Vice President - Business - eCommerce Startup

We are looking for a "VP Business" for one of our leading E commerce client.

The position is based at Bangalore.

About Our Client:

Our Client is a 2015 eCommerce startup. They are currently at a headcount of 600 and would be 2000 in 18 months from now. They are already profitable and have completed two rounds of funding.

Role:

Our Client is looking for VP Business. This is a new position due to an exponential growth of the Company.

Client is looking for a result oriented business leader to scale business, build sustainable processes and build people capability. They are in an aggressive growth phase thus looking for leader who is fungible, has ability and hunger to work in diverse start-up settings in functions ranging from Sales, Sourcing, Category management and Drive PnL. As a VP - Business, you will drive sustainable growth, profitability, people capability and prepare them for tomorrow

Job Description:

- Responsible for leading cross functional teams to grow our supply, demand and growth, while ensuring profitability

- Design, develop, implement sustainable processes, people capability and execution capability for sales, sourcing and category management functions

- Act a subject matter expert on growth and responsible for identifying innovative ways to grow faster

- Build a strong customer centric value proposition, influence cross functional teams to deliver the same - day in day out

- Deliver key metrics such as volume growth, customer growth, SKU penetration, gross Margin, retention and other health metrics

- Prepare growth teams for tomorrow - Define and build process, people capability and capacity to deliver business growth needs

- Improve consistency, reliability and predictability of Business functions

- Drive the maturity of different business functions such as Sales, sourcing and category to delight level and make these functions future ready.

- Excellent creative thinking skills with emphasis on developing innovative solutions to solve complex problems that may not have one clear answer.

- Subject matter expert in Sales, people development, process design and implementation

- Strong believer of technology and ability to leverage the same to drive efficiency .

- Strong people manager - handled layered teams with more than 200+ people - Experience with team development, performance management and delivering results.

- Strong process and data orientation - Ability to think strategically and execute tactically

- Demonstrated ability to influence Board level executives to on-field executives.

- High degree of business ethics and accountability

- Strong business and financial acumen.

- Should be analytically very strong and will be responsible for dealing with the support team and the priority issues