Manager – Founder’s Office

Location - Lucknow ## Job Summary The Manager in the Founder’s Office will work directly with the Founders and senior leadership to drive high-priority strategic initiatives, operational projects, and new business ventures. This role is critical in translating broad strategic questions into actionable plans, supporting rapid decision-making, and executing cross-functional projects that contribute to the company's growth and organizational development. The position offers broad exposure to various aspects of a rapidly scaling ingredients technology company, with a focus on building processes, analyzing markets, and supporting organizational and strategic growth. ## Responsibilities - **Drive Strategic Projects:** Collaborate with the Founders on high-priority initiatives such as new category entry, market expansion, pricing strategy, business model development, manufacturing investments, partnerships, and international expansion. Translate broad strategic questions into structured analyses, clear recommendations, and executable plans. - **Develop Business & Market Intelligence:** Conduct in-depth analysis of market size, growth, customer segments, competitive landscape, ingredient technologies, global manufacturers, pricing structures, industry economics, and emerging trends. Build decision-quality research rather than surface-level summaries. - **Support New Business Initiatives:** Assist in taking new ideas from concept to commercial execution through opportunity identification, business case development, customer discovery, supplier identification, financial modeling, product positioning, go-to-market planning, and initial execution. - **Lead Cross-Functional Execution:** Coordinate projects across functions such as Sales, Marketing, R&D, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Finance, and HR. Establish objectives, owners, timelines, operating metrics, and review mechanisms to ensure successful outcomes. - **Assist in Business Planning & Performance Reviews:** Support annual and quarterly planning by analyzing revenue, margins, customer growth, product performance, working capital, capacity, headcount, Capex, and strategic initiatives. Drive follow-through on key issues affecting business performance. - **Conduct Financial & Commercial Analysis:** Build rigorous analyses including unit economics, contribution margins, pricing, Capex returns, ROI/IRR models, scenario modeling, and customer/product profitability to support decision-making. - **Organizational Building:** Collaborate on organization design, leadership hiring, performance management, role definition, operating cadences, management dashboards, and decision-making processes to support scalable growth. - **Support Investor & Board Activities:** Prepare high-quality materials for investor updates, board meetings, fundraising, financial and operational analyses, strategic presentations, and industry benchmarking. - **Handle Special Situations:** Take ownership of urgent or high-impact issues requiring rapid diagnosis and execution, often involving unstructured problems without existing playbooks. ## Qualifications - 5–7 years of experience in high-caliber environments such as PE/VC, investment banking, top-tier consulting (MBB), high-growth/reputed corporates, or startups with strong execution exposure. - Tier-1 MBA preferred. - Exceptional problem-solving and analytical skills. - Strong ownership mindset with a “get shit done” attitude. - Ability to operate effectively in high-ambiguity, fast-paced, founder-led environments. - Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills. - Proficiency with data analysis, dashboards, MIS, and performance metrics. - Demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities independently. - Strong financial and commercial understanding, with experience in building business models and conducting financial analysis. ## Experience - 5 to 7 years of relevant experience in consulting, investment banking, venture capital, private equity, high-growth startups, or reputed corporate environments. - Proven track record of leading projects from problem definition through execution. - Experience working directly with senior leadership and managing cross-functional teams. ##