MUMBAI: Amazon govt Samir Kumar could step in because the India head of the e-commerce agency, changing Manish Tiwary who has resigned, sources conscious of the discussions instructed TOI. After spending greater than eight years at Amazon, Tiwary has give up because the India nation supervisor to pursue an exterior alternative and can go away after October. “Samir takes care of rising markets and has deep India expertise,” sources mentioned.
Kumar, an Amazon veteran has spent over twenty years on the agency and is presently primarily based within the firm’s headquarters in Seattle. Kumar who joined Amazon as a methods engineer in 1999 is presently vice-president, worldwide client chargeable for rising exports, increasing world retailer and dealing on subsequent set of nations for client enterprise. Senior Amazon executives Saurabh Srivastava and Vivek Somareddy had been additionally understood to have been within the fray for the position. The concept all the time was to faucet into Amazon’s inner expertise pool for the highest India job, sources mentioned. “We don’t touch upon speculations,” an Amazon India spokesperson mentioned in response to queries.
Kumar will take over the India enterprise at a time when competitors available in the market is deepening with gamers like Meesho and Walmart’s Flipkart betting larger on the house.
In addition to, a clutch of fast commerce companies are quick venturing into the territory of e-commerce gamers, consuming into their market share and nudging gamers like Flipkart to launch their very own fast supply companies.
Kumar, an Amazon veteran has spent over twenty years on the agency and is presently primarily based within the firm’s headquarters in Seattle. Kumar who joined Amazon as a methods engineer in 1999 is presently vice-president, worldwide client chargeable for rising exports, increasing world retailer and dealing on subsequent set of nations for client enterprise. Senior Amazon executives Saurabh Srivastava and Vivek Somareddy had been additionally understood to have been within the fray for the position. The concept all the time was to faucet into Amazon’s inner expertise pool for the highest India job, sources mentioned. “We don’t touch upon speculations,” an Amazon India spokesperson mentioned in response to queries.
Kumar will take over the India enterprise at a time when competitors available in the market is deepening with gamers like Meesho and Walmart’s Flipkart betting larger on the house.
In addition to, a clutch of fast commerce companies are quick venturing into the territory of e-commerce gamers, consuming into their market share and nudging gamers like Flipkart to launch their very own fast supply companies.
