Urban Ladder - Associate - Supply Chain Excellence

Company Information :

Urban Ladder is a leading online furniture company that aims to provide a curated destination for home solutions, to help the Urban Indian build well-furnished, beautiful homes.

With over 1000 products and 25 categories such as sofas, beds, dining tables, storage shelves, etc. Urban Ladder is India's leading online furniture company.

Urban Ladder is backed by top tier venture capital firms Steadview Capital, SAIF Partners and Kalaari Capital and Sequoia Capital. Mr. Ratan Tata, Chairman Emeritus of Tata Sons has also made a personal investment in Urban Ladder.

In February 2014, Urban Ladder bagged the "Best Digital Start-up" Award at the fourth India Digital Awards organised by IAMAI.

About Supply Chain Excellence at UL :

If you love the pursuit of excellence and are inspired by the challenges that come through driving innovations and its impact on business, then this is the right place for you - Supply Chain Excellence at UL offers unique opportunities to work on high-impact projects in an environment that appreciates collaborative problem solving and recognizes exceptional contribution.

The Supply Chain Excellence Associate will be responsible for ensuring efficient and effective Processes are in place to support the Supply Chain team's business objectives. The role will be responsible for working directly with cross-functional groups such as Operations, Sourcing, Inventory planning, logistics, and Analytics to improve existing capabilities as well as to launch new enhancements. Identifying trends, building short and long-term Operational strategies to drive successful implementation by collaborating with various teams will be some of the ways this role will drive impact within the organization.

Responsibilities :

- Propose innovative and cost-effective processes, policies, systems based on supply chain business data and metrics.

- Monitor key metrics of business process adherence, drive improvement.

- Lead and collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and drive measurable impact to supply chain deliverables.

- Be the interface to project management on continuous improvement initiatives. Drive standardization, training, and governance to ensure process deployment and controls.

Primary Skills and Functional Experience :

- Analytical Problem Solving : Use the relevant information to identify trends and outliers in data. Offer practical solutions to complex problems.

- Quick Learner : Adaptability, demonstrate technical acumen and curiosity.

- Project Management/Cross-Functional Collaboration : Ability to manage and drive projects across teams, and to garner support for collaborative activities from managers and peers.

- Communication : Clear and concise written and verbal communication

Competencies required for Success in This Role :

- Customer Focus

- Problem Solving

- Ownership & Drive

- Collaboration and Teamwork

- Creativity and Innovation

Salary Offered : 6-9 LPA