About the Role
Purpose of Vendor Development Cell
Lodha's ability to deliver world-class experiences ultimately depends on having the right vendor partners: those who share our obsession with quality, timeliness, and integrity. As we continuously raise the bar on vendor screening, onboarding, and retention, we are equally focused on making Lodha easier to work with and ensuring our vendor partners are set up for success. VDC seeks to serve as the guardian of this philosophy and ensure that the “right” partners ‘love’ working for Lodha by ensuring reasonable profitability and no bureaucracy with a ‘trust first’ and ‘both learn from each other’ attitude
Role overview
This is a role for someone who knows construction from the inside – who understands what it feels like to be on the other side of a delayed payment or an unresolved billing dispute, and who wants to use that knowledge to make Lodha’s contractor ecosystem work better for everyone. As the primary point of contact within our Vendor Development Cell,



you will own the end-to-end resolution of vendor pain-points across packages, projects, and locations, and build the systems that prevent those problems from coming back.
You will operate at the intersection of construction, procurement, finance, and people, which means real exposure across the organisation, meaningful influence over how Lodha works with its partners, and a visible mandate that comes directly from leadership. If you have spent years solving problems on site and are ready to solve them at scale, this is your prospect to do exactly that.
Key Responsibilities
1. Be the Vendor’s Problem-Solver
- Own the structured diagnosis of vendor and contractor pain-points across the full construction value chain: from tendering and contracting through billing, payments, retention, debits, scope gaps, and compliance, and drive them to resolution, not just acknowledgement
- Go beyond symptoms; identify root causes using construction expertise and benchmarks, an

📌 Manager - Vendor Relationships & Development (Mumbai)
🏢 Lodha Developers
📍 Mumbai