Meesho - Senior Manager - Planning - Farmiso

About Meesho:

Meesho is building a disruptive distribution channel via social selling on WhatsApp, Facebook, and other social channels. Meesho has so far enabled more than 50 thousand suppliers and 7 million entrepreneurs to start and grow their online business without any investment, providing tools around sourcing, logistics and payments. These entrepreneurs are small retailers, housewives, students, retired citizens, and many other aspiring entrepreneurs across India.

Meesho is Series D funded with a new investment round led by South African company Prosus (Naspers Ventures) along with participation from Facebook and existing investors such as Elevation (SAIF), Sequoia, Shunwei Capital, RPS and Venture Highway. Meesho is headquartered in Bengaluru, India and was one of the three Indian companies to be selected for Y Combinator in 2016. It was also a part of the first batch of Google Launchpad - Solve for India programme

About Farmiso:

Grocery has the biggest share of the overall retail spend in India and is projected to be a $800B market in 2024, of which the majority contribution comes from non-metro cities. Grocery market in Metro and Tier 1 has become crowded with a lot of players trying to solve the supply chain but the higher cost of logistics restricts these players to disrupt the lower tiers.

At Farmiso, we are building the most cost-effective distribution channel using micro entrepreneurs to disrupt the grocery market in lower tier cities of India. We are onto the journey of creating a hyperlocal farmer marketplace for fresh food and vegetables and solve the intermediate inefficiencies in the distribution system. Farmiso is an early stage mini start-up within Meesho with a completely different supply chain and modus operandi. We are a bunch of high energy enthusiasts working towards creating something cool and something big.

Job Brief:

We are looking to onboard the Head of Planning, who will take end to end ownership of designing and implementing operational activity and ensure that the key business metrics around serviceability and P&L are met. The key objectives of this role will to :

1) Own end to end planning activities for Framiso business, responsible directly for Forecasting accuracy.

2) Planning requirement - With adequate resources in team, work with various central and category . Responsible for forecasting, Merchandising, Inventory Planning, Demand/Capacity Planning.

3) Operations requirement - Build and drive operational efficiency, drive own team to work with supply chain design and operations team for bringing efficiencies order management, DOH, inventory profile, vendor wise replenishment, fill-rates, delivery schedule adherence.

4) Build on activities in nascent stage, to be equipped to get deep into key problems in above and related areas and solve them for scale and sustainably.

5) The role will involve a mix of product & process-driven problem solving and would need the individual to focus on providing sustainable solutions.

6) Developing and implementing new processes to increase capacity utilization or improve efficiency of current operations.

Potential Backgrounds:

1) 3+ years of consulting experience and 2+ years of experience in a high growth opp based start ups.

2) 5+ years of consulting & operations experience.