Aditya Birla Fashion and Retail Ltd. Hiring for Regional Project Manager, East at West Bengal, India Full Time

To deliver the projects in alignment with Brand Business Strategy and trade team by managing cross-functional teams to fulfill the ultimate objective of delivering the projects on time and bdget including repair & maintenance of retail stores across all brands in Uttar Pradesh and Uttrakhand.

Job Context & Major Challenges

Key Challenges

Geographical conditions pose a challenge when stores have to be opened in remote locations.

Travelling time forms a greater composition of total working hours.

Executing the stores with franchises vendors, which are new for every project without compromising the look and feel of the stores and identities. We have to educate all the different vendors for every project Dealing with Land Lords ,Franchisees and business partners to get their maximum support to make projects success

• Dealing with Local authorities to overcome local regulations
• Forecasting the risks pertaining to Socio-cultural issues like festivals ,strikes ,local labour holidays etc –and planning the project execution accordingly
• Educating and training the vendors to meet the expected execution timelines, budgetary constraints, and quality standards.
• Statutory approvals
• Procurement in volatile market conditions

Varying Geographical locations

Key Result Areas

KRA (Accountabilities) (Max 1325 Characters)Supporting Actions (Max 1325 Characters)

KRA1 Store opening and renovation timeline WCD to HOTVM for COCO and COFO with only registered vendors

• Preparing work schedule and regular site visits and multiple and regular communication/ coordination with different stake holders like- VM, Design team, Landlord, Franchise, RBD team, multiple vendors, Ops team.
• Organizing project steering meetings and sharing the project reports. Completing all the documentations like site visit reports, checklists, hand over documents.
• Inviting estimates from vendors, vetting them and sending it to commercial team for PO creations. Target taken for projects completion is 39 days.

KRA2 Vendor Development

• Developing vendors as per the forecasted plan and immediate requirements.
• 2 new vendors as required in the Area.

KRA3 Quality Ensure standardized quality of work across stores.

KRA4 Repair & Maintenance Ensure that repair and Maintenance is carried out effectively and in timely manner.

KRA5 Timelines Schedule the completion of work for a particular project.

KRA6 Addressing – Snaglist Clearing all the snags within the given timelines.