Reliance Industries - Manager - Planning - Buy Side

Manager - Planning

Job Mandate : (Buy Side planning - EB Footwear & Accessories portfolio)

- This is an individual contributor role

- Conduct analysis for assigned business problems by collecting data from all internal and external sources and perform analysis to get answers to business questions.

- Maturity to handle ambiguous business scenarios and arrive at logical business solutions with limited data / uncertainties

- Help in putting together business proposal based on trends etc.

- Put together excel models for business scenario analysis

- Create business plans, aided by data modeling and analytics in the process of business planning

- Strong analytical skills and data driven approach to decision making

- Comfortable in tracking key business KPIs through automated dashboards and ad-hoc data analyses

Key Responsibilities :

- Ownership of P&L metrics for a business unit; Looking at mid to long term planning and buying directions/strategies for a particular category

- Work with cross functional teams to understand business drivers and to drive strategic goals and initiatives

- Own primary planning deliverables of Merchandise Planning, Range Planning, OTB and monthly revenue and margin planning

- Conduct market research for business benchmarking exercises

- Create business plans, aided by data modeling and analytics in the process of business planning

- Take ownership to drive automation and proactive alerts/mechanism within respective functions

- Ownership of BAU reporting and operations with respect to category

- Monitor regular compliance against key planning metrics like: Stock Cover, GM%, Ageing, Sell Thru etcJob Mandate