Program Manager- Strategic Initiatives Full Time NEW

About the job

We are Licious and we are a Bengaluru based meat and seafood company founded in 2015 by Abhay Hanjura and Vivek Gupta, our founders, foodies and friends. We pride ourselves on being India’s most successful D2C food-tech brand operating in 20 cities across the country delighting over 32 lac customers with our de-licious fresh meat and seafood!

Think you have what it takes to be the magic ingredient in the recipe that is Licious? Read on…

What makes the role meaty?

• Own, drive and manage 30+cost-focused strategic initiatives across upstream supply chain
• Work on founder and leadership priority programs to improve cost, service levels, scalability, and resilience
• Act as the bridge between strategy, analytics, and on-ground supply chain execution
• Own initiatives end-to-end: cost reduction, capacity planning, network optimisation, and productivity improvement
• Translate ambiguous problems into structured workplans with clear milestones and owners
• Drive execution rigor through governance, reviews, and escalation management
• Deep-dive into unit economics, COGS, yield, wastage, productivity, and inventory health
• Build business cases for sourcing, processing, logistics, automation, and capex investments
• Work on manufacturing footprint, PC capacity, warehouse and logistics network design
• Support scale-up and expansion with data-backed capacity and capex planning
• Identify bottlenecks and design solutions for peak demand and scale scenarios
• Partner with Procurement, Production, Quality, Category, Finance, and Tech teams
• Drive process simplification, SOP standardisation, and tech-led transformations (ERP, WMS, demand planning)
• Prepare crisp dashboards and decision notes for senior leadership
• Ensure sustainability and smooth handover of initiatives to business teams

We hope that you have..

• 5–10+ years experience starting with Big 4 / Tier-1 Consulting (Deloitte, PwC, EY, KPMG) followed by hands-on supply chain / operations roles
• Proven exposure to supply chain transformation, cost take-out, or network design
• Experience in D2C, Food, FMCG, Manufacturing, or Consumer businesses preferred
• Strong structured problem-solving with ability to translate strategy into execution
• Deep understanding of end-to-end supply chain and unit economics
• Strong stakeholder management across leadership and plant/ops teams
• High proficiency in Excel / Sheets, presentations, and data dashboards