Supply Planning Manager

We are Licious and we are a Bengaluru based meat and seafood company founded in 2015 by Abhay Hanjura and Vivek Gupta, our founders, foodies and friends. We pride ourselves on being India’s most successful D2C food-tech brand operating in 20 cities across the country delighting over 32 lac customers with our de-licious fresh meat and seafood! Think you have what it takes to be the magic ingredient in the recipe that is Licious? Read on…

What makes the role meaty?
The supply planning manager role at Licious would be responsible for managing raw and fresh category plans and will be closely working with category, sourcing, production dispatch and product/tech teams to ensure inventory placement is as per plan & build extensive rigor & monitoring framework to ensure minimal misses.

Key Daily Asks in this Role:
Overseeing translation of demand plans into supply – inventory, sourcing & capacity plans for all nodes of the Licious Supply Chain
Efficient inventory planning which balances inventory availability along with controlling wastage & liquidation of low shelf life fresh products.
Designing the right network & inventory placement strategy to ensure the above objective is met at the lowest possible cost & best product availability.
Resource planning for all assets including Processing, Dispatch, Last Mile. This would require close coordination with operations, design to understand resource efficiencies, productivities, availability etc. and churn out plans for different time horizons
Asset Planning – To convert demand plans into infrastructure requirements in terms of space/processing infra & co-ordinate with operations teams for infra creation well in time to deliver plans.
Automation and new capabilities - Work closely with Product & Engineering teams to develop scalable planning & supply chain platform solutions encompassing sourcing, production, dispatch/replenishment planning processes
New initiatives – Helping partner functions to scale up new capabilities and programs and effectively participates in growth and profitability drives
Building in-depth understanding of the end to end supply chain of Licious and making sure planning addresses all aspects of the supply chain. Being able to look at where issues could occur and solving them proactively.
Is conversant with fundamental first principles of Inventory planning, Capacity Planning, Supply Design & evolves planning methods using tenets of all of the above
Efficient people management skills to facilitate career growth of team and drive the team towards excellence

We hope that you have...
3-4 years of experience in Supply Planning
MBA Graduate is preferred
A strong understanding of ecommerce storefront management and operations is preferred
The candidate should be detail-oriented, have extremely high ownership and be able to take direction and work well with multiple stakeholders.
Highly analytical to track and report data
Strong communication skills and high standard of written English
Strong bias for action and ability to prioritize daily tasks, basic effort and impact.
Capability to meet our technical requirements, which include MS Excel, plus the ability to learn our in-house tools quickly