Varaha - Lead - Carbon Supply

Lead Carbon Supply

Company Introduction :

Varaha is a tech startup at the intersection of - climate, agriculture and technology. The startup uses technologies such as Remote sensing, Blockchain, Science-based quantification tools and models. The mission of the company is to provide nature as a solution to climate change while helping increase farmer income. The founders and founding team comes with a stellar track record of building and leading businesses from scratch.

Position : Lead - Carbon Supply

About the role :

Carbon Credit Supply

The team is responsible for establishing and managing the processes, systems, and tools related to the launch of our operations in new geographies, hiring and deploying teams and rapidly onboarding users. The Carbon Credit Supply function also supports the implementation of best-practices and standards across all the districts we operate in and ensures that our carbon credit supply activities are architected for growth, rapid change and on demand/on site deployment of any new projects.

About the Role :

- The Lead of Carbon Supply is responsible for providing overall leadership to the operations and credit supply teams in the territory as well as monitoring the state's growth and ensuring the quality of regenerative agricultural land brought on board by each state's manager.

- This is a highly hands-on job, involving intense project management, multi team coordination, and deep technical knowledge of all areas of agriculture and carbon credit supply.

- For this role, we need someone who has experience of working in a fast growth, multi-unit environment, managing complex operations and processes, and who proactively dives into the nitty gritty to improve processes and systems.

Job Responsibilities :

- Develop annual planning on geographies and strategic ways of user onboarding

- Identify, qualify, and manage farmers', FPO's, partners, and stakeholders' relationships, ensuring that we get quality data as per requirements and specifications at the best cost on per farmer's onboarding within required timelines.

- Improve overall cost efficiencies by identifying best processes and practices

- Work with various internal stakeholders to accurately and consistently forecast what will be needed, and when.

- Design carbon supply and management strategies alongside District & State teams to eliminate any issues

- Lead the charge to ensure that we are getting the high quality data from each operating region

- Support the implementation of best-practice and standards in all our regions and ensure that our operational activities are architected for growth, cost effectiveness, and on demand/on site deployment of any new projects.

- As well as building a zero tolerance environment for fraud and leakage.

Skills Required :

- Bachelor's degree required. MBA is preferred

- Minimum of 6-8 years of experience with Sales, operations, Growth, and/or Expansions.

- Agritech/Climate startup experience is preferred.

- Minimum of 5 years of experience in a senior manager or high growth role is preferred

- Excellent organisational, leadership, analytical problem solving and strategic thinking skills

- Ability to build cross-functional partnerships and engage in and lead cross-functional teams and initiatives

- Ability to discuss a wide range of topics from business strategy to the tactical execution of the strategy

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills

- Must be able to work in a fast-paced environment with dynamic priorities and demands

- A detailed doer - has a track record of getting things done

- A creative problem-solver and a data-driven decision-maker