Ecommerce marketplace Snapdeal plans to double its workforce to over 10,000 employees in the current financial year to back its growth plans.
“As we are expanding, we need to invest in manpower. We are a team of little over 5,000 presently; we are looking at doubling our headcount by the end of this fiscal (2015-16),” Snapdeal vice president (HR) Saurabh Nigam told The Hindu .
Last year, the firm had hired nearly 3,700 people.
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The hiring, Mr. Nigam said, would be done across verticals, including technology, sales and supply chain.
“We recently set up new development centre in Bangalore, so a good number of hiring will be done for this. We have already made offers to over 400 engineering graduates,” he added.
Besides, with the company in process of setting up regional centres across the country to reach out to sellers, another chunk of hiring will be done in seller business development and account management.
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Together, technology, seller business development and account management will account for nearly 40 per cent of the hiring being done.
“About 15-20 per cent hiring will be done is supply chain and operations as we expand. Similar hiring would be done for our category teams that handle different products categories on our site,” he added.
The company has made about another 250 offers to students from tier-1 B-schools and rest all would be lateral hiring.
Snapdeal recently announced it will invest $150-200 million or about Rs. 940 – Rs.1,250 crore in the next one year on expanding its delivery operations. The firm also picked up a minority stake in logistics firm GoJavas, which is the former logistics arm of smaller rival Jabong.