Flipkart Hiring For Planning Analyst at Bengaluru / Bangalore ,  Full Time

About the role
The role entails developing detailed and scientific supply chain plans for ekart operations and tracking the relevant metrics for the plan adherence . There will be 2 major responsibilities that the analyst in the role would be delivering upon a) Capacity Planning & b) Capacity management . The person would be reporting to the CL planning lead.

About the team
Planning is a central team responsible for creating business plans & forecasts to enable decision making & operational readiness. The team strives to build balanced plans to optimize superior customer experience, supply chain reliability & operating costs.
The position requires an individual to have relevant supply chain/analytical experience and expertise to enable scientific decision making and performance improvement measures.
The role involves high interaction with Flipkart products & necessitates a collaborative individual who can build robust plans, understand complex tech products, build system configurations, negotiate and influence business partners across different functions at Flipkart.

What you’ll do:
Supply Chain

• Understand key drivers of Supply Chain from demand and supply side
• Build input driven scientific plan/forecast for supply chain & monitor key supply chain metrics
• Innovate new ways of working to improve forecasts & optimize supply chain cost, reliability & speed.
• Work with large teams to bring consensus and finalize planning numbers with all functional stakeholders
• Continuously track specific resource and space requirements based on agreed plans with Supply Chain stakeholders
• Build planning configurations in tech products to ensure smooth supply chain execution
• Understand product interactions & drive business use case led improvements with product

Analytics

• Ability to analyse large data and convert into simple presentable forms
• Proficient in problem solving involving large data sets & advanced optimization
• Produce trends and charts for performance monitoring & control on daily, weekly, monthly basis
• Proficient in developing zero-touch automated solutions with self-serve capabilities
• Ability to build sustainable models around supply chain planning KPIs using agile philosophy

What you’ll need:

• Education background – Graduate (Engineering/Statistics)
• 1-3 years of relevant work experience in Analytics, Consulting, FMCG, Ecommerce, Manufacturing
• Strong analytical, problem solving, communication skills & team work
• Knowledge of supply strategies, supply planning, supply chain operations, inventory planning, demand forecasting is a plus.
• Hands-on experience with automation and capabilities in R/Python etc.