Licious - Program Manager - Strategic Initiatives

We are Licious and we are a Bengaluru based meat and seafood company founded in 2015 by Abhay Hanjura and Vivek Gupta, our founders, foodies and friends. We pride ourselves on being Indias most successful D2C food-tech brand operating in 20 cities across the country delighting over 32 lac customers with our de-licious fresh meat and seafood!

Think you have what it takes to be the magic ingredient in the recipe that is Licious? Read on

What makes the role meaty?:

- Own, drive and manage 30+cost-focused strategic initiatives across upstream supply chain

- Work on founder and leadership priority programs to improve cost, service levels, scalability, and resilience

- Act as the bridge between strategy, analytics, and on-ground supply chain execution

- Own initiatives end-to-end: cost reduction, capacity planning, network optimisation, and productivity improvement

- Translate ambiguous problems into structured workplans with clear milestones and owners

- Drive execution rigor through governance, reviews, and escalation management

- Deep-dive into unit economics, COGS, yield, wastage, productivity, and inventory health

- Build business cases for sourcing, processing, logistics, automation, and capex investments

- Work on manufacturing footprint, PC capacity, warehouse and logistics network design

- Support scale-up and expansion with data-backed capacity and capex planning

- Identify bottlenecks and design solutions for peak demand and scale scenarios

- Partner with Procurement, Production, Quality, Category, Finance, and Tech teams

- Drive process simplification, SOP standardisation, and tech-led transformations (ERP, WMS, demand planning)

- Prepare crisp dashboards and decision notes for senior leadership

- Ensure sustainability and smooth handover of initiatives to business teams

We hope that you have..

- 5-10 years of experience starting with Big 4 / Tier-1 Consulting (Deloitte, PwC, EY, KPMG) followed by hands-on supply chain / operations roles

- Proven exposure to supply chain transformation, cost take-out, or network design

- Experience in D2C, Food, FMCG, Manufacturing, or Consumer businesses preferred

- Strong structured problem-solving with ability to translate strategy into execution

- Deep understanding of end-to-end supply chain and unit economics

- Strong stakeholder management across leadership and plant/ops teams

- High proficiency in Excel / Sheets, presentations, and data dashboards