LEAD School Hiring For Vice President of Supply Chain Management at Mumbai, India Full Time

VP-SCM

About us:

LEAD is the market leader and the first edtech UNICORN of 2022. It is the fastest-growing School EdTech company in India. Fortune has recognized us as one of India’s top 24 Employers of the Future in June 2022. We partner with Affordable Private Schools across the country and empower them with the tools and resources that transform them into centers of excellence. Our enhanced performance monitoring tools, dedicated lesson plans, and tech-based solutions enable educators to provide students with the best education.

Our mission is to provide excellent education to every child. We have seen rapid adoption growing 13X over the last two years with our School Integrated System implemented in over 3500 schools across the country.

LEAD – Growth Highlights:

• Raised $100 Mn in a Series E round and became the first Ed Tech Unicorn of 2022 (Business Standard – LEAD becomes first edtech unicorn of 2022)
• Our co-Founder & Co- CEO Smita Deorah is the only leader from India to win the Power of Women (POW) 2022 award held in the USA (ASU+GSV Summit)
• LEAD has won in the ‘Most Innovative Product/Service‘ sub-category, (‘Unicorn’ category), at the Businessworld Unicorn Awards 2022
• We are building a B2B + At-home Learning business, which is a US $14B market opportunity across 120 Mn Private School students in India, alone.
• Education Leadership Award by American Leadership Board in 2018.
• Best School Management Award in 2019.

JOB DESCRIPTION

Purpose of the Job:

The Supply Chain Head leads the supply chain management strategy to meet the product delivery needs of the students, teachers, parents and school owners of affordable private schools.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage the Planning function to ensure that it delivers against agreed objectives, respecting current Good Manufacturing Practice, Good Distribution Practice, quality considerations, budgets, manufacturing and shipping constraints and market requirements.
• Ability to visualize supply chain for larger scale; build & execute supply chain strategy for future. Develop and innovate LEAD School’s pan-India supply chain to drive cost, risk management and excellent customer satisfaction.
• Manage LEAD School Supply Chain P&L for current and future growth.
• Drive consumer and customer location understanding to develop a robust last-mile supply chain.
• Inventory forecasting & management. Define inventory policy, manage distribution to prevent sales loss/delivery delays and minimize write-offs.
• Manage the procurement & distribution of Finished goods (Books, TVs, Tablets, etc.) for schools and other IT Products for internal usage via 3rd party partners and network optimization.
• Collaborate with Expansion and Excellence to get the detailed product specifics needed.
• Lead the SCM team to execute our strategy by maintaining high standards of on-time-every-time and zero-damage delivery.
• Agree on inventory policy and planning parameters.
• Ensure appropriate reporting of key KPIs (On Time in Full & Delivery TATs) are disseminated to the business.
• Alert the business to supply risks and manage mitigation and action plans.
• Implement in line with company processes development plans to ensure that the team has the required skills, performance, behaviors, motivation, and focus to deliver the business plan.
• Support new product launch management and provide supply chain services to enable the on-time launch of new products.
• Vendor and partner negotiations and vendor optimization to maximize cost efficiency at scale.

Should:

• Post graduate qualifications specializing in Operations & Supply Chain from Premier Institutions such as NITIE/Premier B-school with 12+ years of directly relevant work experience.
• Experience across FMCG, Logistics, Supply Chain, and E-commerce preferred.
• Proven working experience in pan-India procurement, warehousing strategy, and logistics management.
• Proven experience in supply chain P&L management.
• Proven experience in sourcing, negotiation, vendor, and project management.
• Excellent leadership and analytical skills.
• Open to Travel as needed.
• Excellent interpersonal skills: outstanding in teamwork, ability to work successfully with teams across the org.
• Strong problem solving, Detail orientation, execution excellence & entrepreneurial spirit.
• Experience in leading a team of people.
• Contributions to the Education industry are desirable.
• Proven ability to meet deadlines in a high-paced work environment.

Nice:

• Information Technology and Automation Knowledge
• A Grasp of Economics and Market Dynamics
• Understanding Cost-to-serve
• The Skill of Flexibility
• Project Management Skills
• The Ability to Get the Best from People

Department: Supply Chain

Location: Mumbai