Management Trainee
ember cookware · Bengaluru · onsite · Posted 31d ago
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About this role
Role: Management Trainee - Founder's Office
Location: Bengaluru (Onsite)
Duration: 6 months
Reporting to: Founder(s)
Conversion: Opportunity to convert to a full-time role based on performance
About Ember
Ember is a D2C cookware brand building India's non-toxic, ceramic-coated cookware category - PTFE, PFOA, lead, and cadmium-free - combining Italian coating craftsmanship with everyday Indian cooking needs. The brand has already earned the trust of 30,000+ Indian kitchens and is scaling fast across its own website and online marketplaces.
About the Role
We're looking for a sharp, hands-on Management Trainee to work directly with the Founder's Office. This isn't a shadowing role - you'll be embedded in live business problems from week one, working across new product development, go-to-market, marketplaces, and supply chain/operations.
It's built for someone who wants high-intensity, high-visibility generalist exposure at an early-stage D2C brand, with a clear opportunity to move into a permanent role based on performance and mutual fit.
What you'll do
- New Product Development: Support ideation, market research, and category benchmarking; coordinate with design and vendor partners to move concepts from brief to sample to shelf-ready.
- Go-to-Market: Support launch strategies for new products and categories — positioning, pricing inputs, channel sequencing, and launch calendars.
- Marketplaces: Manage and optimize listings across Amazon, Flipkart, Myntra, etc.; track catalog health, pricing, promotions, ad spends, and performance.
- Operations & Supply Chain: Work with vendors and logistics partners to track production, inventory, and fulfilment; identify and help resolve bottlenecks.
- Planning: Build and maintain trackers, dashboards, and reports that give founders visibility into performance across functions.
- Founder Support: Take ownership of ad-hoc, cross-functional projects from zero to one, acting as an extension of the founder's bandwidth.
What we're looking for
- Recent MBA graduate with 0-1 years of full-time work experience post-MBA or equivalent.
- Strong working knowledge of and genuine interest in NPD, GTM, marketplaces, operations, supply chain, and planning.
- You don't need to be an expert in all of them, but should be comfortable learning quickly and going deep.
- High ownership mentality and comfort with ambiguity, tight timelines, and shifting priorities.
- Strong analytical and Excel/Google Sheets skills; comfortable building trackers and working with data.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to interact directly with founders, vendors, and marketplace partners.
- Bias for action - someone who would rather try, learn, and iterate than wait for the perfect plan.
Why join
- Direct access to the founders and real decision-making - not a rotational or observer program.
- Broad, cross-functional exposure across the core levers of a growing D2C brand.
- Live business problems and ownership from day one.
- A clear, merit-based opportunity to transition into a permanent role after 6 months.
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