Flipkart - Manager - Retail Inventory Planning

Drive Inventory and Inbound Planning balancing working capital, Category and Supply goals with Category Design Organisation, Central Planning, Finance and Product Organisation for Cluster of Categories and maximise the following

1. In Stock%

2. Free cash Flow for Retail Business by way of inventory DOH allocation as per given norms

3. Customer delivery speed by way of geographic allocations as per customer demand profile.

You will be part of the Horizontal and will take the End to End view of Inventory and decisions which Impacts Service, Efficiency and Growth.

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

Must have:

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

- 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.

- 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.

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

- Strong Self Conviction and passionate

Good to have:

- 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

- 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)