Who We Are  Flipkart was given wings in the year 2007 by two IIT alumni, Sachin and Binny Bansal. In what has been a stupendous six year journey so far, today we stand tall as India’s largest ecommerce marketplace, with the highest sales of consumer electronic products and books, surpassing large offline chains in these categories. With more than a million visitors every day, and a registered user base of 10 million we are one among the top 10 websites in India today. Our focus has always been on making online shopping a delightful experience for customers – and that will always be our core purpose. With rapid growth in internet adoption and mobility, e-commerce is poised to grow manifold, and Flipkart is strongly positioned to leverage this opportunity. Patronage from investors has been encouraging ever since Flipkart was born and recently Flipkart rose over Rs. 2000 crores in funding, reposing investors’ faith in us. We aimed to hit USD 1 billion in GMV by 2015, but reached that goal early 2014! Our vision is to be $20 billion Company by 2020.   Yes, we have great plans for the future, but we have come this far in a short span of 6 years, largely because we have stayed focused on hiring and retaining the best talent and offering our employees great opportunities for learning, skill development and growth.  Flipkart’s vision is to be the most preferred destination for ALL shoppers in India  Position: Sr Director Network Design  Location: Bangalore, India  Position Background:  The primary purpose of this position is to lead the optimization of Flipkart supply chain network. This individual will lead various supply chain and logistics optimization opportunities to: 1) support the scale of Flipkart rapid growth, 2) reduce Flipkart’s overall SC costs, and 3) improve overall delivery performance to customers through network efficiencies.  Leading and managing an organization in preparation of high level and detailed network design and expansion plans. Developing and maintaining the future architecture roadmap for the network based on service development and demand to support existing and evolving service mix to Flipkart customers. He will also continually look to tighter integration of legacy infrastructure identify network optimization areas and lead the related design efforts. Additionally, the Sr Director of Network Design will lead the enhancement and consolidation of network infrastructure driving improvement in performance, scalability, reliability, cost reduction while supporting present as well as future services.  Responsibilities:  - The qualified candidate must be able to multi task and work under a demanding, fast paced environment working with internal and external department heads. Utilize project management skills on a daily basis with the ability to execute strategic planning across whole of India network. These key result areas include; Establishing business requirements, frame prototypes, test environments, measure improvements and provide “lessons learned” project summary.   - Drive efficiencies, work among the diverse work force and would be responsible for prioritizing and reporting gaps which could have risk and financial impact to the organization. Be able to work across customer fulfilment work streams to constantly improve work flows and enterprise solutions. Present Performance Reviews and lead investigations of potential non-compliance matters, research and reconcile issues pertaining to customer fulfilment.   Key Competencies:  A. Driving Performance & profitability  - Communicating Vision & Purpose - Communicates a compelling & inspired vision of what needs to be achieved for the business to realise its mission and goals. Gains commitment from all involved in delivering their specific part  - Result focus - Sets realistic and stretching performance expectations for self and others. Regularly reviews progress and acts to ensure optimal results for the business.  B. Business Focus and Understanding  - Business acumen - Understands the business and business environment and uses this knowledge to leverage results for the Company   - Customer focus - Is dedicated to meeting the expectations and requirements of both internal & external customers. Can successfully address unrealistic customer expectations and achieve an acceptable compromise. Sets and communicates clear standards relating to customer service.  C. Succeeding through People  - Managing Innovation - Inspires others to challenge business thinking, conventional views and practices. Promotes and supports an environment where innovative ideas can be developed and turned into benefits for the business.  - Managing Development - Promotes and supports a learning environment where all employees work on focused development plans that align with the Company’s immediate and longer term needs whilst incorporating personal development aspirations.   D. Personal Effectiveness  - Judgement and Decision making – Is objective and uses sound judgement across all business situations. Always acts in the company’s overall best interests.  - Influence and Impact - Plans ahead and gains commitment to ideas / changes through building support and by effectively communicating the potential impacts and benefits.  Core competencies:  - Leadership: Strategic and a though leader. Is able to influence both internal and external teams to deliver on strategic and growth projects  - Design and deliver supply chain design solutions using leading supply chain network optimization software and a host of innovative solutions.  - Creation and optimization of the future state design of Flipkart’s supply chain network.  - Development and analysis of all existing and proposed network models.  - Creation of network performance metrics (Inventory, velocity, cost, risk, agility and flexibility).  - Development of a robust financial model to be used to justify future network changes.  - Leadership of a continuous improvement culture within network design.  - Financial analysis and tracking of impact of each network strategy and initiative.  - Understand key performance levers (on:time delivery, cost, feasibility, etc.) and seek solutions to improve these metrics.  - Define and carry out project plans; Participate in development of modeling approaches in partnership with an experienced solution architects.  - Identify and raise issues that impact project quality, scope, timing, or cost.  - Provide structured and creative analysis to identify performance improvement opportunities and effectively communicate findings.  - Review and validate data, build and validate models, run scenarios, and prepare final presentations.  - Fully document modeling approach, data sources and transformations, assumptions, and constraints.  - Identify systems and processes to improve the ability of extracting data form various sources to support network modeling exercises.  - Optimize Material management across the entire network   - Inventory Planning and Control  Desired Skills and Experience:  - Strong organization, problem solving and communication skills as well as team leadership skills are necessary. Proactive, critical thinking and follow up organization skills are necessary. The ideal candidate will have the ability to multi task and interact with internal and external customers.   - New products / services tested and deployed, and acceptance in various markets. Network capability enhancements, consolidation of POPs/equipment etc. Network expansion and coverage (POPs, Bandwidth, Partners)  - Accuracy, timeliness and quality of designs, proposals, documentation, project implementations and Reporting Design reviews and design standardization, Network audit with Ops, Cost optimized designs and handling network vulnerability programs.  Educational Qualification:  Engineering Graduate preferably with an MBA from Tier 1 institutes in India/Abroad with 10 Years of Total Experience .  Min 5 to 7 years Experience in Supply Chain Management Consulting (Optimization ,Design, Planning ) at Boston Consulting Group, Mckinsey, Bain, A T Kearny, SDG and other top tier consulting firms.   Only candidates with experience (current or previous) with above organisations should apply.

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Flipkart - Sr Director - Supply Chain Network Design   

Flipkart - Sr Director - Supply Chain Network Design    ,Job Description for Flipkart - Sr Director - Supply Chain Network Design    in Flipkart.com in  Bangalore for (10-14) years of experience. Apply Now!

Job Description for Flipkart - Sr Director - Supply Chain Network Design    in Flipkart.com in  Bangalore for (10-14) years of experience. Apply Now!