Senior Manager- Planning

About the Role:

The Senior Manager - Planning-

The position requires an individual to have relevant supply chain/analytical experience and expertise to enable scientific decision making and performance improvement measures. The role necessitates a collaborative individual who can build robust plans, understand complex tech products, build system configurations, negotiate, and influence business partners across different functions at Flipkart.

About the Team:

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

The position requires an individual to have relevant supply chain/analytical experience and expertise to enable scientific decision making and performance improvement measures.

The role involves high interaction with Flipkart products and necessitates a collaborative individual who can build robust plans, understand complex tech products, build system configurations, negotiate and influence business partners across different functions at Flipkart.

Responsibilities:

Planning & Business Analysis:

• Work closely with Business teams to understand the business model and develop Capacity models/plan.
• Work customer backwards to enhance customer experience through better Service Speeds.
• Be an SME for Capacity planning with in-depth understanding of Capacity planning models and tools, processes.
• Drive Speed / Capacity planning improvements. Identify and implement cost reduction and waste removal initiatives.

Planning Processes:

• Closely monitor the Capacity/Speed metrics performance, develop insights and course correct plans.
• Develop and continuously evolve dashboarding/reporting to ensure a Laser-sharp focus on Capacity/Speed metrics.
• Champion data-driven decision making. Translate data analysis into decision recommendations for the business.
• Work towards developing solutions using GScripts / R / Python to automate Planning models and processes.

Supply Chain :

• Understand key drivers of Supply Chain from demand and supply side.
• Build input driven scientific plan/forecast for supply chain and; monitor key supply chain metrics.
• Innovate new ways of working to improve forecasts and optimize supply chain cost, reliability and speed.
• Work with large teams to bring consensus and finalize planning numbers with all functional stakeholders.
• Continuously track specific resource and space requirements based on agreed plans with Supply Chain stakeholders.
• Build planning configurations in tech products to ensure smooth supply chain execution.
• Understand product interactions and 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 & 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.

To succeed in this role – you should have the following:

• 5-10 years of relevant work experience in Planning / Analytics roles in Consulting, FMCG, Ecommerce, Manufacturing domains.
• Strong analytical, problem solving, communication skills & team work.
• Basic functional knowledge of supply strategies, supply planning, supply chain operations, inventory planning, demand forecasting is a plus.
• Hands-on experience with automation and capabilities in R/Python.
• Excellent analytical ability, Expertise in tools - MS Excel/SQL/R/Power BI, Demonstrated ability in setting up new processes.