PPC Analyst

Role Objective

Build and manage a reliable, scalable, and cost-efficient supplier ecosystem for customised and premium furniture, while ensuring consistent quality, lead-time adherence, and strong commercial competitiveness across categories.

Key Responsibilities

• Identify, evaluate, and onboard OEM partners across furniture categories including Sofas, Beds, Dining, Storage, and Accent Furniture.
• Build a diversified and balanced supplier portfolio to reduce concentration risk while maintaining quality and delivery consistency.
• Develop long-term strategic partnerships with key vendors, including exclusivity arrangements where relevant.
• Drive supplier capability development across quality, finishing standards, compliance, and scalability.
• Own end-to-end costing, pricing, and commercial negotiations with vendors.
• Deliver cost optimisation through material optimisation, process improvements, volume leverage, and alternate sourcing.
• Lead annual rate negotiations, cost resets, and contract renewals.
• Work closely with Category, Design, and Product teams to enable New Product Development (NPD).
• Ensure sourcing feasibility for design-led, customised, and make-to-order products.
• Define, implement, and enforce supplier SLAs covering quality standards, lead times, and responsiveness.
• Collaborate with Vendor Managers and QC teams to ensure On-Time In-Full (OTIF) delivery performance.
• Review vendor performance regularly and drive corrective actions and improvement plans.
• Identify and mitigate sourcing risks related to capacity constraints, supplier dependency, and raw material volatility.
• Partner with Finance on contracts, payment terms, and commercial governance.

Success Metrics (KPIs)

• Cost savings and margin improvement (CM1 / Gross Margin)
• Supplier OTIF and lead-time adherence
• Quality acceptance rate and defect reduction
• Reduction in supplier concentration and dependency risk
• New supplier onboarding, capability building, and scalability metrics

Ideal Profile

• 6–10 years of experience in furniture sourcing, manufacturing, or category operations.
• Strong understanding of furniture materials, production processes, and finishing standards.
• Proven expertise in vendor negotiations, cost management, and supplier development.
• Experience in customised or make-to-order manufacturing environments preferred.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with a hands-on execution mindset.

What We Offer

• High-impact role influencing margins, supply reliability, and product quality
• Opportunity to build and scale a strategic supplier ecosystem
• Cross-functional exposure across sourcing, design, manufacturing, and finance

Fynd is India’s largest omnichannel platform and a multi-platform tech company specializing in retail technology and products in AI, ML, big data, image editing, and the learning space. It provides a unified platform for businesses to seamlessly manage online and offline sales, store operations, inventory, and customer engagement. Serving over 2,300 brands, Fynd is at the forefront of retail technology, transforming customer experiences and business processes across various industries.

We are seeking a highly skilled and results-driven Sales Expert to lead the sales efforts for India, focusing on our suite of B2B supply chain SaaS solutions, including Warehouse Management System (WMS), Transportation Management System (TMS), and allied products. The primary focus of this role will be on non-retail sectors such as manufacturing, automotive, FMCG, pharmaceuticals, industrial goods, and 3PL. The ideal candidate will possess in-depth knowledge of supply chain operations and a proven ability to drive sales in enterprise and industrial domains. This role demands a strategic thinker and a strong leader with experience navigating complex sales cycles in diverse industries.

What will you do at Fynd?

Sales Strategy & Execution for Non-Retail Sectors

• Develop and implement a tailored sales strategy targeting non-retail sectors, aligned with business objectives and revenue goals.
• Identify key industries such as manufacturing, automotive, pharmaceuticals, industrial goods, and 3PL, ensuring product-market fit for each segment.
• Establish a clear roadmap to penetrate priority verticals and secure long-term business growth.

Revenue & Business Growth

• Own the P&L responsibility for WMS, TMS, and allied supply chain SaaS solutions in the non-retail sectors.
• Achieve and exceed sales targets by acquiring high-value enterprise clients.
• Build a strong pipeline of prospects in key industrial hubs across India.

Industry-Specific Solution Selling

• Understand and address the unique challenges and requirements of each target sector.
• Work closely with the product team to customize solutions, ensuring relevance and value for specific industries.
• Present compelling value propositions, leveraging case studies, ROI analysis, and technical expertise.

Team Leadership & Development

• Build, train, and lead a specialized sales team focused on non-retail sectors.
• Define clear objectives, KPIs, and performance metrics to drive results.
• Provide mentorship and conduct regular knowledge-sharing sessions to enhance the team’s domain expertise.

Client Relationship Management

• Build and maintain relationships with key stakeholders such as supply chain heads, logistics managers, and IT leaders in target industries.
• Lead strategic sales negotiations, proposal presentations, and deal closures for large-scale enterprise accounts.
• Ensure high customer satisfaction to secure renewals, upselling, and referrals.

