Express Stores - Manager - HR & People Operations

- We are a funded startup trying to disrupt the retail of India. We are looking for highly passionate HR manager to lead our recruitment and HR ops, who could build the business and culture along with us.

Manager, HR and People Operations (2-5 years of experience)

About Express Stores : 

Express Stores is an omnichannel startup (online and offline) startup by IIT Delhi, BITS Pilani grads. It is a platform for grocery stores to find trusted business solutions including supply, inventory management and customer relationship management tools. We aim to build a chain of 7/11 stores for India. Express Stores will be the go-to self enable platform for millions of Kirana stores in India to empower them with more business and to empower millions of customers to find right products, in a location nearest to their home with the best quality products, at affordable prices.

The founders have worked at UrbanClap, Jabong, Flyrobe, Wadi.com in India, Dubai and South East Asian Markets. You can read more about the founders at: Apoorv Jain, Kartik Gupta. We are a young, passionate team working on a tough but huge opportunity in India. We believe there is immense value (akin to serendipity) in giving customers the same value of Supermarkets in their neighborhood stores by making them larger, better, cleaner and cheaper.

We are backed by some of the best investors in this country, who share this vision with us.

- We are looking for our very first Manager of HR and People Operations.

- This is by far the most challenging and demanding position Express Stores has to offer, requiring proven skills and guts.

- As Express Stores's first HR, you will be responsible for establishing end-to-end processes for employees topline generation, filtration, recruitment, on-boarding and relationship management, culture building, administrative tasks etc.

- In a nut-shell, you will help the founding team crack the code on building the smartest that is out there to build to dominate the retail market in India.

- Once that code is cracked and the playbook defined, you will either launch Express Stores in other cities, or train future HR on the same.

Roles and responsibilities : 

Crack the code : 

- You will be expected to pick the 10+ roles in the company and work closely with founders to get the market leaders onboarded.

- You will be expected to think and build a great office environment through administrative tasks and office setup

- You will be expected to setup processes of people operations and ensure its adherence

Who are we looking for :

- 2-5 years of proven executional experience.

- Demonstrated leadership of teams and projects - Ability to influence and lead both internal teams and our potential candidates

- Hustle and get things done attitude

- Entrepreneurial DNA and dreams in your eyes

- Bachelors degree, Masters is a definitive plus

- Experience of working in a startup, or operations in FMCG / Oil & Gas is a plus

Location: Gurgaon

Compensation and perks

- Market competitive salary + equity, based on fit and profile

- Opportunity to shape the strategic direction of the company

- Making a difference: Impact the lives of our customers and the hundreds of thousands of service entrepreneurs we will partner with

- We have access to an amazing list of advisors and investors that we actively engage