Head - Liquidation & Recommerce - Retail

Head of Liquidation & Recommerce Location: Bengaluru, Kolkata Reports to: Founder About the Client: A leading retail client with 250+ brand partnerships and annual turnover of 6,500+ Crores is looking to hire a senior leader to spearhead its liquidation and recommerce vertical. With 400 Crores of inventory flowing annually into returns, excess, and end-of-life, the mandate is to build an end-to-end recommerce business - grading, repairing, certifying, and reselling directly to consumers. Role Overview: The incumbent will be responsible for transforming liquidation into a scalable recommerce business. This includes establishing robust operations, building buyer networks, driving pricing architecture, and eventually launching refurbishment lines, consumer-facing stores, and online resale channels. Key Responsibilities: - Lead operations: throughput, grading quality, inventory accuracy, dispatch, compliance - Build and manage buyer networks across traders, resellers, B2B platforms, export and auction channels - Own P&L: recovery %, cost to serve, inventory ageing, working capital, ROCE - Ensure regulatory compliance: GST treatment, e-waste/EPR obligations, resale restrictions - Build and lead teams across grading staff, buyers, coordinators, technicians, and store operations Candidate Profile: - 10-18 years experience, with 5-6+ years in liquidation, recommerce, reverse logistics, or distressed inventory - Proven leadership of high-volume physical operations with strict SLAs - Experience building direct buyer channels from scratch - Activatable buyer network in Bengaluru/South India within 60-90 days - P&L ownership including recovery economics and working capital