Festive season hiring spree: Flipkart-owned Myntra to hire 16,000 people in various roles; details

With the festive season arriving, leading online fashion brand Myntra is set to offer 16,000 jobs as it plans massive hiring across various roles. People will be hired in job vacancies in delivery, logistics and warehouse handling. 

From the total of 16,000 vacancies, 10,000 jobs will be “direct employment opportunities while the rest 6,000 will be “indirect,” Myntra’s CHRO Nupur Nagpal was quoted by the Economic Times.  This is considered to be the highest hiring till now in any holiday season, the executive added. 

Last year during the festive season, Myntra had created around 11,000 jobs, it was reported. 

Out of the jobs to be offered this time, the hirings for the contact centre roles will be contractual while the company is likely to retain around half of the hirings done in the supply chain positions. 

The job vacancies will include openings from sorting, packing, picking, loading, unloading, delivery, inspection and cargo management.

Myntra, which sold 50 lakh items daily during its 2022 flagship sale “End of Reason Sale" (EORS) in June, also has a new office in Bengaluru that reportedly has a capacity of 2,600 people. 

Meanwhile, Myntra recently announced its big fashion sale for the festive shopping season called the `Big Fashion Festival` (BFF) will be starting soon.

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