Regional Sourcing Manager - Intra-City Delivery Solutions Business

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Our client is a leading intra-city delivery solutions provider, that focuses on sorting out the largely unorganised logistics space in the country. It is also an aggregator of inter-city mini trucks and large transport vehicles for the Retail, Ecommerce and FMCG sectors. Their app is a platform used by their clients and truck owners, providing GPS enable vehicles, 24X7 support, economical pricing and multi-capacity loaders. Truckers can use their location and choose their transport jobs, while the companies get to pick the drivers as per their ratings.

With a fleet of over 44000 trucks and clients like Britannia, Bisleri, Amazon, Flipkart, Metro CashnCarry, Gati, Delhivery and more, the 5-year old platform has raised over $20Mn across multiple funding rounds. Founded and led by IIT-KG alumni, the company has operations in major cities across the country and looking to make inroads in other sectors and verticals.

As a Regional Sourcing Manager, you will be responsible for owning all aspects of sourcing of a region for the company. You will be working closely with Regional Head and National Sourcing Manager towards creating a high performing team which can deliver targets for a high growth company.

What you will do:

- Day to day sourcing for the region (Maharashtra and Gujrat)

- Working closely with business development team and operations team to ensure the client expectations are properly met in terms of time and quality of sourcing

- Building and developing the required team to achieve the targets

- Driving efficiencies to maintain sourcing service levels and expanding margins of the region

- Building and implementing processes to increase the overall efficiency and reliability of the region

- Participating in cross-functional projects for high priority initiatives and bringing process and data-driven focused approach to support the organization's goals

- Driving change management to ensure efficient implementations of any new strategic change

- Collaborating closely with stakeholders like Operations, Finance, Product, Sales and New initiatives with the objective to drive stakeholder success

- Ensuring excellent customer and partner experience

Desired Candidate Profile:

What you need to have:

- Graduates from Tier 1/2 Engineering colleges/Post Graduate from Tier 1/2 Management colleges with good academic performance

- 4-8 years of frontline Operation/sourcing/channel management experience or P&L Management

- Strong leadership qualities to lead a large geographically spread team

- Ability to manage conflicts and good stakeholder management skills

- Multi-tasking capabilities and inter departmental coordination

- Product first mindset and relevant experience is a useful plus

- Experience in channel management in B2C space will be very useful

- A strong team sport background is a plus (showcasing the long term commitment and rigor)