Senior Manager - Business Planning - Footwear

Designation: Senior Manager.
Department: Category (Footwear).
Role/ Position: Business Planning.
Location of Joining: Delhi/NCR.
Years of Experience: 10+ Years.
Qualification Required: FDDI Post Graduate Preferably.
Business Justification for Hiring:
- With growing business & specific business channel requirements, there is a need for strengthening India footwear planning.- Due to changing compliance / Quality requirements within footwear business, a combination of Imports & Local production is becoming critical.- On day to day basis, there are challenges with India factory production output, there is a need to juggle the production planning to meet business requirements. Brief Overview of the Role:
- Complete ownership of Business planning which includes Production Planning, Merchandising, Vendor management, tooling management planning along with factory capacity planning.- The role would be to drive the efficiency and effectiveness of the factory deliverables.- The person will need to have strong sense of the current & future production output plan. Job Specification:
- Candidate qualified from FDDI / NIFT / production planning background.- Experience working with Footwear divisions.- Fluent in English communication, in both written and spoken.- Fast learner, team player and has sense of urgency.- Should possess Strong sense of process orientation.- Detail oriented, follows procedures & should have Ability to multi-task in a fast-paced environment.- Flexible work schedule: Able to work stretched hours as needed. Job Description:
- Drive the overall business planning for footwear category PAN India. - Understand the dynamics of each channel - Retail, MBO, Distribution & Ecom to strengthen the business. - OTB planning & governance for the business & ensuring necessary approvals in place before placing buys. - Defining Footwear Annual Buy plan. - Governing agreed GM% deliverables for the business. - Managing and planning COGS% to MRP for the season. - For Local manufacturing, Measure & monitor factory KPIs and ensure that Vendor scorecards are maintained including OTIF and intime delivery percentage. - Plan & drive factory production capacity planning. - Ensuring the tooling requirement is aligned with the sales orders. - Align the factories to have proper communication to global team & defining SOPs and industry best practices in planning & reporting. - Prepare detailed analytics with clear action points on a continuous basis including production tracking tools to provide effective and timely visibility to Brand. - Visits to production facilities for discussion on production planning & weekly monthly dispatches.

- Collaborate with all the factories to ensure on time deliveries, escalation of issues where required.