Chief Operating Officer/Business Head - eCommerce Startup Venture

Role - COO / Business Head ( for an e-Commerce Venture)

Reporting to - MD / Board

Location - Delhi NCR

The COO will provide operational leadership and management to strategize and operationalise business plans to achieve business and financial targets

Key Responsibilities:

- Identify, develop and implement long and short term strategic direction and plans. Take responsibility for planning and implementing the business strategies, plan, and procedures with clear objectives of company's performance and growth

- Prepare and implement annual budget and capital expenditure for the business operations.

- Initiate and implement an innovative environment and high performance culture to provide competitive edge for the business.

- Establish policies that promote company culture and vision

- Measures effectiveness and efficiency of operational processes both internally and externally and finds ways to improve processes

- Recruit skilled talent and build the best possible team

- Manage the operations team, overall daily operations and ensure that daily targets set and are being met.

- Provide mentoring to all employees, motivate staff to meet and surpass organisational and revenue goals

- Influence the product roadmap, plan with the tech team and coordinate to deliver as per the product roadmap.

- Participate in expansion activities (investments, acquisitions, corporate alliances etc.)

- Manage relationships with partners/vendor

- At the appropriate time, support in raising capital from external investors to help foster growth To succeed as the Chief Operating Officer, you will need to have an entrepreneurial mindset coupled with strong business acumen.

Key Requirements:

- Minimum 15 years' relevant experience of which at least 10 years must be in a senior management role

- Degree in a relevant discipline. MBA from a reputed institute

- A proven track record of personal, academic and professional achievement. Proven experience as COO or relevant role

- Prior experience in managing P&L

- Aptitude in decision-making and problem-solving

- Strong leadership, drive and ability to inspire and develop teams

- Working knowledge of data analysis and performance/operation metrics

- Candidate should be structured, analytical, pay attention to fine details, hands-on and ambitious.

- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills

- Experience in fundraising will be a plus