About Yulu
Yulu is India’s largest shared electric mobility-as-a-service company. Yulu’s mission is to reduce traffic congestion and air pollution by running smart, shared, and small-sized electric vehicles. Yulu is led by a mission-driven & seasoned founding team and has won several prestigious awards for its impact and innovation. Yulu is currently enabling daily commuters for short-distance movements and helping gig-workers to deliver goods for the last mile with its eco-friendly rides at pocket-friendly prices, and reducing the carbon footprint.
Yulu is excited to welcome people with high integrity, commitment, the ability to collaborate and take ownership, high curiosity, and an appetite for taking intelligent risks. If our mission brings a spark into your eyes and if you’d like to join a passionate team that’s committed to transforming how people commute, work, and explore their cities, come join the #Unstoppable Yulu tribe!
Stay updated on the latest news from Yulu at https://www.yulu.bike/newsroom and on our website, https://www.yulu.bike/.
Role Summary
The Manager – Material Flow & Recovery will be responsible for end-to-end ownership of material movement, recovery, and circular utilization within the ReCircle ecosystem. This role ensures maximum asset recovery, optimal inventory flow, and minimal waste, while enabling efficient material supply back to the business.
Key Responsibilities
1. Material Flow Management
- Ensure accurate inventory tracking and reconciliation across locations
- Optimize inventory operations, storage, and dispatch efficiency
- Drive TAT reduction in material movement
2. Recovery & Refurbishment Enablement
- Maximize the recovery rate of defective/returned assets
- Work closely with refurbishment teams and vendors to ensure high repair throughput
- Monitor repair cycle times and bottlenecks
- Enable reuse of components and parts wherever feasible
3. Vendor & Partner Management
- Manage warranty claims with OEMs through the Procurement Team.
- Manage repair vendors and recycling vendors
- Track vendor performance (TAT, quality, recovery rates)
- Drive cost optimization in repair and recovery operations
- Ensure compliance and documentation for scrap disposal
4. Inventory Ownership & Control
- Act as custodian of all materials under ReCircle
- Ensure zero shrinkage and high inventory accuracy
- Implement inventory control mechanisms and audits
- Maintain clear visibility of usable vs non-usable inventory
5. Process Design & Optimization
- Design and standardize SOPs for material handling and recovery processes
- Identify and eliminate process inefficiencies and leakages
- Collaborate with tech/analytics teams for system improvements and automation
6. Cross-functional Coordination
- Work with Supply Planning for demand-supply alignment
- Coordinate with the Inventory team for material returns and redeployment
- Coordinate with the Procurement team for warranty claims and vendor management
- Work with Finance, business, and procurement teams to execute the scrap/recycling
- Work with the Inventory team for all material requirements within ReCircle
7. Reporting & Metrics
- Recovery rate (%)
- Repair TAT
- Inventory accuracy (%)
- Cost per recovery
- Scrap vs reuse ratio
- Material turnaround time
Key Outcomes
- High asset recovery rate
- Reduced turnaround time
- Strong inventory control
- Optimized repair and recovery costs
- Scalable material flow processes
Skills & Qualifications
Experience
- 3 to 5 years in supply chain, warehouse operations, reverse logistics, or refurbishment operations
- Experience in vendor management and operations execution
- Exposure to circular economy/repair / after-sales / EV ecosystem preferred
Core Skills
- Strong operations and process mindset
- Analytical and problem-solving skills
- Stakeholder management
- Data-driven decision making
- Ownership and execution capability
We assure you
- A friendly culture where you are encouraged to share ideas and opinions.
- A journey that will challenge and reward you in multiple ways.
- To work with a team of young enthusiasts who are always upbeat and self-driven to achieve bigger milestones in shorter time spans.
- We believe that we grow as you grow. Once you are a part of our team, your growth also becomes essential to us, and in order to make sure that happens, there are timely formal and informal feedback sessions.