Partnerships & Ecosystem Development

• Identify and develop partnerships with implementation firms, resellers, and system integrators specializing in non-retail sectors.
• Collaborate with industry forums, associations, and events to establish the company as a thought leader in supply chain digitization.

Market Intelligence & Reporting

• Monitor market trends, competitor strategies, and technological advancements relevant to non-retail sectors.
• Deliver regular performance updates, insights, and forecasts to senior management.

Some Specific requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Engineering, or a related field; MBA is highly desirable.
• 2-10 years of experience in enterprise SaaS sales, with a proven track record in non-retail sectors such as manufacturing, automotive, industrial goods, or pharmaceuticals.
• Strong understanding of supply chain processes, including warehouse management, transportation, and logistics challenges specific to industrial domains.
• Demonstrated ability to lead high-value, complex sales cycles in enterprise environments.
• Experience building and leading specialized sales teams.
• Familiarity with SaaS sales models, subscription pricing, and consultative selling approaches.

Key Skills:

• Sector-specific sales strategy and execution
• Enterprise account management and C-level engagement
• Team leadership and mentorship
• Market and competitive analysis in non-retail industries
• Customisation of supply chain solutions for industry-specific needs

What do we offer?

Growth

Growth knows no bounds, as we foster an environment that encourages creativity, embraces challenges, and cultivates a culture of continuous expansion. We are looking at new product lines, international markets and brilliant people to grow even further. We teach, groom and nurture our people to become leaders. You get to grow with a company that is growing exponentially.

Flex University

We help you upskill by organising in-house courses on important subjects

Learning Wallet: You can also do an external course to upskill and grow, we reimburse it for you.

Culture

Community and Team building activities

Host weekly, quarterly and annual events/parties.

Wellness

Mediclaim policy for you + parents + spouse + kids

Experienced therapist for better mental health, improve productivity & work-life balance 

We work from the office 5 days a week to promote collaboration and teamwork. Join us to make an impact in an engaging, in-person environment!

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Samagra X - Tech Architect

As Samagra expands into Digital Public Goods (DPGs), we’re looking for a Tech Architect to help us shape how open-source products and platforms can transform governments' worldwide function. As Samagra, we pride ourselves on being thoughtful and intentional about the impact that can be created through well-built products and platforms.

In this role, you’ll work with a mission-driven team on some of the world’s most complex governance problems, where technology will play a pivotal role. You’ll design the architecture of platforms, answering

questions like-

• How to deliver quality advisory services to 100mn farmers nationwide?
• How can standardised assessment/practice tools be enabled to ensure FLN1 in children?
• How to build the capacity of paramedical staff in the country?
• How can govt administrators in any domain monitor the progress of flagship programs?
• How to build an open commerce network to connect farmers to the best service providers?

Working at Samagra, you’ll be challenged and rewarded with impact at scale. We value excellence, collaboration, empathy, and high ownership mindset. The most successful candidates will exhibit work that reflects these values. We want you to enable every team member to do their best work. We expect you to have a solid technical background, excellent communication skills, a flare for open-source products/platforms and a commitment to making everyone feel included.

Your Impact

In this role, you’ll have tremendous opportunities to learn, collaborate and impact millions of citizens in India and abroad by transforming how governments function. As a Tech Architect, you will:

• Take Ownership of technical vision for a given DPG - Define standards, drive technical architecture, strategy, and roadmap with the DPG working groups
• Collaborate with the DPG development partner to translate technical vision into a deliverable roadmap and product design. Pitch in with code, code reviews, architectural reviews and technical mentoring
• Work closely with the DPG development partner at various milestones of the product delivery to ensure a high-quality product is delivered and the product meets all the requirements, including debuggability,
• supportability, availability, scalability, cost-efficiency and performance.
• Continuously develop and improve the interface between technology and the DPG community. Ensure
• that overall technical practices are scalable, constantly evaluating tech stacks to cater to evolving business needs.
• Participate in building ecosystems around DPG with the community - build platforms, plugins & apps.
• Ensure all internal processes & external services comply with security, privacy policies and regulations.
• Stay on top of digital trends, principles and paradigms and be able to relate how these trends will affect the DPG community.
• Engage with internal and external collaborators, and maintain relationships/partnerships with internal team members and adopters to develop strategies, goals and objectives consistent with the DPG
• strategy.

