Director - Instock & Planning - eCommerce

Role Overview

Planning and analytics for retail supply and supply integration sits at the nexus of business, technology, and operations processes. The Director translates business strategy into executable processes and proactively identifies the need for new processes.

This role will manage internal forecasting and ordering processes to deliver industry-best performance in inventory management KPIs (Buyability, Customer Impressions OOS, Inventory Out-of-stock-, inventory levels, Retail Cash Flows etc).

We are looking for candidates with strong analytical skills, an ability to dive deeply into problems in Supply Chain Management and experience working cross-functionally.

Key Responsibilities

- Plan an influential x-functional Initiatives , analyze risks of the planned program and oversee and influence collaboration with other teams, to ensure the affiliated/cross functional teams to successfully complete the program implementation and support business growth.

- Own the Tech development roadmaps with Engineers around the heavy-duty decision-making capabilities established through heavy duty analytics to drive performance.

- Design and manage feedback loops from Operations, Business, and Suppliers to key technology teams and help the organization build best in class enterprise capabilities.

- Establish procedures to translate expected business outcomes into system settings.

- Guide the development of processes and controls to monitor behavior of our Forecasting, Ordering and Inventory Management and Supplier Integration systems.

- Set goals and OKRs for inventory management KPIs that push the boundaries of current capabilities and drive short term and mid-term impact

- Manage and develop an exceptional group of talent who work at the confluence of business and technology.

Requirements

- Tier 1 MBA graduate degree preferred.

- Extensive experience in Retail, Supply Chain, Inventory Management, or related field; experience with solving supply side problems around Pricing, Inventory, Suppliers, Selection and Catalog is desirable

- Experience working with stakeholders in Business, Technology and Operations; in e-Commerce and Retail industry preferred.