Senior Manager - Business Planning - Footwear

Designation: Senior Manager.

Department: Category (Footwear).

Role/ Position: Business Planning.

Location of Joining: Delhi/NCR.

Years of Experience: 10+ Years.

Qualification Required: FDDI Post Graduate Preferably.

Business Justification for Hiring:

- With growing business & specific business channel requirements, there is a need for strengthening India footwear planning.

- Due to changing compliance / Quality requirements within footwear business, a combination of Imports & Local production is becoming critical.

- On day to day basis, there are challenges with India factory production output, there is a need to juggle the production planning to meet business requirements.

Brief Overview of the Role:

- Complete ownership of Business planning which includes Production Planning, Merchandising, Vendor management, tooling management planning along with factory capacity planning.

- The role would be to drive the efficiency and effectiveness of the factory deliverables.

- The person will need to have strong sense of the current & future production output plan.

Job Specification:

- Candidate qualified from FDDI / NIFT / production planning background.

- Experience working with Footwear divisions.

- Fluent in English communication, in both written and spoken.

- Fast learner, team player and has sense of urgency.

- Should possess Strong sense of process orientation.

- Detail oriented, follows procedures & should have Ability to multi-task in a fast-paced environment.

- Flexible work schedule: Able to work stretched hours as needed.

Job Description:

- Drive the overall business planning for footwear category PAN India.

- Understand the dynamics of each channel - Retail, MBO, Distribution & Ecom to strengthen the business.

- OTB planning & governance for the business & ensuring necessary approvals in place before placing buys.

- Defining Footwear Annual Buy plan.

- Governing agreed GM% deliverables for the business.

- Managing and planning COGS% to MRP for the season.

- For Local manufacturing, Measure & monitor factory KPIs and ensure that Vendor scorecards are maintained including OTIF and intime delivery percentage.

- Plan & drive factory production capacity planning.

- Ensuring the tooling requirement is aligned with the sales orders.

- Align the factories to have proper communication to global team & defining SOPs and industry best practices in planning & reporting.

- Prepare detailed analytics with clear action points on a continuous basis including production tracking tools to provide effective and timely visibility to Brand.

- Visits to production facilities for discussion on production planning & weekly monthly dispatches.

- Collaborate with all the factories to ensure on time deliveries, escalation of issues where required.