GROWING THE SMART ENERGY NETWORKS OF TOMORROW
Keep an Eye Social Design Award 2011
Triodos foundation 2013
Winner Business Plan competition, 2013
Winner NL, 2013 Best 4 of India, 2014
Rotterdam Design price, 2013
Winner ABN AMRO Social Impact Pitch
Runner-up Erasmus Energy Business
Award
2015 Postcode Lottery Green Challenge
Nomineewww.ruralspark.com
TATA Solar Panel
Glass solar plate
80W
nominal output 17V
model
power
400,-₹
• lifetime guarantee• discounted product offers• great and easy maintenance plans• follow up and training• Rural Spark entrepreneur pass
per month only*
model
Rural Spark Energy Router
SD-003
input 11V ~ 25Vmax 4A
output 20 x USB 5V, 2Amax total load 10A
Rural Spark Local Energy Supplier advantages
usb power ports
including 2 free phone charge cables
RURAL SPARK SETS OUT TO PROVIDE ACCESS TO ENERGY
FOR EVERYONE,BECAUSE WE ARE CONVINCED THE SOLUTIONS ARE HERE ALREADY TODAY,
WE JUST HAVE TO MAKE IT HAPPEN.
With over 400 million people without access to electricity, rural India provides a unique
opportunity to leapfrog existing top-down centralised energy solutions, and build the right
grid from scratch, together with rural India.
Rural Spark, founded in 2013, is providing high quality energy solutions for rural India. Since
it founding, over 100 Local Energy Suppliers have provided energy for over 5.000 people.
However, the big market entry is yet to happen with the newly produced solution: the Rural
Spark Energy Kit allows customers (Local Energy Suppliers) to generate electricity for their
own usage as well as to sell to their fellow villagers, becoming resilient entrepreneurs. This
tested solution is the first step in a smartly connected energy network.
1 Rural Spark routerincl prepaid module
RURAL SPARK ENERGY KIT
12 Rural Spark lamps
Rural SparkService Platform
40 Wp solar panelincl. 15m wire & DC connector2 Wired LED bulbs
2W, 3 dim levels, 2.1m wire
1 Rural Spark CubeModular, flexible storage, 6.400 mAh
energy kits kit price
energy kits monthly instalment
energy
Rural Spark Service Platform
The chain
Rural Spark designs solutions based
on a strong vision and direct insights
from the rural Indian areas.
Manufacturing and logistics are
outsourced though very carefully and
deeply overseen by Rural Spark.
For reaching the Rural Areas, Rural
Spark partners with rural distribution
partners and MFI’s to provide last
mile rural distribution and financial
products.
Rural Spark offers service (supported
by the Rural Spark service platform)
to ensure continuation and a reliable
network-solution.
vision
insights
product designmanufacturing
logistics
rural distribution
financial productrural sales
B2B offers
rural insightsservice
implementation operations & support
sales & partnerships marketing
Rural Spark Energy India Pvt. Lt.d
Support
manufacturing& supply chainproduct innovationPrimary process
Management
Evan Prarabdh
Evan
Evan
Abhinav
Prarabdh
Harmen
financial management general management representation
Evan
Prarabdh Rob
sourcing and purchasing admin office management
DeepakDeepakAbhinav
Rural Spark BV* for financial support; R&D support; deal financial structure support; IT support and general
strategy
Deepak
Marcel
Harmen
Willem
Shahzeb
* Rural Spark B.V. is the Dutch entity (B.V. is the Dutch equivalent of Pvt. Ltd.) of Rural Spark from where some R&D, funding and financing, business support and partnerships are organised and provided.
product management
YOU!
YOU!
YOU!
Job position
Marcel
YOU!
FROM PRODUCT IDEA TO MASS PRODUCTION
JOIN RURAL SPARK AS ITS HEAD OF PRODUCTION
Being responsible for the products at Rural Spark, you manage the chain from design till production, warehousing and logistics. Together
with a very small team of engineers you secure quality and help us to scale up the production capacity.
Moreover, you will implement a lean supply chain keeping in mind the timelines and financial implications of the same.
You will work closely together with the marketing, sales and operational department, ensuring a steady, reliable flow of qualitative
products to be implemented in the field by these departments, and optimising costs of the products.
Job development and goals
Phase 1
Phase 2
Phase 3
3 month period
6 month period
12 month period
Improving and streamlining the existing production outcome in terms of quality, time management and supplier organisation.
Scale up the production from the current batch of products to a batch of 15.000 products.
Guarantee quality by clear procedures and training of quality management team (at factory and supplier end).
Set up the logistics and infrastructure for servicing broken products returning from customers, and train the team on logistics and service handling.
Further professionalize supply chain, warehousing and logistics, for cost, quality and time.
Limit the credit line requirements by optimising the payment agreements with the partners.
Phase: Improving & StabilisingOutcome: Lean supply and financing chain
Goal: Integrate & Innovate Outcome: Set team and procedures from a 360’ perspective
Phase: Professionalize & ScaleOutcome: Frozen production & quality procedures
Get a lean process from suppliers till warehouse, logistics, sales and services.
Scale the production towards a regular monthly supply of +/- 10.000 products.
Grow small in-house development team to design improved products. And extend the network of partners for prototype and product development.
Set up infrastructure for logistics from suppliers till factory, warehouse and customers.
Job requirements
Hard skills
Network / access
What you shouldn’t be
Soft skills
• Experience in project management and streamlining / designing the production process in an (Indian) factory set-up
• Experience in scaling production, and in optimising the supply-chain and cashflow from procurement till customer.
• Perfectionistic but hands on approach; with high understanding of quality and process management
• Understanding of product design / material knowledge in relevance to its production capability (preferred)
• Leader, with a structured approach and good planning skills
• Perfectionistic, but result focused and hands-on
• Experienced, ambitious and taking initiative
• External: networking, supplier relationship management, inspiring
• Internal: team player, interested in building a company, understanding the long-term goals of Rural Spark and his / her role in it
• Fluent in English (and Hindi preferred)
• Preferably access to a network of suppliers, manufacturers, and warehouses.
• Uncomfortable in startup environment that is growing to become a large business
• Single minded, not interested in team playing
• Unclear, confused or unstructured
• A dreamer only
What we offer
Be part of a winning team, dedicated to
changing the world, starting from India
A jobwhere you
contribute to the electrification of the
world, providing sustainable
solutions
Room to further develop yourself,
growing as a professional and as
a human being
A sufficient salary with the opportunity
for stronger involvement and
bonuses
6 months probation period, with fixed
contract after
Compensation for business travel expenses, laptop &
phone. 21 leave days + 12
public holidays An opportunity to really grow a
business creating huge impact and
revenues
2016 2017 2018 2019 2020
Rural Spark Kit ‘16 pilots 20,000 1,00,000 2,00,000 4,00,000
Product V3 to be developed pilots 3,000 30,000 1,50,000
Product V4 to be developed to be developed to be developed pilots 5,000
Prospected product numbers pan India
TOGETHER WE ARE GOING TO GROW LIKE CRAZY
JOIN OUR TEAM
www.ruralspark.com
Send us a mail at [email protected]
add your motivation to apply, plus your resume.
