CroFarm - Senior Manager - Planning

At Crofarm, we are helping businesses procure premium quality fruits and vegetables at non-premium prices. At the same time, we are helping growers get value for their produce. Our customers range from your neighbourhood fruit shop to bigger corporates like Reliance.

If you have knack for solving this problem for businesses, then join us on this journey. We are looking for Sr Manager Planning.

Responsibilities :

- Analyzing and predicting demand for various SKUs and a day-to-day basis. Using that to manage inventory and continuously improve on excess procurement and/or shortfall.

- Driving margins across categories and continuously providing insights on how to increase margins.

- Continuously analyzing key business metrics like shortfall, rejection, delivery times and wastage, coming up with process inputs to improve and liasoning with other functions to implement the same.

- Using historical data to predict impact of seasons, festivals, SKUs coming in, going out and gearing the system to proactively respond to these situations.

- Liasoning with other functions - Sales, Operations, Purchase, Finance and Technology to drive process implementation against business objectives and continuously monitoring progress against the same.

Requirements :

- At least 2-3 years experience in production planning of 24x7 operations

- Strong analytical skills

- An engineering / MBA degree is mandatory