Store Expansion Associate

AgroStar; Jalna; On-site; INR 400,000 - 700,000; Full time

Job summary

AgroStar is seeking a Store Expansion Lead to drive end-to-end expansion across new markets in India. The role involves identifying locations, building pipelines, coordinating with internal teams, and ensuring timely launch readiness.

Willingness to travel extensively and work at the grassroots level is essential to drive impact in India’s agricultural sector. Ideal candidates have 1–2 years in sales, BD, retail, or field operations, with strong communication and stakeholder management skills.

Qualifications

• Freshers or candidates with 1–2 years in sales, BD, retail, field operations, or similar roles.
• Good communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Comfortable with extensive travel and on-ground market visits.
• Passionate intrapreneurial mindset with a drive to impact India’s agriculture sector.

Responsibilities

• Identify new markets and locations for store expansion.
• Evaluate potential, build location pipelines, and manage launch costs and timelines.
• Coordinate with internal teams and external partners for smooth store setup.
• Own store launch execution with cross-functional collaboration.
• Manage landlords, vendors, contractors, and local stakeholders for compliant operations.
• Prepare business cases, expansion costs, timelines, and budgets.
• Support post-launch phase with the Operations team to ensure performance.
• Maintain expansion dashboards and report progress, risks, and decisions to leadership.

Skills

Sales

Business Development

Retail

Field Operations

Communication

Stakeholder Management

Market Visits

Entrepreneurial Mindset

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 and drive impact in India’s agricultural sector.