Chief of Staff - Founder's Office - IIM/ISB/XLRI/FMS/SPJIMR

Role & responsibilities:

- To act as the force-multiplier for the Founders office running the operating system that lets the Founder review, decide and drive his domain (marketing, brand, channel & channel sales, sales, experience centres, design) without being consumed by status-chasing.

- The Chief of Staff owns the Founders operating cadence, drives accountability and follow-through across his leadership team, prepares him for every significant decision, and leads strategic initiatives from intent to execution.

- Design and run the Founders review cadence (daily / weekly / monthly) across his functions set agendas, circulate pre-reads, capture decisions, and relentlessly drive action-item closure across VPs, National Heads and HoDs.

- Follow up with leaders on their commitments, surface slippage early, and keep workstreams moving coordinating and escalating.

- Translate the Founders priorities into tracked workstreams with clear owners, milestones and status; maintain the offices dashboards so the Founder has real-time visibility across his domain.

- Produce crisp briefing notes, decision memos and data packs ahead of internal reviews, leadership meetings, channel-partner engagements and external commitments.

- Project-manage cross-functional programmes end-to-end go-to-market and brand campaigns, channel expansion drives, experience-centre rollouts, design-to-sales initiatives holding owners to timelines.

- Pressure-test plans, flag risks upfront, and bring the Founder structured, lettered options for decisions rather than open-ended questions.

- Manage sensitive commercial information and stakeholder relationships with complete discretion.

Preferred candidate profile:

- 8-12 years of total experience, with a clear track record of working closely with founders, promoters or CXOs.

- Background in top-tier management consulting (strategy), OR a prior Chief of Staff / strategy / business-head / general-management role. Exposure to consumer / retail, building materials, interiors, durables or B2B2C distribution businesses is highly relevant given the domain.

- MBA from a premier institute (IIM / ISB / XLRI / FMS / SPJIMR or equivalent) preferred; an exceptional track record.

- Demonstrated experience running operating cadences, programme management, and senior-stakeholder coordination.

- Should be willing to work out of Coimbatore location.

- Should be willing to undertake travel as per business needs.

- Should have excellent communication skills with a flair for diplomacy.

- Should have very good team management skills.