Product Manager

About Us

In a short span of 2.5 years since inception, Birla Pivot has evolved into a comprehensive B2B e-commerce platform offering integrated procurement and financial solutions that help businesses become efficient and grow. We offer products across 35 categories, 40,000+SKUs from 300+ brands across Building Material, Chemicals & Metals. We launched private labels in 3 categories : Tiles, Ply and Bath ware. With a robust network of suppliers and transporters, we have delivered to 4,000+ pin codes across 375 cities. Our customer base now spans top-tier EPC companies, civil contractors, real estate developers, OEMs, fabricators, manufacturing companies, dealers, and retailers. We connect Sellers, Buyers, Logistics service providers, Lending partners, Payment solution providers on a unified digital backbone thereby creating end to end visibility and providing a B2C like fulfilment experience for the B2B ecosystem. 

The evolution of B2B ecommerce is expected to mirror the B2C ecommerce journey, where technology transformed discovery, pricing, fulfilment, and customer experience at scale. Digital penetration today in B2B ecommerce is still under 2%, indicating massive headroom for scalable digital-first platforms. As the Aditya Birla Group, we are uniquely positioned to transform and shape the way commerce is done across these verticals by leveraging our deep industry expertise and scale. We have built a unique Quote based, Credit linked commerce journey that solves for the needs of B2B commerce with a diverse team that is a mix of deep industry expertise and experience of building complex technology platforms from the ground up. Our goal is to drive this digital adoption and create a distribution platform that can become the most trusted B2B ecommerce platform in the country. 

Job Purpose

This is a tech first digital venture, and we are going to build a business first technology platform to power the business. The transformative nature of venture means that business disruption is going to be created at scale and technology needs to be the engine to drive the same.  Please join our team at the initial stages to create some great business tech, make a business impact and accelerate your learning and growth.

Key Accountabilities & Support Actions

Technology team building  

• Know the team: Understand and leverage/ address the strengths, weaknesses and risks with different teams and individuals
• Own vendor feedback and relationship 
• Technology ways of working:  Influence ,roll out and track adoption of technology ways of working· 

Technology delivery  

• Aligning on major technology deliverables in collaboration with product and tech leads (incl. Vendor teams)
• Own SoW adherence, change request and milestone completion with respect to vendor agreements 
• Status reporting from teams/ vendors and reporting to leadership  
• Own technology delivery risk management and mitigation
• Work with product, business ops and tech teams to ensure coordinated and smooth technology roll outs
• Ability to handle miscellaneous co-ordination activities.
• Focus on status reporting of teams/vendors.

Qualifications

 • Education: Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or other related field, MBA preferred.

 • Ability to connect with people across teams & levels and carry leverage with soft influence. 

• Clarity of thinking and detail orientation 

• Agile, flexible, resourceful mindset along with a structured, planned and detail-oriented approach.

 • Excellent verbal and written communication with interpersonal skills

 • Familiarity with IT terminologies and preferably worked in the IT industry.

 • Worked with Project Management tools like JIRA, MS Project, etc