Lead Vendor Manager & QS (COR09067)

Singapore - Business - Ops - Operations - Central - Core Interior SG

Singapore

About Us

Livspace is Asia’s largest and fastest-growing omnichannel home interiors and renovation platform. Using its proprietary technology, Livspace provides a one-stop renovation solution for homeowners—from design to managed last mile fulfillment for all rooms in a home. The platform has organized a fragmented industry, bringing together designers, brands, manufacturers, and contractors to enable an eCommerce-like trusted, and predictable experience.

The company launched operations in Bengaluru, India in 2015. Since its inception, Livspace has organized a fragmented industry, bringing together a curated community of designers, brands, manufacturers and contractors. This has resulted in an e-commerce-like trusted and predictable experience for the homeowners. Livspace boasts of a community of 50000+ satisfied customers and over 2000 interior designers.

The company is already the largest employer of interior designers in the country. Livspace currently serves Singapore, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia as well as 30 metro and non-metro areas in India including - Bengaluru, Chennai, Delhi, Noida, Gurgaon, Mumbai, Thane, Pune, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Ahmedabad, Kochi, Jaipur, Lucknow, Indore, Surat, Coimbatore, Mysore, Mangalore, Vizag, Vijayawada.

Livspace has showcased phenomenal growth since its launch, having delivered over 125,000 rooms and selling over 7.5 million SKUs through its platform. The company also delivered 50,000 homes across all our serviceable locations.

The founders - Anuj Srivastava and Ramakant Sharma are former Google and Myntra executives respectively, who are seasoned entrepreneurs and successful angel investors. Livspace’s leadership team combines world-class talent and entrepreneurial experience gathered at some of the best companies in the world.

Livspace has raised around USD 450 million in capital from some of the top global investors including KKR, Ingka Group Investments (part of largest IKEA retailer Ingka Group), TPG Growth, Goldman Sachs, Kharis Capital, Venturi Partners, FFP (Peugeot Group’s Holding Company), EDBI, Bessemer Venture Partners, Jungle Ventures, Helion Ventures and UC-RNT. For more information, please visit: "https://www.livspace.com/"

Job Description

Livspace is one of Asia’s largest and fastest-growing omni-channel home interior and renovation platforms. Using its proprietary technology, Livspace provides a one-stop renovation solution for homeowners—from design to managed last-mile fulfilment for all rooms in a home. The platform has organized a fragmented industry, bringing together designers, brands, manufacturers, and contractors to enable an eCommerce-like trusted and predictable experience. Livspace currently serves Singapore and Malaysia, as well as 30 metro and non-metro areas in India.

Livspace has showcased phenomenal growth since its launch, having delivered over 100,000 rooms and selling over 7.5 million SKUs through its platform. Livspace has raised USD 180 million in a new round of funding led by KKR, which values the company at USD 1.2 billion. Till date, the company has raised around USD 450 million in capital from some of the top global investors, including KKR, Ingka Group Investments (part of the largest IKEA retailer, Ingka Group), TPG Growth, Goldman Sachs, Kharis Capital, Venturi Partners, FFP (Peugeot Group’s Holding Company), EDBI, Bessemer Venture Partners, Jungle Ventures, Helion Ventures, and UC-RNT.

For more information, please visit: www.livspace.com.

Working at Livspace

Livspace believes in an open, intellectually honest culture where everyone is given the autonomy to contribute and do their life’s best work.

Livspace currently employs over 3000 talented, passionate individuals across India, Singapore and Malaysia who all espouse the brand’s philosophy of good design for all. As a part of this dynamic team, you will have a chance to learn new things, build your managerial competence, be at the helm of an innovative tech startup, and problem-solve on how to enable employees and partners to innovate and deliver differentiated experiences. If you enjoy a good challenge and believe in getting things done, this is the right place for you.

Responsibilities

Build and manage relationships with home improvement contractor partners.
Ensure supply of contractor partners across service categories in their respective coverage area.
Manage contractor partner bandwidth.
Monitor service delivery SLAs.
Improve contractor partner experience through processes and tech workflows.

Job Requirement

Responsibilities and Duties of a Lead Vendor Manager & QS

Work closely with GM-Ops & Business Managers to allocate work to contractors and subcontractors to facilitate the smooth workflow process.
Work closely with the company’s agency services team to ensure quality of key deliverables for documentation of complete project scope
Review quotations and contract documents based on vendor and designer inputs to ensure completeness in project scope and compliance with the company’s master rate card (MRC).
Communicate with the management, contractors and sub-contractors on the adjustments to cost estimates.
Conduct negotiations during the course of projects in order to ensure any issues are resolved.
Monitor and control project scope to meet project objectives in order to enhance project deliverables and key work activities.
Prepare the cost analysis for the projects in order to develop cost reduction strategies to enhance the overall margins from projects.
Monitor project costs and timeline to ensure the requirements of the project are met in accordance with minimal variance.
Oversee and ensure compliance with the company’s quality standards.

Required Experience, Skills and Qualifications

You have been in a similar role for at least 4 years.
Experience in the ID industry in residential projects is highly desirable.
You have a good understanding of material and/or supply costing.
You are meticulous and very well organized.
Ability to multi-task and work within tight deadlines.
You are agile and able to take initiatives and solve problems in an always changing and fast paced environment.