Flipkart - Manager - Business Planning - IIM/ISB/MDI/FMS

Looking for candidates from Tier 1 MBA Background with good experience in Business Planning

What this job entails :

- Leading the planning charter for the Category, PnL management, ensuring seamless customer experience and responsible for overall business growth.

Customer understanding :

- Be the voice of the customer internally

- Understand needs - even those that the customers themselves may not realize

- Stay on top of changing trends and strategic priorities through in-depth data analysis to predict customer behavior

Price Recommendation :

- Develop the right pricing policy - identify opportunities for giving customers value through intelligent and limited discounting.

- Use discounting to drive portfolio mix and achieve strategic goals

Planning & Analytics :

- Annual Business Planning

- Monthly planning exercise

- Portfolio planning & management

- Strong analytical understanding and handy application of data for generating insights

- Creating Reporting and analytics framework

Catalogue :

- Own catalogue content creation - lead catalogue photoshoot & content creation, drive this via internal catalogue & marketing teams

- Drive better conversions through catalogue improvement & enhancement basis customer insights

Operations :

- Work with internal sourcing, quality & design team to track key project milestones, ensure processes are followed for review & reporting of the same

- Work with buying and sourcing teams to plan inventory & inwarding as per requirement, ensure inventory sufficiency & reduce non-selling inventory

Offer & promotions :

- Create promotions to drive revenue, margins, etc.

- Own both creation and execution of promotions calendar including special occasions (Diwali, Valentine's day, etc.)

Market understanding & Changing Trends :

- Keep track of external trends and deploy critical learnings

- Understanding of external market size, competition, offline retail, market share

Associations and collaborations :

The role requires close collaboration with following teams :

- Category Business Development

- Central Marketing

- Business Finance

- Analytics

- Product Team

- Merchandising and Marketing