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Company Overview: Material Depot is building the Ultimate Home Decor Destination—redefining how India shops for interiors - tiles, laminates, wall decor, and more. Our online catalogue enables us to understand design trends in real time and work directly with manufacturers to launch new collections at speed —something the traditional supply chain can't match. By cutting out middlemen, we deliver significantly better prices and consistent, standardized service across every order. Trusted by 10,000+ homes, Material Depot is transforming a ₹100,000 crore industry—making premium interiors faster, smarter, and more accessible than ever before. Some stats about us: We are backed by Accel, Whiteboard, YCombinator, and other global investors, and are a small, well-funded company. We're one of the largest retailers of home interior goods in Bangalore working with over 1000+ top designers and architects. Even as a 2-year-old company, we have been profitable with a scale of $5M annualised revenue Note from Hiring Manager: Hi, I'm Prakhar and I'm looking for driven individuals who are excited by the idea of solving real world challenges in the Ecommerce, Retail and home interiors industry. I'm super excited to find someone to collaborate with me directly on my most important projects largely focussing on warehousing, stock management, inventory forecasting, delivery management, and execute them to fruition; offering a dynamic and engaging work experience. In this role, you'll be involved in 20% Strategic initiatives, 20% Data-based Planning, 60% direct on-ground operations; and will have 100% ownership of the problem statements you tackle - perfect for candidates seeking accelerated growth by contributing to both strategic planning and hands-on execution. Key Responsibilities: Procurement Strategy & Planning: Collaborate with Category, Marketing, and Design teams to forecast demand across product categories while building a resilient and responsive procurement plans to ensure best in class fulfilment rates. Key Partnerships: Co-develop fulfilment strategy with service providers to ensure best in class lead times and quality through tight vendor collaboration and audits while building long-term partnerships with suppliers who can scale with growing customer expectations Logistics & Delivery Excellence: Coordinate effective logistics schedules to ensure flawless last-mile delivery of large-format and delicate items. Warehousing : Strategize, plan, and execute optimal warehouse management all the way from set up to effective inflow and outflow strategies in coordination with financial principles Escalation & SOP Management: Take ownership of on-ground queries and support the resolution of escalations by contributing to structured SOPs and process improvements. You’re a good fit for this only if... Strong problem-solving and execution skills Comfort in managing multiple stakeholders and timelines A proactive mindset with attention to detail Interest & experience in the home/interiors domain is a bonus You don't quantify the hours of effort but the quality, speed and magnitude of output You are not coming here for “strategy” roles but for on-ground hands-on work Why Join Us? This is not a typical operations role. You'll work closely with leadership, influence how products are experienced by thousands of users, and grow faster than in traditional corporate setups. If you're hungry to build, iterate, and take ownership, we’d love to meet you. Show more Show less
