About the company:

Locofast Online Services Private Limited operates under the brand name - Locofast- & today is one of the fastest growing B2B companies in the textiles B2B space. The company connects textile manufacturers (mills, manufacturers) to customers (brands, buying houses) both in India & internationally. It integrates technology to the core transaction flow & delivers industry best pricing & turnaround time for textile products. The century old textile industry has been untouched by any disruption leave alone technological disruption. At Locofast, we are driven to do exactly that & today have an opportunity to create a very large impact in an extremely large industry.

Founders & Investors :

The company in a short span of time (little over two years) has raised two rounds of funding, most recently one large round of Series B financing (to be announced soon). The company is backed by some of the most marquee investors that have backed landmark companies such as Myntra.com, Firstcry.com, Lenskart.com, Cult.fit, Bounce, Gomechanic & others. The company is founded by second time entrepreneurs who have demonstrated the ability to build and scale businesses in the past. The profile of the founder can be seen here www.linkedin.com/in/wadhwadeepak. Deepak was previously the founder of WeAreHolidays, a B2C platform for travelers. The founders come with deep expertise in building & scaling marketplaces.

Current team :

Locofast currently has more than 100+ employees across its four offices in India & abroad. The team scale up planned over the next 6 months is to the tune of 250+ people across these offices & few more that the company intends to set up in the near future. The company is biased towards hiring young dynamic individuals who want to change the status-quo & are hungry for exponential growth in a short span of time. The company has already onboarded high quality talent from some of the best startups (Whitehat Jr, Cars24 etc), folks from large companies (Hero Honda, PWC etc) as well as folks from premier colleges (IIM- s, BITS, IIT's etc). At the core, the company looks at individuals who can take ownership, manage a team, execute fast & deliver superior outcomes, irrespective of age & experience.

Roles & responsibilities :

- Ensure operating activities are streamlined by working with partners to ensure on-time performance. Responsible for P&L driven decisions for the region.

- Contacting potential clients to establish rapport and arrange meetings.

- Planning and overseeing new marketing initiatives.

- Researching organizations and individuals to find new opportunities.

- Finding and developing new markets and improving sales.

- Responsible for the sales effort, acquiring new clients, retaining existing clients and achieving revenue plans from existing and new clients in specific vertical/regions.

- Building the buyer and seller network in the region by identifying key players in the market.

- On-boarding of new vendors on the platform & show them initial success for them to be interested in aligning & working closely with the company.

- Taking complete ownership of the vendor's experience with the company & handling issues such as compliance, payments & other operational issues of the vendors.

- The candidate should be someone who takes complete ownership of the delivery of services emanating out of the vendor ecosystem.

- Overseeing the annual renewals process, ensuring on-target retention of existing vendors.

- Assist in the coordination and implementation of marketing strategies, and delegate tasks that achieve strategic goals.

- Staying informed about competing products and services..

- Closing sales and achieving sales targets.

Candidate requirements :

- Have an experience of 2-4 years

- Candidate have worked with unorganized/SME vendors & have experience in dealing with them.

- Exceptional business and analytical skills and ability to run-entire business cycle independently.

- Experience in team handling and B2B ecom industry would be preferred.

- Deep thinker - Should be able to identify problems and break it down to come up with a solution.

- Excellent level of written and spoken English.

- Focused and possess sales mindset.

We offer :

- Competitive salary

- Great working environment, opportunity to work directly with the founders on very exciting real-life problems.

- Opportunity to grow really fast.

- ESOPs

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