Lightspeed - Head of IT | Scrabble & Jigsaw
Posted on September 29, 2024
Job Description
<div>looking to hire a head of IT for old portfolio company since 2 yrs in the insurance tech space.<br />
This is a b2b2c 1000 cr setup and is profitable<br />
They are among one of market leaders in their category<br />
Planning to making an acquisition of another company which will make them 3000 cr entity<br />
due to merger, keeping this requirement a bit confidential<br />
US team, Lightspeed growth team is involved in this from US and India<br />
context of building leadership (CEO, CFO and head of IT)</div>
<div>Role -</div>
<div>strong on business application (ERP, SAP, CRM in place), this aspect is most important<br />
data capability (like setting up data analysis, data lakes)<br />
Acquisition and IT integration<br />
Infrastructure <br />
Security</div>
<div><br />
We can look at companies which are in the same space (2k-4k cr setup)<br />
We can look at consumer companies like listed retail companies<br />
We can look at VP IT guys, AVP IT</div>
<div>budget would be around 1 - 1.1 cr on an average, can go upto 1.5 in case of a best fit</div>
<div>Target companies - QSR chain, strong consumer angle, sales through partnerships</div>
<div>process- </div>
<div>Abha, siddharth (growth investor), ex md from Godrej (Vivek), US team<br />
then the founders</div>
<div>PE backed companies - TrueNorth, 3PG companies</div>
<div>Workflow industries, Jubiliant Pharma, </div>
<div>Delhi or Mumbai (Prefer to Delhi)</div>