Skills required

• Solid technical skills - Strong experience in having architected, built, operated and scaled distributed, large-scale, fault-tolerant systems; Worked on defining problem statements at all levels - RFCs to good first issues. Experience building and cultivating strong engineering practices; Experience with enterprise software development built and delivered on both on-premise and Cloud is preferred; Ability to diagnose technical problems, debug code, and automate tasks; Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Leadership - Mix of intelligence, initiative, integrity, domain knowledge, verbal agility, and tactful stakeholder engagement, which allows you to rapidly earn the trust of astute teams and individuals across the company/community. You have a strong bias for action and being resourceful
• Collaboration and communication - with the geo-distributed teams in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment. Also, able to communicate across functional teams, keeping various engineering, product and business stakeholders informed.
• Planning & execution - Able to own and deliver large projects end to end, keeping track of timelines; keep track of (and context switch between) different threads and ensure that details don’t slip through the cracks

Qualifications

• B. tech/BE(CS/IT) & from Tier 1 or Tier 2 institutes of India/Abroad or equivalent; M. tech/Ph.D. preferred
• 8+ years of software development experience with 4+ years contributing to software architecture
• Experience in architecting, designing, developing, testing, and deploying large-scale, distributed systems.
• Experience in contributing and actively participating in multiple open source projects.
• Strong leadership skills and experience in working with a developer ecosystem.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills to work effectively with internal teams and external stakeholders.
• Automate the development and test automation processes through CI/CD pipeline (Git, Jenkins, Artifactory, Docker containers).
• Experience in one of the following programming languages: Python/Javascript/Typescript/Java.
• Experience with RDBMS (Postgres, MariaDB) and any other large scale distributed database systems.
• Have expertise in one or more areas like building and scaling web apps, Machine Learning, UI Engineering, Information Visualization, etc.

About Samagra

Samagra is a mission-driven governance consulting firm. We co-work with the bureaucratic leadership across states and the Centre on long-term systemic transformation programmes cutting across domains. Since 2012, when Samagra was founded, we have worked with the Government of India and 7 state governments on 15+ large-scale systemic transformation projects in sectors like education, agriculture, skills, employment, and public service delivery. Over the last 5 years, we have also built strong GovTech and DataGov capabilities, now housed under the SamagraX umbrella. Our mission is to improve the quality of life of citizens through better governance. And this mission is

what fuels every goal we chase. Want to know more about Samagra?

Check out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPcPdI2SHwU&;t=4s&ab_channel=Samagra-TransformingGovernance" target="_blank">this masterclass by our Founder and CEO, Gaurav Goel

Our Tech Leadership

Rahul Kulkarni - Chief Technologist

Nitin Kashyap - Senior Vice President - Product

Utkarsh Vijay - Vice President

Sukhpreet Sekhon - Vice President

Suresh Unnikrishnan - Vice President - Engineering

Product Examples

https://www.samagragovernance.in/blog/2023-03-31-leveraging-artificial-intelligence-to-deliver-advisory-to-farmers/" target="_blank">Ama KrushAI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CEo_R8XIhI" target="_blank">Nipun Lakshya App 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kR8m4VS8kqA" target="_blank">e-SAMWAD

https://www.samagragovernance.in/blog/2023-01-16-leveraging-data-science-algorithms-to-improve-data-quality-in-government/" target="_blank">Krushak Odisha database - DataScience

https://www.samagragovernance.in/blog/2023-01-16-leveraging-data-science-algorithms-to-improve-data-quality-in-government/" target="_blank">Sunbird cQube

https://saral.sunbird.org/" target="_blank">Sunbird SARAL

• Designing and building mobile applications for Apple’s iOS platform.
• Collaborating with the design team to define app features.
• Ensuring quality and performance of the application to specifications.
• Identifying potential problems and resolving application bottlenecks.
• Fixing application bugs before the final release.
• Publishing application on App Store.
• Maintaining the code and atomization of the application.
• Designing and implementing application updates

Details

1. Work hours - 8 hours/day (Monday to Saturday)
2. Duration - 4 months
3. Full-time Internship

Responsibilities

1. Performing research to gather relevant information for the design.
2. Getting a good understanding of the design sensibilities/guidelines and coming up with concepts for the design based on the requirements of the client.
3. Developing creative and attractive illustrations, logos, website designs and other social designs.
4. Using Adobe XD, Photoshop, Illustrator, Affinity Designer (optional), Canva (optional), Sigma (optional) for creating designs.
5. Understanding design guidelines, copywriting rules and typography concepts in order to work with the content given by the content team.
6. Improving designs based on the given feedback.
7. Ensuring projects are completed with high quality and on schedule.

JD as below:

1. Hands on working knowledge of Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator.
2. Should be really agile on Adobe photoshop.
3. Ability to understand advertising and website / app design briefs and visualize the graphic look and feel.
4. Good aesthetic understanding in terms of colors and fonts usage.
5. Should have worked in a digital advertising / website development firm before.
6. A brief understanding of print and OOH creatives is a plus.
7. Knowledge of HTML5 coding also a plus.
8. Should be a patient listener and a team player.
9. Should have the attitude of working on short notices and off timings.