The Associate Director of Inventory Planning Cell contributes to Flipkart's success by providing leadership and strategic direction to inventory planning team to optimize Inventory Plans and Management, analytical strategies, inventory decisions and flow in partnership with other functional areas like Category Verticals, Downstream Supply Chain Design & Operations, Demand and Supply Planning functions, Product & tech and Business Finance. The position reports to the Director for Inventory planning and Retail Operations. Together with the team he would work closely with the Category Merchandise Managers, Central Planning Teams, Product and Engineering, to set direction and priorities for the Inventory Policies ( defining how much, when and what ) in line with Flipkart Growth, Service and Efficiency goals measured as InStock%, Retail Cash flow, and Delivery SLAs. He would be part of a horizontal structure in between Flipkart Business Development and Supply Chain functions leading a matrix team . Understanding and balancing goals on both worlds becomes key to create enablements to succeed and deliver. He will Model the Problem and Solution using a very factual management science based approach delivering decision models and execute the recommendations along with the stakeholders to deliver the results. He should typically 1. Drive horizontal efforts to improve working capital efficiency, forecast accuracy, service quality and overall business planning effectiveness 2. Able to develop constructive and effective relationships with direct report team and cross- functional partners; able to maintain credibility and presence within the broader business. 3. Drives top-down and bottom-up recurring inventory plans with the stakeholder team using a scientific Inventory Domain expertise resulting in the development, communication, and execution of inventory plans that achieve financial goals at product categorical levels. 4. Works deeply with Supply Chain team to deliver on designs and capacities to maintain service standards prescribed from time to time in short mid and long term in an ever evolving network footprint of Flipkart 5. Work closely with Product and Engineering planting deep domain into the systems to create scalable decision making platforms 6. Communicates periodic inventory position to stakeholders and re-forecast in- season/recurring open-to-buy plans based on weekly, monthly and seasonal performance and provide recommendations that improve inventory productivity to maximize Cash Flow, InStock and Service 7. Supports the implementation of company programs, procedures, methods and practices to promote Flipkart new direction 8. Oversees training and development of employees directly and indirectly managed and makes effective staffing decisions. 9. Provides coaching, direction and leadership support to employees in order to achieve department, company and customer results. 10. Establishes and maintains visibility within the department and with Stakeholders and influencing them factually using Science of Inventory Planning 11. Monitors operational statistics, reports trends, variances and issues, and takes appropriate action. 12. Leverage expert knowledge, research to establish, implement and maintain best practices methodologies for inventory management People who would fit the bill: 1. 6-9 years of Merchandising Inventory Management experience including management, forecasting, replenishment, allocation and analysis 2. Expert Knowledge of retail, merchandising and end-to-end supply chain process in a multi-channel distributed Supply Chain environment 3. Strong belief in how Technology can solve problems in scalable way and clear bias in use of systems daily 4. Needs to have knowledge of industry best practices for analytics and inventory management processes and how they support the long range inventory strategy. 5. Must have demonstrated knowledge of mathematical modeling and problem solving using very scientific operational research based approach. Should have strong number bias and be able to work in modeling tools like R, Shiney, Sql, SPSS etc 6. Must be able to influence Executive Leadership through strong critical thinking and leveraging change management techniques. 7. Should Build capacity of individuals and teams through effective employee development, involvement, communication, and supervision efforts. 8. Creates a strong, mutually supportive work spirit and culture where people can do their best. 9. Uses Science, innovative thinking, and sound judgment in the solution of problems or the pursuit of business opportunities in line with Flipkart's service goals 10. Fosters change in company direction effectively plans and executes changes. 11. Strong ability to perform in highly ambiguous environment with ever changing job descriptions, juggling multiple projects 12. Ability to perform without demanding clarity and handholding is must for the Job Qualifications 1. A B.tech/B.E degree from Top Tier Engineering Institutes with a Masters MS or MBA degree from Top 10 B School 2. 5+ years of experience across industry sectors solving problems in a management science based approach across Supply Chain and business with demonstrated business impact 3. Amazing Problem solving, analytical ability with strong business acumen 4. Great strategic thinker, strong communicator, and confident decision-maker that is able to partner and influence 5. Comfortable handling huge complex data sets in disparate systems and cutting edge tools to derive insights and recommendations

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Flipkart - Associate Director - Inventory Planning - IIT/NIT/BITS 

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