TVS Supply Chain Solutions - Lead - Solution Design

Description:

Title: Lead - Solution Design

Role Objective:

- To lead end-to-end solution design for transportation, warehousing, and integrated logistics engagements.

- Ensuring cost-competitive, scalable, and execution-ready solutions that improve win rates, margins, and customer confidence.

Key Responsibilities:

Warehousing Solutioning:

- Design RDCs, FCs, spoke warehouses, line-feed and supermarket models.

- Develop space, manpower, MHE, productivity, and layout models.

- Drive optimization across SKU profiling, throughput, slotting, and shift planning.

Integrated Logistics Solutions:

- Architect end-to-end warehousing + transportation solutions with single commercial ownership.

- Design integrated visibility and control-tower-led operating models.

- Ensure smooth handover from solutioning to operations, minimizing go-live risk.

Transportation Solutioning:

- Design primary, secondary, in-city, milk-run, and line-haul networks.

- Develop vehicle mix, routing, frequency, km/trip-based cost models.

- Identify savings through route optimization, consolidation, utilization improvement, and carrier rationalization.

- Lead transport desk / 4PL solutioning, including governance and SLA frameworks.

Costing, Commercials & Risk:

- Own bottom-up costing, pricing, and margin protection.

- Partner with Finance to ensure commercial viability and risk mitigation.

- Define year-1 savings roadmap and steady-state cost levers.

Technology Enablement:

- Embed WMS, TMS, track-and-trace, and analytics into solutions.

- Ensure tech-led productivity, visibility, and compliance.

Stakeholder & Team Leadership:

- Act as solution SPOC for large RFQs and strategic customers.

- Work closely with Sales, Operations, IT, Finance, and Legal.

- Mentor solution design team and standardize templates, assumptions, and playbooks.

Success Metrics:

- RFQ win rate improvement.

- Cost competitiveness vs benchmarks.

- Margin adherence post go-live.

- Accuracy of assumptions vs actuals.

- Speed and quality of solution turnaround.

Experience:

- 12+ years in logistics / supply chain solutioning.

- Strong hands-on exposure to transport network design and warehousing solutions.

Education:

- MBA / PGDM (Operations / Supply Chain preferred).

- Engineering background preferred.

Core Skills:

- Transportation & warehousing cost engineering.

- Integrated solution architecture.

- Strong commercial and financial acumen.

- Stakeholder Management.