DeHaat - Senior Manager/AVP - Farmer Credit

About Us:

DeHaat's one-stop solution incorporates an online marketplace alongside a rural network of service delivery centers, which together radically increase the profitability of farmers on the platform. At the same time, DeHaat brings transparency and efficiency across the entire agricultural value chain for B2B partners, including agri input companies, financial institutions, and commodity bulk buyers.

Based in Gurgaon and Patna, DeHaat was founded in 2012 by alumni of IIT Delhi, IIT Kharagpur, IIM Ahmedabad, and other premier institutions. Currently the DeHaat platform supports over 400,000 farmers across Bihar, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh, and Odisha, bringing them 500+ agri input SKUs, exhaustive advisory content for major crops, and 100+ commodity bulk buyers after they harvest.

Responsibilities :

- Creating new Lending products to meet the financial requirement of the Farmers via DeHaat Ecosystem

- Responsible for creating the Credit underwriting Model for Farmer Credit Products

- Responsible for implementing the Sales and Distribution strategy for Farmer Credit Products

- Manage and formalize the processes wing -2-wing operationally

- Ensure smooth functioning of processes between all stakeholders

- Own the SLAs of the processes set for Farmer Financing

- Drive the lending team to achieve monthly lending targets

- Ability to work in a fast pace environment and to perform under pressure

- Stakeholder Management -

a) Engaging with different stakeholders - partners, vendors, local and central cross-functional teams to deliver the best output

b) Should have excellent communication and leadership skills to work in a dynamic environment.

Required Skills:

- 5+ years of work experience in Rural financing industry dealing with Farmer Credit Products

- Past experience in Credit Underwriting of Farmer Loans - Secured and Unsecured both.

- MBA from Tier 1 B School is preferred

- Strong operational skills

- Analytical and data driven

- Excellent Communication