Manager - Planning Job in Flipkart

About the team

Inventory planning and control (IPC) is the central planning team in flipkart - responsible for just utilisation of storage assets (FCs) and manpower deployed in those FCs, while supporting business aspirations and enabling Flipkart to meet customer expectations.

IPC team is responsiblefor inventory placement across multiple assets - right inventory in the right location, to ensure right selection is availableto customers, and within acceptable cost & speed guardrails.

We work veryclosely with business and supply chain to ensure infrastructure and resources are availableto support growth aspirations, at the same time allocate resources across Seller - BUs to optimise Flipkart level business goals.

IPC gets involvedin events to plan inventory buildup for each Seller - BU to support them to follow theirown trajectory basis supply availabilityand working capitaloptimization needs

We also support smooth running of operations for inwarding and returns to ensure working capitalis always put to productive use, and in doing so pass on right signals for planning to ensure efficiency improvement in overall operations.

About the role

Manager (Individual contributor role) to drive Inventory Planning for Retail with

cross functional stakeholders, namely Categories, Bizfin, Supply Chain,

Product, Supply chain operation and others

Responsible for driving Inventory planning for one of critical category,

understanding its nuances and building inventory planning policies (buying,

placement, inventory balancing etc.) helping to drive key inventory metrics

In-stock, causals of In-stock drop driving structural interventions to drive In-

stock at right inventory level (DOH days on hand) Regional Utilisation,

Inventory turns, In-stock and Inventory health. In addition contribute to one of

the capability teams within Inventory Planning , namely Placement, Policy &

Health

You will be part of the Horizonatal and will take the End to End view of

Inventory and decisions which impacts Service to our customers, Cost and

Cash.This role will give you opportunity to manage Inventory at Flipkart scale

very uncommon in ecommerce domain

What youll do:

Should have very strong problem solving and design solving skills

Rational decision-making, negotiating and influencing skills with an

analytical work style. The ability to work effectively on a team or

independently is highly desirable

Ability to deal with huge ambiguous data sets coming out disparate

systems and in tools and spreadsheets of several distributed teams

Business and Financial acumen to convert a number analysis into a

business story

Ability to work with large data set on spreadsheets is a must.

Experience inR and Python is a plus

Must be innovative, detail-oriented, experienced in highly

visible/controversial projects

Ability to deal with huge ambiguous data sets coming out disparate

systems and in tools and spreadsheets of several

distributed teams

Strong business and Financial acumen to convert a number analysis

into a business story. Build and fortify a strong business/data models

by going in depth

Customer first Approach in Solving any problems and ability to Quantify

the Risk to the Customer Metrics for any decision or approach

Ability to stay unbounded and do not restrict himself to the Job

Description.

Potential to change the job description himself with directional changes

( Flipkart is a very dynamic work environment and we out do our roles

almost every 3 months)

Strong Self Conviction and passionate

What youll need:

• 2-3 years of experience with MBA/Engineering background - Premier B School

• - Data oriented Problem solving

• - Any of Inventory / Supply planning / SNOP / Business analytics

• experience

• - Negotiation & Influencing large set of stakeholders

• - Strong data analytical skills (R preferred highly)