Lead - Solution Design

Role Objective

To lead end-to-end solution design for transportation, warehousing, and integrated logistics engagements. Ensuring cost-competitive, scalable, and execution-ready solutions that improve win rates, margins, and customer confidence

Key Responsibilities

Warehousing Solutioning

• Design RDCs, FCs, spoke warehouses, line-feed and supermarket models
• Develop space, manpower, MHE, productivity, and layout models
• Drive optimization across SKU profiling, throughput, slotting, and shift planning

Integrated Logistics Solutions

• Architect end-to-end warehousing + transportation solutions with single commercial ownership
• Design integrated visibility and control-tower-led operating models
• Ensure smooth handover from solutioning to operations, minimizing go-live risk

Transportation Solutioning

• Design primary, secondary, in-city, milk-run, and line-haul networks
• Develop vehicle mix, routing, frequency, km/trip-based cost models
• Identify savings through route optimization, consolidation, utilization improvement, and carrier rationalization
• Lead transport desk / 4PL solutioning, including governance and SLA frameworks

Costing, Commercials & Risk

• Own bottom-up costing, pricing, and margin protection
• Partner with Finance to ensure commercial viability and risk mitigation
• Define year-1 savings roadmap and steady-state cost levers

Technology Enablement

• Embed WMS, TMS, track-and-trace, and analytics into solutions
• Ensure tech-led productivity, visibility, and compliance

Stakeholder & Team Leadership

• Act as solution SPOC for large RFQs and strategic customers
• Work closely with Sales, Operations, IT, Finance, and Legal
• Mentor solution design team and standardize templates, assumptions, and playbooks

Success Metrics

• RFQ win rate improvement
• Cost competitiveness vs benchmarks
• Margin adherence post go-live
• Accuracy of assumptions vs actuals
• Speed and quality of solution turnaround

Experience:

• 15+ years in logistics / supply chain solutioning
• Strong hands-on exposure to transport network design and warehousing solutions

Education:

• MBA / PGDM (Operations / Supply Chain preferred)
• Engineering background preferred

Core Skills:

• Transportation & warehousing cost engineering
• Integrated solution architecture
• Strong commercial and financial acumen
• Stakeholder Management