Flipkart - Senior Manager - Operations - Oil & Gas Segment

About Flipkart :

In 2007, we started the Flipkart journey by selling books online. But now, over a decade later, our story is quite different. Today, Flipkart is India's largest online marketplace and one of India's leading technology powerhouse that is disrupting the way India shops online. What has got us here? The dynamic, passionate and talented folks we call Flipsters!

Our core values define our identity and form the basis of our actions and reflect in everything that we do at Flipkart. Values enable us to shape the desired organizational culture in which each Flipster can thrive and be at their best. We believe in taking bold bets and changing the paradigm, having a sense of urgency to solve problems strategically and putting great ideas into action. We look at the world from our customer's point of view and keep customers at the heart of everything we do. We strive to do the right thing always and be committed to our customers and stakeholders.

About the role :

A large part of Flipkart's growth as far as categories are concerned is through the management and development of Key accounts. Ever since Flipkart's migration to a marketplace model, there has been a keen focus on the development of key accounts for the growth of respective categories. Key accounts for a category can include large brands or large vendors who deal with products from a particular line. The incumbent will be given sole responsibility of a number of key accounts, and will thereby be expected to grow the category as far as key accounts are concerned.

About the team :

Flipkart's first online grocery supermarket, in a store-in-store format. Currently launched in 5 cities - Bangalore, Hyderabad, Chennai, Delhi-NCR & Mumbai. Wide assortment of household products made available online at high quality and freshness standards; at best prices. Join a team obsessed with providing best value & experience to the customers, progressively shaping the business and industry evolution through systematic learning & experimentation

What you'll do :

- Achievement of organizational targets (KPI) of Sales, Margins, inventory, Supply chain for Commodity.

- To understand member's requirements and execute product strategies to deliver financial targets. Build cost-effective, sustainable and scalable supply chains and items for differentiation, volume growth and Quality.

- Focus on developing leadership in Commodity through good merchandising practices,

- Sourcing practices and building vendor base national and regional vendors in coordination with Stores as demanded by members.

- Risk management of the category keeping constant watch on the markets and respond effectively through buying (Market trends) and merchandising (Category Mix).

1. Sales & Margin - Achievement of KPIs - Sales, margins, Dump & Shrink, DOH , Inventory turns in coordination with Operations.

- Buying as per MOP

- Rotation and replenishment of stocks

- Coordination with store on daily basis for price and stocks

- Correction of prices as per MOP / COMP

- Driving category/ Sub Cat- Flours, Pulses, spices, Ready-mixes, Ghee & Olive Oil for higher margin

- Seasonality planning / Event planning for high sales and margin

2. Establish Supply Chain with required compliance fulfilment

- Map vendors for Just in Time deliveries.

- Correction of supply chain basis club feedback

- Supply chain arrangements @ stores with the competitive supply locations / price comparison before buying

- Preparation of market report / trends of major sales items

- Comp items price correction & change in buying locations

3. Vendor build up and their business growth following company policies

- Identification and creation of wider vendor base in high volume items

- Regular touch up with vendor / supplier partner for better price recovery

- Regular feedback on quality and price

- Half yearly review with top 10 supplier partner / closure of TOT

- Stand by vendor @ origin locations to avoid any supply / price / quality issue