Udaan - City Head - Stapels - IIT/IIM

About Udaan:

UDAAN is about making business easy in India, about making B2B commerce convenient and efficient. We believe B2B is the new B2C in India.

India has 50m+ SMBs, who form core of Indian economy and society. They are the entrepreneurial pulse of India. We believe internet is a great equalizing platform. We want to bring our energies together in bringing power of Internet to these millions of entrepreneurs.

Udaan is a B2B trade platform for small & medium businesses in India. It brings traders, wholesalers, distributors, retailers and manufacturers in India on to a single platform. At Udaan we are looking to create a fundamentally disruptive value proposition for small and medium businesses across India.

If you are a small and medium business in Food & FMCG, Clothing or Electronics, Udaan gives you the power to:

- FIND customers, suppliers & products across categories

- DEAL directly with businesses of interest & discuss trade

- BUY & SELL on your terms - with secure payments & smooth logistics

- GROW your network through repeats & relationships with like-minded parties

Udaan is poised to be to B2B trade what Whatsapp is to social communication and Facebook is to social networking!

Visit us at - https://udaan.com to enter your mobile number to download the Udaan app at Google Play or Apple app store.

Founders Profile:

Amod Malviya : Alumnus of IIT Kharagpur. Ex CTO at Flipkart. He was responsible for building Flipkart's Tech stack across functions from scratch. He is one of the most renowned leaders in the tech space in India, and is a major proponent of Open source.

Sujeet Kumar : Alumnus of IIT Delhi. Ex President (COO) at Flipkart. Third Employee at Flipkart and established the business from scratch. He led business, and supply chain and was responsible for introducing COD in India and also set up Flipkart's own supply chain network Ekart

Vaibhav Gupta : An alumnus of IIT Delhi and Darden School of Business. Ex McKinsey and Ex SVP Finance, Analytics and Strategy at Flipkart. Led Product, Supply chain, business finance and strategy. Was responsible for fund raising.

What we believe:

- At UDAAN, simplicity is our core. We believe great value is created by simple ideas. UDAAN is about simplifying business in India. UDAAN is about making B2B commerce convenient and efficient.

- India has 50m+ SMBs, who form core of Indian economy and society. They are the entrepreneurial pulse of India. We believe internet is a great equalizing platform. We want to bring our energies together in bringing power of Internet to these millions of entrepreneurs.

- This is the mission of UDAAN.

Roles and Responsibilities

- Responsible for managing the entire P&L for Stapels and Food business of the city

- Hiring and managing teams of exceptional caliber in that city

- Figuring out the right supply strategy for that city - National Sourcing v/s Collection Center v/s Mandi Buying

- Acquiring and growing demand from all type of portfolios within that city - Stapels and Food Kirana Shops, HoReCa etc

- Working closely with supply chain team and problem solve with them to ensure all ops metrics remain on track

- Working closely with supply chain to figure out the right network design for that city

- Making the credit strategy for that city and implementing it

- Building and managing various teams including supply, demand, buying, quality etc.

- Figuring out the right vendor mix and building a robust procurement team to negotiate best prices for buying Stapels and Food

- Building and managing a strong sales team to generate demand