Flipkart - Lead/Engagement Manager - Planning - Fulfillment Services Ecosystem

Fulfillment Services Ecosystem - Planning - Introduction

Fulfillment Services Ecosystem (FSE) planning is the part of larger Commerce Platform Planning team comprising of other Planning functions like Inventory Planning, Demand Planning and S&Op planning.

FSE Planning aims to create infinite scale in the fulfillment ecosystem in India to help Flipkart scale explosively within the boundary conditions of Efficiency, Serviceability, and growth and long term strategic intent. The team engages in solving complex planning problems positioned at the interface of Demand and Supply Chain Logistics world raging from Assumptions planning, Network predictability, Allocation Planning and Re- Planning. We chase some of the ambitious targets around Scale, Customer Experience and Cost by effectively planning the Supply. The team is surrounded by stakeholders like Category Management, Business Finance, Technology, Product, Analytics and Supply Chain Partners

The entire Planning team rolls up to the larger Strategy and Planning/Fulfillment team led by best leaders available in India today.

A Senior Engagement Manager in team is responsible to managing a small team of 3-4 rockstar Analysts and will be responsible for all deliverable marked to the Vertical within his team. He usually will have 5-8 years of well-rounded experience across functions ranging from Analytics, Marketing, and Supply Chain & Operations. He will also have strong Individual Contributor role where he would be engaging himself in solving planning problems by getting deep into data, bringing insights and preparing the business case for change

Typical Roles & Responsibilities

- Review return on investment and demand and Supply sensitivity curves, provide inputs for business planning to relevant stakeholders, monitor progress against plans and work with Category Management, Other Commerce Planning, functions like Demand Planning, inventory planning and finance teams to recommend changes to plan, if required

- Partner with category and functions like (Supply Chain, Engineering & business finance) teams to proactively identify, develop and drive strategies and initiative

- Sensing the market to stay on top of trends in an ever-changing ecosystem and finding opportunities and prioritize based on size, internal capabilities, etc

Skills & experience of People who have done well in the Job so Far

- Rational decision-making, negotiating and influencing skills. An analytical work style. The ability to work effectively on a team or independently. Accountability, initiative, integrity and maturity are pre- requisites

- Ability to deal with huge ambiguous data sets coming out disparate systems and in tools and spreadsheets of several distributed teams

- Strong business and Financial acumen to convert a number analysis into a business story and having strong ability to articulate. Build and fortify a strong business/data models by going in depth and understanding where opportunities are and chasing them with innovative ideas

- Ability to work with Spreadsheets and R for doing daily analysis .

- Must be innovative, detail-oriented, experienced in highly visible/controversial projects

- Ability to work like a corporate Entrepreneur with minimum hand holding and defining the correct path for the team members and stakeholders surrounding the business to achieve results

- Customer first Approach in Solving any problems and ability to Quantify the Risk to the Customer Metrics for any decision or approach

- Ability to stay unbounded and do not restrict himself to the Job Description.

- Potential to change the job description himself with directional changes ( Flipkart is a very dynamic work environment and we out do our roles almost every 3 months)

- Strong Self Conviction and passionate