Assistant Manager - Planning Analyst - Supply Chain

Assistant Manager - Planning Analyst

About the team :

- Planning is a central team responsible for creating business plans & forecasts to enable decision making & operational readiness. The team strives to build balanced plans to optimize superior 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 &; necessitates a collaborative individual who can build robust plans, understand complex tech products, build system configurations, negotiate and influence business partners across different functions.

About the role :

- The role entails developing detailed and scientific supply chain plans for ekart operations and tracking the relevant metrics for plan adherence .

- There are 2 major responsibilities that the analyst in the role would be delivering upon a) Capacity Planning & b) Capacity management .

- The person would be reporting to the CL planning lead.

What you'll do :

Supply Chain :

- Understand key drivers of Supply Chain from demand and supply side

- Build input driven scientific plan/forecast for supply chain & monitor key supply chain metrics

- Innovate new ways of working to improve forecasts & optimize supply chain cost, reliability & speed.

- Work with large teams to bring consensus and finalize planning numbers with all functional stakeholder

- 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 & drive business use case led improvements with product

Analytics :

- Ability to analyse large data and convert into simple presentable forms

- Proficient in problem solving involving large data sets & 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

What you'll need :

- Education background ; Graduate (Engineering/Statistics)

- 1 to 3 years of relevant work experience in Analytics, Consulting, FMCG, eCommerce, Manufacturing

- Strong analytical, problem solving, communication skills & team work

- Knowledge of supply strategies, supply planning, supply chain operations, inventory planning, and demand forecasting is a plus.

- Hands-on experience with automation and capabilities in R/Python etc.

Location : Bangalore, Karnataka

Experience : 1 to 4 Years

Skills Required : Excel, R/Python

Desirable Skills : Knowledge of supply strategies, supply planning, supply chain operations, inventory planning, demand forecasting is a plus.

Department : All Departments