Senior Instock Manager - Internet/Online

We are looking for a smart, motivated, driven Sr. Instock Manager for our fast-growing business. In this role you play a significant role in driving effective inventory management, vendor relationships, operational and supply-chain excellence. 

- The Manager accomplishes this by being champion of automation, taking data driven decisions, leading continuous process improvements, driving system and process automation with key internal teams, and maintaining a deep knowledge of the product line and its customers. You will be a thought leader by influencing others to take action through scalable systems and processes, rather than just addressing issues. You own identifying and driving these improvements across the business segment.

Roles & Responsibilities:

- Complete Understanding of end-to-end supply chain and complex modeling of workflows for Category.

- Provide specific cost reduction and waste removal opportunities within and across categories and external support teams.

- Identify and articulate strategic importance of metrics as a basis for managing tradeoffs, improving the customer experience and making decisions with internal and external stakeholders.

- To create long-term category solutions that automate or simplify category processes

- Identify opportunities to enhance relationships with key or strategic vendors

- Will be in involved in Negotiation of operational changes with vendors in partnership with Vendor Manager to drive supply chain improvements.

- Work closely with vendor leadership and/or operations senior leaders on strategies to reduce cost, lead time, and waste across the end-to-end supply chain.

- Deliver maximum product availability in the category ensuing healthy inventory level and optimal supply chain set-up.

- Drive system/process improvements working with technical teams, vendor operations, and inventory management.

- Prepare and analyze financial metrics to improve efficiency of our inventory position

- Be solution-oriented & integrate strong and clear data analysis and business rationale into sound decision making and problem solving.

- Senior Instock Managers are responsible for knowledge management, development of self and others, and recruiting.

Job Specifications:

Education : Graduation or MBA(Preferred)

Experience Relevant:

- 5+ years of experience and proven track record of managing and executing large projects from start to finish, including project management, data gathering and modeling, problem solving, and communicating recommendations.

- Professional experience in operations, inventory planning, demand forecasting, and/or product life cycles.

- The ideal candidate will be a self-starter with a high level of flexibility and commitment

- Proven influencing abilities.

- Ability to think and react in a high-energy, fast-paced environment

- Good organizational skills including prioritizing, scheduling, time management, and meeting deadlines.

- The position requires an individual who can work autonomously in a demanding and often ambiguous environment, with strong attention to detail and effective prioritization.

Good to have - Experience with improvement techniques such as SAP etc.