City Head - Hyderabad

Blitz; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 2,000,000 - 3,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Blitz is seeking a highly customer-obsessed and skilled professional to join as a City Head in the Operations team in Hyderabad. You will manage the quick commerce and same-day delivery operations, ensuring convenience and scaling for brands within the city.

Your responsibilities include overseeing logistics networks, managing the city’s P&L, and driving strategic initiatives for operational excellence. Candidates should have over 5 years of experience in a similar capacity, strong data skills, and proven leadership abilities.

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience in heading clusters or a city in similar companies of quick commerce.
• Metric focused with ability to dive deep with data.
• Proven coaching and leadership skills.

Responsibilities

• Develop and manage an expansive quick commerce network.
• Oversee the city’s P&L and implement cost-optimization strategies.
• Formulate and execute strategic expansion initiatives.
• Plan and execute stakeholder management across logistics legs.
• Achieve operational excellence and drive process improvements.

Skills

Leadership skills

Problem solving skills

Data analysis

Job description

Blitz enables brands with 60 mins to Same Day Delivery; powering quick commerce experience on their own platforms. We are seeking a highly customer obsessed, highly energetic & skilled professional to join us as a City Head role in the Operations team. He will be the owner of the entire quick commerce & same-day delivery operations in Bangalore at Blitz making it convenient for brands to scale with Blitz in the entire city on the demand front as well as build operational excellence along with scaling the gigs & fleet on the supply front.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and manage an expansive quick commerce network, encompassing First, Middle, Last Mile logistics and Delivery Centre network to support delivery windows ranging from 60 minutes to same-day.
• Oversee the city’s P&L by implementing cost-optimization strategies and driving financial efficiency.
• Formulate and execute strategic expansion initiatives to ensure comprehensive city-wide coverage.
• Responsible for planning, execution & stakeholder management across all legs of first, middle & last mile for best performance outcomes. Also including plans on high demand days of festivals & national holidays.
• Achieve operational excellence and drive six-sigma process improvements which are scalable.
• Should have a very good problem solving skills & have very high bias to action

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years experience in heading clusters or a city in similar companies of quick commerce.
• Metric Focused and ability to dive deep with data
• Proven coaching and leadership skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong attention to detail
• Ability to organize and manage multiple tasks simultaneously
• Ability to handle changing priorities and use good judgment when working in stressful situations
• Decisive, confident, and experienced with influencing others