineer from IIT or top 10 Engineering Colleges in India along with MBA from IIM or Executive MBA from top 20 Business Week Ranked Colleges

OR

A Graduate or An Engineer with Full time MBA from IIM or Executive MBA from one of the top 20 BusinessWeek Ranked Colleges

OR

An Engineer from IIT along with MBA from one of the top 20 MBA Colleges in India or top 100 BusinessWeek ranked Colleges.

OR

An Engineer from IIT along with Executive MBA from top 10 MBA Colleges in India or top 20 BusinessWeek ranked EMBA Programs.

A Relaxation in qualifications can be considered if the candidate comes with strong retail/ecommerce background.

Experience & Knowledge

- Must be having 8-10-plus years in retail/ecommerce/consumer products marketing organizations, with at least 1- 2 years as VP/president or CEO/COO,

- Successful experience with full P/L responsibilities

- Significant experience, in a lead role, in the development and successful implementation of key organizational strategies in relevant functional areas

- Demonstrable experience and skills in building positive and productive relationships, with colleagues, partners and customers

- Prior experience of working with start-up venture though not essential but preferred

- Experience of connecting with press, media and private equity/venture capital companies

Personal Attributes and Skills

- Excellent communication skills and ability to articulate an idea and execute.

- An effective leader, with the vision and direction to inspire teams for performance.

- Integrity, strong values and customer obsession.

- Strong leadership qualities to manage people effectively.

- Strong corporate ethos and effective team member

- Able to work effectively in a corporate environment, building effective relationships with employees and demonstrating political sensitivity

- Energy and ability to take challenging issues and resolve them

- Comfortable with the pressures and high level of accountability and associated responsibilities of a CEO role

If you are interested in exploring this great opportunity, Kindly send in your CV @ anushri.verma@virtuos.com, you can also call me @ 9810311959 for details on job description.

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