Associate Manager Inventory Planning & Supply Chain Excellence

Job description

**Key Responsibilities** - Own store-level and network-level inventory planning, replenishment, and stock availability - Drive improvement in availability, replenishment, inventory turns, and service-levels - Manage assortment health by tracking priority SKUs, slow movers, non-moving inventory, listing readiness, and store-wise assortment coverage. - Partner with category and demand planning teams to align inventory with campaigns, seasonality, business priorities, launches, and demand trends. - Build and maintain dashboards / reports for availability, OOS, assortment health, replenishment SLA, launch readiness, inventory ageing, and operational exceptions. - Conduct root-cause analysis for recurring stockouts, inventory mismatches, delayed replenishment, and fulfilment issues. - Drive cross-functional reviews with category, supply chain, warehouse, store operations, and business teams to ensure closure of planning and operational actions. - Lead strategic projects related to store expansion readiness, assortment optimization, and quick commerce supply chain scalability. **Key KPIs** - Availability percentage across priority SKUs, categories, and stores. - Reduction in out-of-stock instances. - Replenishment / STO SLA compliance. - Assortment health and active assortment coverage. - Inventory turns, sell-through, and ageing inventory control. - Reverse logistics and lifecycle action compliance. - Reporting accuracy, dashboard adoption, and automation impact. **Skills & Competencies** - Inventory planning, replenishment, and supply chain analytics. - Quick commerce / e-commerce / retail supply chain understanding. - Assortment planning and availability management. - Strong Excel skills; SQL preferred. - Experience with Tableau, Power BI, or similar BI tools preferred. - Strong problem-solving, RCA, and continuous improvement mindset. - Ability to manage large datasets and translate insights into business actions. - Strong stakeholder management, communication, and cross-functional execution skills. - High ownership, bias for action, and ability to operate in a fast-paced environment. **Qualifications & Experience** - Bachelors degree in Engineering, Supply Chain, Operations, Mathematics, Statistics, Business, or related field. - MBA preferred but not mandatory. Preferred experience in e-commerce, quick commerce, FMCG, retail, grocery, beauty and personal care, or high-velocity fulfilment businesses.