Manager - Analyst- Planning

About the Team:

Planning is a central team responsible for creating business plans and forecasts to enable decision making for operational readiness. The team strives to build balanced plans to optimize superior customer experience, supply chain reliability and operating costs.

Role & responsibilities

• Understand key drivers of Supply Chain Speed from demand & supply side.
• Build input driven Speed forecast/plan for supply chain & bring consensus and finalize planning numbers with all functional stakeholders.
• Continuously track and monitor agreed plan and perform root cause analysis of any deviation.
• Work closely with Business & Network Design teams to drive Speed improvement charters & planning improvements.
• Work customer backwards to enhance customer experience through better Service Speeds.
• Understand product interaction to drive business use case led improvements with product.

Analytics:

• Ability to analyze large data and convert into simple presentable forms.
• Proficient in problem solving involving large data sets and advanced optimization.
• Produce trends and charts for performance monitoring and control on daily, weekly, monthly basis.
• Proficient in developing zero-touch automated solutions with self-serve capabilities.
• Ability to build sustainable models around supply chain planning KPIs using agile philosophy

Preferred candidate profile

• Education background Graduate (Engineering/Statistics).
• BE/BTech/MBA with 3-7 years of relevant work experience in Ecommerce, Manufacturing, FMCG, Analytics, Consulting.
• Strong analytical, problem solving, communication skills and teamwork.
• Knowledge of Network & supply planning , supply chain operations, inventory planning, demand forecasting is a plus.
• Hands-on experience with automation and capabilities in R/Python and SQL.
• Ability to infl uence stakeholders using data storytelling