Instock Manager (3-8 yrs)

Roles and Responsibilities:

- A leading Seller on Amazon India is seeking a smart, motivated, and driven Instock Manager who will be responsible for driving inventory decisions and key supply chain initiatives for fast-growing business.

- He or she will be responsible for developing and executing best practices in managing inventory to maximize sales, margin, and inventory turns.

- He or she will have responsibility for ensuring all inventory systems and processes are meeting the needs of the business and implementing controls around these processes.

- Key areas of focus include driving improvement in inventory availability, increasing inventory efficiency and improving product sourcing decisions.

- Demand Planning: determining the order quantities by taking into account forecasts, historical trends and inventory targets.

- Manage inventory availability and inventory health including improved in-stock, turns, vendor operational improvement (efficiency, fill rates, lead time) and forecasting.

- Integrate key Instock metrics with broader business metrics to deliver optimal customer experience.

- Have a complete understanding of end-to-end supply chain for Multiple Vendors and complex modelling of workflows.

- Act as key point of contact between Retail, supply chain, and vendors.

- Responsible for defining Operational strategy & manage day-to-day operational relationships with vendors and distributors partners, including product lifecycle management, expanding selection and optimize sourcing recommendations / decisions.

- Drive metrics to improve efficiency including inventory replenishment, managing overstock inventory, and operational processes.

- Maintain vendor relationship and work on vendor performance improvement through daily communication, training session, tracking purchase orders, investigating late deliveries, resolving order rejections, working with vendors on PO automation, etc.

- Demonstrate a deep understanding of Inventory Management tools and an ability to work with technical teams to advocate for tool enhancements.

Required arsenal:

- Professional experience in operations, inventory planning, demand forecasting, and/or product life cycle.

- Experience in handling inventory and instock management