In-stock Manager

ISMs Role and Responsibilities

• Complete Understanding of end-to-end supply chain and complex modelling of workflows for Category
• Provide specific cost reduction and waste removal opportunities within and across categories and external support teams
• Identify and articulate strategic importance of metrics as a basis for managing trade-offs, improving the customer experience and making decisions with internal and external stakeholders
• To create long-term category solutions that automate or simplify category processes
• Identify opportunities to enhance relationships with key or strategic vendors
• Will be in involved in Negotiation of operational changes with vendors in partnership with Vendor Manager to drive supply chain improvements
• Work closely with vendor leadership and/or operations leaders on strategies to reduce cost, lead time, and waste across the end-to-end supply chain
• Deliver maximum product availability in the category ensuing healthy inventory level and optimal supply chain set-up
• Drive system/process improvements working with technical teams, vendor operations, and inventory management.
• Prepare and analyse financial metrics to improve efficiency of our inventory position
• Be solution-oriented & integrate strong and clear data analysis and business rationale into sound decision making and problem solving
• In stock Managers are responsible for knowledge management, development of self and others, and recruiting

As such, we expect in-stock managers to do the following on regular basis 1. Support vendors on operational issues to ensure customer inputs are not impacted these could be around appointment and unloading issues 2. Ensuring complete adoption of tools to ensure the right customer inputs are met 3. Conducting weekly and monthly review of inventory health and identifying opportunities to improve upon the same 4. Working with vendors to reduce lead times and increase fill rates on an ongoing basis 5. Critically evaluate all deal/opportunity buys

Education PG: From within Top 20 B Schools