Associate Director - Inventory Planning

About the Role

You will co-lead the Inventory Planning team for the Non-large Businesses of FK. You will be responsible for Replenishment Charter, Brand and Ekart Engagement Charters within the central Inventory Planning team of Flipkart.

You will be responsible for:

As Lead for the Replenishment Charter

• Own the speed-related inventory metrics (RU/ CF) for the Non-large businesses
• Manage Inter-warehouse replenishment (IWIT) to ensure right placement of inventory closer to customer locations. Maximize sales from closest locations with optimal inventory levels
• Manage distribution and replenishment of seller inventories
• Engage with Product teams to build new Products for enhanced IWIT capabilities and to review existingIWIT logics and improve Product performance.
• Engage with Ekart to align IWIT capacities, to orchestrate truck movements and to solve cost

As Lead of the Brand engagement Charter

• Be the single point of contact from a supply chain perspective for brands and vice versa
• As part of this engagement with brands, liaise with them for better instocks.

  Own zonal instock metrics for brands

• Resolve supply chain related issues for brands
• Support Ekart to resolve packaging, logistics or other issues with brands
• Drive brand led FK initiatives such as Sourcing Hub, VMI etc.
• Own Sourcing Hub revenue generation. Onboard vendors through engagement with Categories and brands
• Ensure process streamlining for Sourcing Hub - liaise with Ekart for capacities, orchestrate flows
• Own Inwarding operations - unlock any inwarding challenges in FCs - by liaising with categories, Ekart
• Own reverse operations engagement - Capacity orchestration and processing of reverse orders to brands - liaise with Categories/ brands / ekart for unlocks
• Establish processes, policies and metrics for mentioned responsibilities
• Building right metrics, dashboards and visibility for actionability

To succeed in this role – you should have the following

• Strong stakeholder management capability - ability to influence senior stakeholders with often diverging goals
• Strong leadership capability - guide team in ambiguous scenarios and keep team motivated
• Ability to think strategically and develop longer term sustainable solutions
• Ability to define processes, establish ownership, align stakeholders and drive accountability
• Rational decision-making, negotiating and influencing skills. An analytical work style.
• Accountability, initiative, integrity and maturity are pre- requisites.
• Strong business and Financial acumen to convert a number analysis into a business story and having strong ability to articulate. Build and fortify a strong business/data models by going in depth and understanding where opportunities are and chasing them with innovative ideas
• Customer first Approach in Solving any problems and ability to Quantify the Risk to the Customer Metrics for any decision or approach
• Strong Self Conviction and passionate
• A Team player who is approachable and collaborative
• A self starter who demonstrates ability to bring multiple teams on the same page

Mandatory Skills

Stakeholder Management, Leadership capability Communication Skills, Presentation Skills, Management Skills,Analytical Ability, Business Analysis, Interpersonal Skills, Inventory Management, Inventory Planning, Capacity Planning, Team Building