Vice President - Business Intelligence & Information Technology - Startup

Summary

We are a fast-paced, venture backed, mission-driven company that's addressing the massive market opportunity to sell solar-as-a-service in rural India. We- re building a world-class team committed to changing the way people buy solar. We're looking for a forward thinking, ambitious VP- BIT. The successful candidate will lead the day-to-day IT and BI operations of this fast growing company.

About Us

We sell solar-as-a-service to energy poor households and micro-enterprises in rural India. The company has a bold mission: to make modern energy simple, affordable, and accessible to everyone. The company is backed by well known global investors such as the Asian Development Bank, Vinod Khosla's Impact Fund, Schneider Electric, Engie Rassambleurs d- Energies and others.

Our customers make a small initial payment to get a high-quality solar PV system installed. Then it's simply pay-as-you-go for the energy service. Each payment for energy also adds towards the final purchase price. Once fully paid, the system unlocks permanently and delivers free solar energy. The innovative pricing model is called Progressive Purchase, and we are growing quickly in northern India. We help our customers transform a daily expenditure for energy into ownership of a valuable asset. The award-winning business model is disruptive and highly scalable, re-imagining the value chain for delivering energy access at the base of the economic pyramid.

The company is scaling quickly and IT and BI are central to our ability to address the massive market opportunity. In real time we collect large amounts of data about how our customers use our solutions, about the technical performance of our products, about customer payment behaviour, about our large and mobile field force (sales & service), about our customer interactions, about our supply chain logistics network. This is big data, and a massively exciting platform for a strategic and action oriented IT professional to lead.

Responsibilities

The VP-BIT will be a critical senior member of our leadership team and will help shape the company's IT and business strategy. The primary responsibility of the VP will be to create and deliver a business-led Business Intelligence and IT strategy. The position will report to the CEO of the company.

This is a new role for this fast growing company so the VP will be expected to build new processes and operating routines to ensure excellence in execution.

The VP's responsibilities will include, but are not limited to, the following:

Business Intelligence Strategy:

Develop a coherent BI Strategy that will enable 100X growth in the business over the next few years. Grounded in a deep understanding of our business, the VP will create a long term strategy to leverage IT and BI to create new customer value, to improve and automate key business processes, and to enable exponential growth and scale.

Process and Analytics Automation:

You will create and deliver business relevant real-time data analytics to help us understand our business in new ways and to make smarter data-driven decisions. Create effective dashboards and data visualizations to drive analysis of our big data.

You will develop a deep understanding of our business process workflows and drive automation of key business processes. You will evolve our ERP, CRM, and remote field force management tools; you will create value for customers, employees and channel partners through automation and real-time availability of essential information.

Project / Release Management:

You will have overall responsibility for leading software development both in-house and through our technology partners and make decisions about the strategic mix. We are a delivery-focused, performance oriented culture and you will ensure we deliver BI and IT solutions on time and on budget. You will introduce and drive world-class processes to ensure the priorities are clear, aligned, and delivered. You will work across the organization to understand business requirements, to drive processes for prioritization, to drive delivery and adoption of new back-end and front-end IT solutions.

Qualifications and Competencies:

Strong project management skills;

Passion about the transformative potential of technology;

Genuine interest in Simpa's business and a business-first approach;

Disciplined and process oriented;

Ability to lead teams with empathy and interest in their career development;

Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, extreme growth environment. Entrepreneurial i.e. open to learning, flexible, adaptable, and thirsty for personal impact. You have strong sense of ownership, drive and motivation to make projects successful;

Strong analytical, problem solving & technical skills with confident decision making;

Experience of process automation and field force mobility in high-volume low ticket transaction environments e.g. retail or financial services (e.g. MFI, consumer finance)

Compensation: A combination of cash and stock options, leading to a market competitive package.

How to Apply:

Apply and submit a Cover Letter. We will shortlist candidates and invite shortlisted candidates for interview.

In your cover letter, please tell us what about us interests you, and how you can contribute to our company's mission.

- Only short-listed candidates will be contacted to set up an interview. We hope to hear from you!