Head - Products & Solutions - Micro Retail Solutions Provider

India's largest micro retail solutions provider, is a rapidly expanding company backed by a Private Equity Fund. We are Nourishing Communities. Easier, Smarter, Safer! We're in search for experienced and passionate associates who have relentlessly high standards for delivering innovative and ground breaking services/solutions. Our group of professionals are used to working with multi-disciplinary teams and aspires to capitalize on talent as efficiently as possible. Aside from the required qualifications, if you love the journey of discovery through iteration, the team may have an opening for you.

Responsibilities:

- Will be the Chief of Staff to the CEO - managing products & solutions, overseeing Buying & Merchandising (products and categories) & Marketing departments.

- Will be the products/solutions custodian of the organization with the CEO. Ability to contribute/align/build on the CEO's solution(s) vision. Understands interplay between products, service, solution, business case and operationalization for Hardware and software both.

- Lives and breathes solutions: existing and potential, identifies both unserved and underserved needs. Constantly tracks markets and internal clients and consumers to make best in class solutions available ahead of time

- Regular stakeholder interactions: Head strategic initiatives for Micro Retail and business case, Buying & Merchandising for range and partners. Digital, Sales and Operations for dip sticks, business potential and operationalization

- Solution development and Solution management: Experience within project management, software & hardware development lifecycle, process and solutions design

- Builds Go-To-Market with Sales, Operations and Marketing

- Co owns P&L with Sales and Operations. Tracks products/solutions performance regularly to ensure plans/tweaks in time

- Work with cross functional teams for development of products, solutions and project management

- Govern and continuously improve the products/solutions based on implementation road map

- Problem solving, consumer centricity, spotting opportunities, solving problems, reducing friction

- Steer the technical direction for product and solution security mechanisms Requirements

- BE/B.Tech with MBA from institutes of repute

- 10+ years possessing strong teamwork skills, problem-solving skills & customer centricity skills

- Certification in project management is an added advantage

- Experience working with startups is a plus

- Expertise in Category Management is a plus

- Self-motivated with strong leadership skills & attention to details, unconventional, lateral thinker, challenging status quo

- Organized, structured and disciplined. Very high quality of work/attention to detail. Ability to collaborate effectively. Thinks through 360 degrees. Stitches up complete solutions/ensures no loose ends. Gets things done

- Familiar with software design principles, software architecture and security mechanisms

- Good analytical skills and act structured in a result- and quality-oriented manner

- Excellent verbal and written communications skills

Location - Mumbai