Manager - Retail Design Job in Flipkart

About the team

Retail Design team plays a pivotal role in building such capabilities within Retail by reducing variability, increasing reliability & enhancing experience to the vendor & Flipkartecosystem through the right Supply & Inventory design , Vendor Behaviour shaping design, Operations delivery.Key Metrics that the team will impact are Cost of doing business in Retail and Cost of Operations.

Retail Design aims to build and deploy the right design of processes / solutions within the Procurement to Inwarding value chain through frameworks, guardrails & cross functional org wide business programs thereby reducing variability in the supply chain / business processes.

The team will also focus on identifying operational inefficiency, driving large cost

reduction or efficiency improvement initiatives or launching new supply chain models.

Think of a better way of doing Supply & Inventory Management, this team will play a

crucial role in building the fundamentals of the philosophy.

About the role

The candidate would require a strong acumen around supply chain & inventory planning,

Good stakeholder management skills,ability to convince / negotiate with all

stakeholders via strong business cases and ability to synthesize a wide variety of

transactional problem statements into clearer business programs and build solutions for

the same.

Functional

Good understanding of supply chain processes and inventory planning

principles. (Familiarity in Ecommerce is added advantage).

Should be very analytical and be able to justify decisions and approaches with

data

Should be able to take a complex problem and break it down into smaller

digestible chunks

Behavioural

Should be able to deal with a high degree of ambiguity.

Able to function independently with limited guidance

Operational rigour & high sense of ownership

Technical

Ability to do data analysis using SQL, R or any scripting language.

What youll do:

The incumbent will have the below activities to perform as part of the role.

1. Work with Inventory Planning team, Category,Business finance, supply chain execution, transportation, Retail Operations in liasioning & executing the business programs.

2. Will deliver on necessary capabilities required for implementing a solution working with all relevant stakeholders in a timely manner.

3. Will adhere to target metrics to measure the progress of the initiative they own. They will also own writing reports that detail the progress of leadership on a frequent basis

4. Should exhibit high sense of ownership & work independently on a program

across the org.

5. Will be measured on the impact of their project. The impact could be financial /

operational benefit which needs to be estimated at the start and progress be

made against the same. They are expected to drive the entire project and deliver

the above said impact.

6. Manage operational initiatives across teams by planning, tracking & rallying other stakeholders to completion.

7. Strong inclination towards data, algorithms and modelling expected.

What youll need:

• 2-3 years of experience with MBA/Engineering background - Premier B School

• - Data oriented Problem solving

• - Any of Inventory / Supply planning / SNOP / Business analytics

• experience

• - Negotiation & Influencing large set of stakeholders

• - Strong data analytical skills (R preferred highly)