Udaan - Instock Manager - Staples

Job Purpose :

- 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

- Manager, Instock Managers are responsible for attracting talent and making the right hiring decision, setting goals and resource planning for the team

- Create mechanisms to help onboard new talent to organization by continuously building network of talent inside and outside of company.

- Effectively coach and give feedback to direct reports to help develop talent and support career development

- Set and balance goals across team to optimize performance against department goals and employee development

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

- 2+ years of team handling experience

- 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