Supply Chain Leader, 7-12 years exp, Bengaluru/Bangalore

Education:

UG - Any Graduate PG - MBA/PGDM

Role:

Purchase/Vendor Development Mgr

Functional Area:

Purchase, Logistics, Supply Chain

Areas of responsibility include:

VENDOR MANAGEMENT

- Work with vendors to reduce order defects, and ensure a reliable and efficient flow of goods to our fulfillment centers

- Manage order placement and order tracking to optimize on-time shipping, fill rate, and lead time, particularly focusing on meeting/exceeding customer expectations.

INVENTORY & SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT

- Manage & develop inventory forecasts and open-to-buy budgets

- Manage inventory health by ensuring efficient inventory flows (including the forecasting, purchasing, and return of products). Involves determining and executing exit strategies for unproductive inventory, and analyzing inventory position.

- Partner with buyers in driving sales and profitability growth for the business.

PROJECT MANAGEMENT

- Work with various internal teams to help drive tools and process improvements that affect purchasing and vendor management workflows

- Work with supply chain to optimize space utilization

- Work with cross functional IT teams to further automate key processes

- Passionately advocate for the customer and category

- Own & drive the technical roadmap for planning management metrics

- Architect and build the team

Keywords: Vendor Management, Inventory & Supply Chain Management, Project Management, Planning Management

Qualification: The person should be from top engineering and MBA institute (IIT and IIM/ISB preferably) with stellar work experience

A leading global ecommerce business

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