Manager - Strategy & Planning - FMCG/Retail

Job purpose

Responsible for driving the Business Planning portfolio, managing complete Corporate Strategy/Business planning/commercial/MIS/Budgeting

Responsibilities:

Responsible for Financial and Business planning

- Sale & Margin Planning for Dept. & Store

- Expenses - with respective function & Operation in sync current trend

- Alignment with India Leadership on the Financials Plan

Leading the Midterm Business Strategy and Long Term organization vision

- Finalization of Roll out strategy in terms of Nos and Geography

- Conceptualization of new business model/ format and development of new business/ financial model like

Deep discount model or E-Commerce model.

- Instrumental of Proto Development - Format wise standard financial modeling with respect to geography/town class and size/ level of stores

- Driving the optimum supply chain strategy & Logistics cost.

Project Evaluation and viability analysis.

- New project evaluation & validation and recommendation for approval basis financial viability

- Legal contract evaluation & validation and negotiation with developer.

MIS Reporting & Forecasting

- Preparation of monthly financial i.e. overall P&Ls (Format and Country), DC, HO forming part of Management Reports

- Monthly Reports

- Variance sheet (2) Bi weekly forecast (3) Import Tracker (4) Project saving report (5) UPLH workings (6) Capex report and forecast (7) India overhead and Headcount report (8) Inventory by division and location (9) India month end performance review slides (10) Balance sheet and risk (11) GO impact (comparison of Actual, Plan and Adjusted plan) (12) Retail KPI {SQFT, Sales, lease and other information for SM and CHM a detailed template} (13) Home office variances report & reasoning

- 30/60/90 days rolling forecast for P&L, Balance Sheet and Capex

- 30/60/90 days rolling Sales & Margin forecast

Driving Business performance and Profitability

Identification of opportunity areas for overall improvement in alignment with Business:

- Revenue enhancement - Formulating marketing calendar, promotional initiatives

- Revenue enhancement - NOB/ ABV/ Bulk Sale

- Margin improvement - Dump Control, Focus on high margin items

- Other Income - Scrap Sale, Sub lease, Space selling

- Cost Control - Analysis and control of Headcount, Utility, Repair & Maintenance, Store supplies, and other overheads controlling to beat financial targets, suggest innovative ways