AVP - Engineering - SCM Domain - eCommerce

Reports to : VP - Engineering

Key Responsibilities

- Develop strategic and operational planning for the direction and control of product development activities.

- Formulate long-term objectives and standards of performance for the department.

- Assure that department achieves objectives and project completion within budget and time frame.

- Be a student of current industry trends, ensuring that the company maintains and expands its technology leadership position.

- Motivate staff and provide technical direction and guidance, as well as hands-on project management, recognizing the role as that of manager and support resource / mentor.

- Assure that product is designed for specific needs, but with wider applications in mind.

- Hire and direct staff group members to acquire necessary resources to meet scheduled commitments.

- Ensure implementation and refinement as required of formal process to support the product development process.

- Ensure that product development is focused on meeting and exceeding the customer requirements.

Ideal Experience

- 12 - 14 years- engineering experience, with at least 4 years in a management position

- Strong operational and project management skills

- Demonstrated team building and leadership skills

- Solid understanding of supply chain functions like sourcing, warehouse, manufacturing, delivery, logistics relevant to product design and development

- Experience of building technology platforms and products for supply chain functions

- Out of the box thinker- must be key driver contributing to the products roadmap and willing to take innovative product risk while balancing the road map for on time deliverables.

- Competent in electronic hardware and software design.

- Previously worked in an environment that requires exceptional scalability and extensibility

- Manage diverse, simultaneous projects of varying complexities.

- Strong relationship management, strategy development, project management, problem solving and change management skills.

- Education from a premier institute - BS in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science required; MA or dual BA preferred.

- Familiarity with current technology trends

- Worked in a fast growing environment

- Ability to work in a high pressure environment

Technical skills

- Strong experience in Java development, including Spring & Hibernate

- Experience in database design especially in

- MySQL and reasonable depth in NoSQL

- Up to date with current technology trends

- Exceptional design and architectural skills

- Good at designing highly scalable and extensible systems with very high performance.

- Designing and developing webservices, mostly REST.

- Expert in optimising algorithms

- Knowledge of theoretical idea about test automation.

People Management

At least 4 years of experience in managing 20-30 member team with multiple levels of hierarchy

- Should have managed a QA team at some point of time

- Should be good at managing intra/inter team communication

- Good at conflict resolution

- Should be able to speak for the entire tech team and be aware of projects in progress in depth

Project Management

Familiarity with agile/scrum processes

- Strong track record of meeting timelines for complex projects

- Should be able to coordinate across multiple stake holders and align technology with business goals.

Other skills

- Should be able to create short term (3-6 months) tech plans and long term (1-3 years) tech plans

- Should be able to create annual and quarterly tech budgets

- Should be good at resource planning

- Should have experience of handling third party vendors and some knowledge of outsourcing dev/QA work

- Should be an excellent judge of buy vs build decisions

Competencies for Success

Disruptive Thinking: In addition to the Technology expertise, the individual should be able to act as the trusted advisor to the VP-Engineering. S/he will do this by:

- Building a strong team by way of disruptive ideas and implementation

- dentifying new ideas for technology as well as to address both the short and long term company needs

- Should be very good with data and be able to identify trends and prioritize key opportunities to pursue

- Adept with trends & latest best practices. Should be willing to experiment & demonstrate - out of box- creativity in one's own area.

Display a strong entrepreneurial streak and take calculated risks to enable the business to grow exponentially.

Customer Centricity and Insights: The AVP-SCM should understand customer preferences and what makes them tick. S/he should deep dive into understanding customer behavior in an ever changing market place.

Should be obsessed with enhancing the consumer experience

- Understanding consumers well and using insights to develop the strategy

- Incorporating customer feedback and using that to better overall customer experience

- Should be extremely tech savvy to be able to contribute ideas for leveraging technology to enhance customer experience and for customer acquisition.

Team Leadership and Entrepreneurial Streak: The AVP-SCM will have the opportunity to lead and further build a dynamic team, tackling turnover and employee engagement in an entrepreneurial environment. S/he will do this by:

- Experimenting with ideas, with a sense of urgency, irrespective of the outcome, serving as an inspiration to the Lenskart team .

- Be a motivational leader, taking charge and leading the organization

- Being accountable for achieving the agreed upon targets

Personal Attributes

- Proven leadership ability

- Ability to set and manage priorities judiciously.

- Excellent written and oral communication skills.

- Excellent interpersonal skills.

- Ability to articulate ideas to both technical and non-technical audiences.

- Exceptionally self-motivated and directed.

- Keen attention to detail.

- Superior analytical, evaluative, and problem-solving abilities.

- Ability to motivate in a team-oriented, collaborative environment.

- Passion and commitment

- High integrity