What is the role? The role leads all Planning (supply, demand, profitability) and Supply Chain Operations for Mobiles - that's around 40 million phones! Practically the entire category will be your key stakeholders; beyond those, you will work with internal stakeholders such as Product, Engineering, Central Supply Chain Planning, Design and Operations, Business Finance; and also external stakeholders such as brands, logistics partners etc. Key activities include: 1. Planning a. AOP: Jointly (with category head) create the AOP Track and deliver the AOP on an on-going basis Recommend specific interventions to correct deviations in achievement vs plan b. Supply: - Set joint targets with KAMs and OEMs/brands on product portfolio (broad pricing, specs, launch timing and inventory) - Leverage unique vantage point of the market and competition launches to drive product strategy and PRM (product roadmap; i.e. recommend opportunity areas and prevent not only portfolio gaps but also directly competing products and product positioning) - Define and recommend PLC (product life-cycle) by modeling sell-through incorporating market insights, sale-events, price-drops and competitive behaviour c. Demand: - Set joint sales (traffic and conversion) targets with sell-side and category marketing / GTM teams - Track daily, periodic and time-bound demand for BAU, flash- and event-based sales, across specific models, brands and overall category d. Margins and planning accuracy - Collaborate with business finance, KAMs and sell-side teams to maximize returns on investments (whether they be in pricing discounts, marketing etc.) - Pioneer new structures to achieve sell-out without pricing investments - Improve planning accuracy to eliminate SMNM stock, while also reducing opportunity costs for sales loss 2. Supply chain management a. SC Planning - Create, share and tweak plans for slotting inbound and outbound dispatch with IPC - Innovate to manage peculiarities of the mobiles business model of flash sales and JIT manufacturing - Manage ad-hoc requests for sell-in and sell-out in accordance with the business requirements b. In-stock and outbound - Ensure supplies from OEMs/brands are awarded in-time and in-full, despite peculiarities of the supply and competing for client-level priorities - Manage central teams to ensure right distribution of stock across FCs - Minimize QC and other rejections to maximize sell-in - Ensure smooth high-velocity outbound with customer-friendly SLAs - PO generation and tracking to fulfilment c. Sale support - Go-live of launches, flash and event- sales d. Reconciliation, reporting and compliance - PO vs invoicing including rejection, short-supply, excess-supply etc. - Managing customer escalations - IWIT, RU and DOH compliance 3. Special projects a. Reach enhancement: not just delivery but also full-service stack such as exchange and VAS offerings such as CMP b. RTO reduction c. Segment share improvement - premium (&gt;25k) segment (EDGE program), entry-level (&lt;7k) segment etc. What is the team? - You will report into the category head and will have a seat at the management table making decisions that impact both the category and the organization - You will have two leads, one each for Planning and SCM reporting into you, each with 3-6 member teams - You may also have a projects team to drive time-bound specific objective and result oriented projects (such as driving leadership in specific segments, for example) What does it take? - Stakeholder management and negotiation - Data-orientation, analytical prowess, live numbers - Structured, creative and ad-hoc problem solving - all of it by context - Business acumen - Presence - Values - Audacity, Bias for action and Customer centricity Preferences: - 10-15 years of high-performance work experience - Post-graduate degree desired, but not required - Experience with similar roles in the retail industry or smartphones will be highly desired.

Bangalore

Director - Planning & Supply Chain Management - Retail/Consumer Durable 

Director - Planning & Supply Chain Management - Retail/Consumer Durable  ,Job Description for Director - Planning & Supply Chain Management - Retail/Consumer Durable  in RGF Professional Recruitment India in  Bangalore for (10-15) years of experience. Apply Now!

Job Description for Director - Planning & Supply Chain Management - Retail/Consumer Durable  in RGF Professional Recruitment India in  Bangalore for (10-15) years of experience. Apply Now!