Store Expansion Associate

AgroStar; Dhule; On-site; INR 400,000 - 650,000; Full time

Job summary

AgroStar is seeking a store expansion professional in India to build and scale the retail footprint. You will manage end-to-end expansion, identify markets, coordinate with internal teams and partners, and oversee launch costs and timelines to ensure a smooth rollout.

The role targets freshers or candidates with 1–2 years in sales, business development, retail, or field operations, requiring strong communication and stakeholder management.

Qualifications

• Freshers or candidates with 1–2 years of experience in sales, business development, retail, field operations, or a similar role.
• Good communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Comfortable with extensive travel and on-ground market visits.
• Passionate intrapreneurial mindset with a desire to work at the grassroots level, drive impact in India’s agricultural sector, and help farmers win.

Responsibilities

• End-to-end store expansion: identify new markets and locations, evaluate potential, build the location pipeline, coordinate with internal teams and external partners, manage launch costs and timelines, ensure smooth store setup and launch, support initial post-launch phase, and track expansion progress and risks.
• Conduct market and location feasibility assessments, evaluating farmer potential, competition, accessibility, rentals, and overall business viability.
• Build and manage a pipeline of potential locations, working with internal stakeholders to evaluate, shortlist, and finalize sites.
• Own store launch execution, coordinating with Operations, Procurement, Finance, People Practices, Branding, Projects, and other teams to ensure timely readiness.
• Manage landlords, vendors, contractors, and local stakeholders, ensuring smooth execution of commercial and operational requirements.
• Prepare and track business cases, expansion costs, timelines, and budgets, ensuring launches are delivered within approved parameters.
• Partner with the Store Operations team during the initial post‑launch phase, resolving operational gaps and ensuring stores are set up for successful performance.
• Maintain expansion dashboards and regular reporting, proactively highlighting progress, risks, delays, and key decisions required to leadership.

Skills

Store expansion

Market assessment

Stakeholder management

Travel readiness

Job description

ROLE

• – Manage end-to-end store expansion, including identifying new markets and locations, evaluating potential, building the location pipeline, coordinating with internal teams and external partners, managing launch costs and timelines, ensuring smooth store setup and launch, supporting the initial post‑launch phase, and tracking expansion progress and risks.
• – Conduct market and location feasibility assessments, evaluating farmer potential, competition, accessibility, rentals, and overall business viability.
• – Build and manage a pipeline of potential locations, working with internal stakeholders to evaluate, shortlist, and finalize sites.
• – Own store launch execution, coordinating with Operations, Procurement, Finance, People Practices, Branding, Projects, and other teams to ensure timely readiness.
• – Manage landlords, vendors, contractors, and local stakeholders, ensuring smooth execution of commercial and operational requirements.
• – Prepare and track business cases, expansion costs, timelines, and budgets, ensuring launches are delivered within approved parameters.
• – Partner with the Store Operations team during the initial post‑launch phase, resolving operational gaps and ensuring stores are set up for successful performance.
• – Maintain expansion dashboards and regular reporting, proactively highlighting progress, risks, delays, and key decisions required to leadership.

REQUIREMENTS

• – Freshers or candidates with 1–2 years of experience in sales, business development, retail, field operations, or a similar role.
• – Good communication and stakeholder management skills.
• – Comfortable with extensive travel and on‑ground market visits.
• – Passionate intrapreneurial mindset with a desire to work at the grassroots level, drive impact in India’s agricultural sector, and help farmers win.