About Flipkart

Who We Are

Flipkart was given wings in the year 2007 by two IIT alumni, Sachin and Binny Bansal. In what has been a stupendous six year journey so far, today we stand tall as India's largest ecommerce marketplace, with the highest sales of consumer electronic products and books, surpassing large offline chains in these categories. With more than a million visitors every day, and a registered user base of 10 million we are one among the top 10 websites in India today.

Our focus has always been on making online shopping a delightful experience for customers - and that will always be our core purpose. With rapid growth in internet adoption and mobility, e-commerce is poised to grow manifold, and Flipkart is strongly positioned to leverage this opportunity. Patronage from investors has been encouraging ever since Flipkart was born and recently Flipkart rose over Rs. 6000 crores in funding, reposing investors- faith in us. We aimed to hit USD 1 billion in GMV by 2015, but reached that goal early 2014! Our vision is to be $20 billion Company by 2020.

Yes, we have great plans for the future, but we have come this far in a short span of 6 years, largely because we have stayed focused on hiring and retaining the best talent and offering our employees great opportunities for learning, skill development and growth.

Flipkart's vision is to be the most preferred destination for ALL shoppers in India

What We Do

Flipkart's vision is to be the most preferred destination for ALL shoppers in India

Position: Associate Director of Supply Planning

Job Description

The Associate Director of Supply Planning is responsible for supporting the integration of various assets in the Supply Chain function with Demand and balancing Demand objectives with the operational and financial constraints of the Supply Chain function. It is a cross-functional leadership level role, which keeps the organization informed of the Supply Chain health in terms of right metrics, identifying and driving supply chain initiatives to support Demand and working to resolve cross-functional initiatives. The role works with various supply chain functions in planning capacities including labour, space, equipment and financial.

Roles and Responsibilities

- Overall management of the supply planning process, ensuring a regular forecast consensus process with the Retail and Demand teams

- Oversees translation of demand into supply plans and reconciliation of these for various operational assets

- Monitor and report on exceptions on Supply Chain load based on forecast accuracy and wrong prediction of requirements on Supply Chain assets

- Ensure corrective processes and in place to resolve exceptions

- Collaborate with the Demand and Supply Planners team to produce and oversee analytical projects and ad-hoc analysis needed to support the Planning Teams

- Responsible for product flow planning for new product launches or major events through the Supply Chain team.

- Responsible for defining targets for various Supply Chain assets based on the Demand Supply match.

- Develop, maintain and demonstrate advanced systems and design knowledge in order to build integrated systems and business processes.

- Compile data indicating the Supply Chain effectiveness both in terms of operational and sales efficiency and recalibrate planning based on these inputs

- Establish the S&OP process for the entire company

- Drive and facilitate the S&OP review meeting ensuring that the right data is available from all the stakeholders such as Finance, Purchasing, Inventory, Marketing, CS and Supply Chain assets

Expertise

- Masters degree in Supply Chain or Operations

- 10+ years experience with forecasting, inventory management, demand planning

- Experience with forecasting tools such as SAP, JDA, SAS, Oracle etc.

- Experience in Retail or CPG Industry

- Strong understanding of Supply Chain finance and capital budgets

- Strong people management and cross functional leadership experience

Skills and Competencies

- Exceptional Supply Chain knowledge with focus on Planning

- Exceptional understanding of various facets of Demand and how they would impact Supply Chain

- Exceptional Problem Solving and Analytical Skills

- Strong stakeholder management skills across Operations, Business Finance, Inventory Planning, Merchandising and Category, Marketing and Customer Service teams

- Exceptional people management and leadership skills

- Strategic and Long Term thinking

- Strong facilitation and change management skills

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