Principal Program Manager

Job Description

About FlipkartFlipkart is India s largest e-commerce marketplace with a registered customer base of over 150 million. In the 10 years since we started, Flipkart has come to offer over 100 million products across 120+ categories including Smartphones, Books, Media, Consumer Electronics, Furniture, Fashion and Lifestyle.Launched in October 2007, Flipkart is known for its path-breaking services like Cash-onDelivery, No-Cost-EMI and 10-day replacement policy. Flipkart was the pioneer in offering services like In-a-Day Guarantee (65 cities) and Same-Day-Guarantee (13 cities) at scale. With over 1,20,000 registered sellers, Flipkart has redefined the way brands and MSME s do business online. About Flipkart In 2007, we started the Flipkart journey by selling books online. But now, over a decade later, our story is quite different. Today, Flipkart is India s largest online marketplace and one of India s leading technology powerhouse that is disrupting the way India shops online. What has got us here The dynamic, passionate and talented folks we call Flipsters!Our core values define our identity and form the basis of our actions and reflect in everything that we do at Flipkart. Values enable us to shape the desired organizational culture in which each Flipster can thrive and be at their best. We believe in taking bold bets and changing the paradigm, having a sense of urgency to solve problems strategically and putting great ideas into action. We look at the world from our customer s point of view and keep customers at the heart of everything we do. We strive to do the right thing always and be committed to our customers and stakeholders. Position Principal Program Manager - FCC for Brands Location Bangalore About the Team Flipkart Commerce Cloud is a new offering of retail intelligence services and platforms from Flipkart. It is a suite of cloud based products built with the vast experience of Flipkart in the retail industry and the insights gained from large amounts of customer data. It aims to enable retailers to solve their business problems and help them grow their revenues and profitability margins.FCC for Brands is a new business that Flipkart is entering. This team aims to build a D2C commerce enablement business in India and across the world. Ecommerce enablement consists of solutions which help a brand scale up online business and grow their business rapidly. Brandstore SAAS, performance marketing solutions, omnichannel solutions, etc are examples of ecommerce enablement business. What you will do You will be critical to building the FCC for Brands business from grounds up and scale it big. You will be working very closely with the leadership in developing strategies and implementing them to scale up the business. You will be critical in taking the business from 0 to 1. Your job will require you to engage with multiple stakeholders at Flipkart and enable the business. Typical stakeholder interactions would consist of category/business teams, Ekart teams and product/engineering teams.
• Identify avenues of growth build relationship with brands and category teams, work with marketplace teams to devise policies, co-ordinate with Flipkart Boost program, look at new drivers of D2C Indian landscape and enable programs, etc.
• Define, track and improve key metrics.
• Conduct outside-in market and competitive analysis to develop key insights
• Outline strategic choices and develop fact-backed solution themes/ recommendations
• Convert strategies into action and drive the changes required
• Evaluate new business initiatives and opportunities develop a business model and identify ways to service the opportunities
• Partner with external consultants, sellers, brands for deeper grasp of market trends
What you should have Qualifications
• MBA from tier 1 institute with 7+ years experience
• Degree or professional qualification in engineering or quantitative discipline
Key Areas of Experience
• Consulting/Category/Business/Ecommerce roles will be preferred
• Exposure to operational excellence experience with desired knowledge of process development & deployment, strategy formulation and execution
Key Skill Sets
• Ability to take independent decisions & to handle ambiguity
• Excellent analytical & problem solving skills, comfortable with large amount data and drawing insight. Strong technical bent of mind, scalable/sustainable solutions
• Ability to influence other leaders & teams and align them towards the common, shared objectives.
• Strong Analytical and Written Communication Skills
• People leadership and management experience
• Strong Stakeholder management experience
Posted On : About Flipkart In 2007, we started the Flipkart journey by selling books online. But now, over a decade later, our story is quite different. Today, Flipkart is India s largest online marketplace and one of India s leading technology powerhouse that is disrupting the way India shops online. What has got us here The dynamic, passionate and talented folks we call Flipsters!Our core values define our identity and form the basis of our actions and reflect in everything that we do at Flipkart. Values enable us to shape the desired organizational culture in which each Flipster can thrive and be at their best. We believe in taking bold bets and changing the paradigm, having a sense of urgency to solve problems strategically and putting great ideas into action. We look at the world from our customer s point of view and keep customers at the heart of everything we do. We strive to do the right thing always and be committed to our customers and stakeholders. Position Principal Program Manager - FCC for Brands Location Bangalore About the Team Flipkart Commerce Cloud is a new offering of retail intelligence services and platforms from Flipkart. It is a suite of cloud based products built with the vast experience of Flipkart in the retail industry and the insights gained from large amounts of customer data. It aims to enable retailers to solve their business problems and help them grow their revenues and profitability margins.FCC for Brands is a new business that Flipkart is entering. This team aims to build a D2C commerce enablement business in India and across the world. Ecommerce enablement consists of solutions which help a brand scale up online business and grow their business rapidly. Brandstore SAAS, performance marketing solutions, omnichannel solutions, etc are examples of ecommerce enablement business. What you will do You will be critical to building the FCC for Brands business from grounds up and scale it big. You will be working very closely with the leadership in developing strategies and implementing them to scale up the business. You will be critical in taking the business from 0 to 1. Your job will require you to engage with multiple stakeholders at Flipkart and enable the business. Typical stakeholder interactions would consist of category/business teams, Ekart teams and product/engineering teams.
• Identify avenues of growth build relationship with brands and category teams, work with marketplace teams to devise policies, co-ordinate with Flipkart Boost program, look at new drivers of D2C Indian landscape and enable programs, etc.
• Define, track and improve key metrics.
• Conduct outside-in market and competitive analysis to develop key insights
• Outline strategic choices and develop fact-backed solution themes/ recommendations
• Convert strategies into action and drive the changes required
• Evaluate new business initiatives and opportunities develop a business model and identify ways to service the opportunities
• Partner with external consultants, sellers, brands for deeper grasp of market trends
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Keyskills :
project managementcoachingcoredeliverydelivery managementnew businessproblem solvingprogram managementonline marketplaceprocess developmentconsumer electronics