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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

JD:

 Location Pan India

Experience: 8 to 15Yrs

Must have skills                                                                                                                 

• "Senior" is defined as 8+ years of IT experience, and a minimum of 5+ years in Digital experience
• Minimum 3 years of hands-on experience with Informatica Cloud Data Quality (CDQ) toolset, 
• Strong SQL Skills.

Nice have skills

• Knowledge of Informatica AXON Data Governance
• Familiarity of Enterprise Data Catalog 
• Familiarity Cloud Data Governance and Catalog (CDGC).

Responsibilities Include:

• Translation of the UI/UX design wireframes to actual code that will produce visual elements of custom analytics products and wide web applications
• Will work with the R&D and Analytics team to bridge the gap between graphical design and technical implementation
• Take an active role on both sides and defining how the application looks as well as how it works

Ideal Candidate

• Experience with JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, and CSS
• Experience developing new user-facing features
• Strong working knowledge of front-end frameworks (Angular 2+ versions)
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• Experience building reusable code and libraries for future use
• Ensuring the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs
• Optimize application for maximum speed and scalability
• Assure that all user input is validated before submitting to back-end
• Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders

Desired Skills:

• Experience leveraging data analysis to construct strategic narrative
• Excellent problem-solving/analytical skills and ability to break down large complex concepts
• Knowledgeable in web standards and responsive design
• Strong UI/UX and design experience with the ability to simplify complex scenarios to the average user without losing functionality
• Knowledgeable in web standards and responsive design
• Familiarity with Agile project management principles
• Confidence to drive assignments to completion

• 8+ Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent combination of technical education and work experience;
• 7+ years of Software Development experience and at least 1+ years of experience in building and leading strong engineering teams
• Deep hands-on technical expertise on server side technologies.
• Solid software development background including design patterns, data structures, test driven development, experience in building microservices and highly scalable and performant applications.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, and effective stakeholder management, in cross functional teams.
• Managed a team of 5+ engineers, taking care of the delivery planning, resource alignments, prioritization, performance management(including managing appraisal cycles), and effective feedback for the team and individuals.
  
  

About the company:

Tathastu, the next-generation innovation labs is Future Group’s initiative to provide a new-age retail experience - combining the physical with digital and enhancing it with data. We are creating next-generation consumer interactions by combining AI/ML, Data Science, and emerging technologies with consumer platforms.

The E-Commerce vertical under Tathastu has developed online consumer platforms for Future Group’s portfolio of retail brands -Easy day, Big Bazaar, Central, Brand factory, aLL, Clarks, Coverstory. Backed by our network of offline stores we have built a new retail platform that merges our Online & Offline retail streams. We use data to power all our decisions across our products and build internal tools to help us scale our impact with a small closely-knit team.

Our widespread store network, robust logistics, and technology capabilities have made it possible to launch a ‘2-Hour Delivery Promise’ on every product across fashion, food, FMCG, and home products for orders placed online through the Big Bazaar mobile app and portal. This makes Big Bazaar the first retailer in the country to offer instant home delivery on almost every consumer product ordered online.

Job Responsibilities:

• You’ll streamline and automate the software development and infrastructure management processes and play a crucial role in executing high-impact initiatives and continuously improving processes to increase the effectiveness of our platforms.
• You’ll translate complex use cases into discrete technical solutions in platform architecture, design and coding, functionality, usability, and optimization.
• You will drive automation in repetitive tasks, configuration management, and deliver comprehensive automated tests to debug/troubleshoot Cloud AWS-based systems and BigData applications.
• You’ll continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize the development and operational efficiency of the platforms.
• You’ll determine the metrics that will define technical and operational success and constantly track such metrics to fine-tune the technology stack of the organization.

Experience: 4 to 8 Yrs

Qualification: B.Tech / MCA

Required Skills:

• Experience with Linux/UNIX systems administration and Amazon Web Services (AWS).
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), Kubernetes and container orchestration, Web servers (Nginx, Apache), Application Servers(Tomcat,Node.js,..), document stores and relational databases (AWS RDS-MySQL).
• Site Reliability Engineering patterns and visibility /performance/availability monitoring (Cloudwatch, Prometheus)
• Background in and happy to work hands-on with technical troubleshooting and performance tuning.
• Supportive and collaborative personality - ability to influence and drive progress with your peers

Our Technology Stack:

• Docker/Kubernetes
• Cloud (AWS)
• Python/GoLang Programming
• Microservices
• Automation Tools