Swiggy Hiring for Instock Manager at Bengaluru, Karnataka, India Full Time

Swiggy Mall, Swiggy’s latest offering is “The Ultimate destination for Online Shopping, delivered in minutes and not in days!”. It brings the world of home & family shopping to the consumers with the speed of quick commerce, and takes away the pain of waiting!

Job Description

• The Instock Manager will be responsible for driving inventory decisions and key supply chain initiatives for Swiggy Mall fast-growing business. He or she will be responsible for developing and executing best practices in managing inventory to maximize sales and inventory turns at optimal costs. 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 and increasing inventory efficiency while controlling wastage.

Key Responsibilities

• Demand Planning: Determining the order quantities by taking into account forecasts, historical trends and inventory targets
• Inventory availability: Maximize availability of assortment fulfilled via warehouse.
• Inventory Management: Manage warehouse inventory based on SKU level stock norms and warehouse capacity constraints. 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 modeling 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 partners
• Drive metrics to improve efficiency including inventory replenishment, managing overstock inventory, and operational processes
• Maintain vendor relationships and work on vendor performance improvement through daily communication, training sessions, 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
• Be an Automation Champion.

Desired Skills

• 2+ years of experience and proven track record of managing and executing large projects from start to finish, including project management, data gathering and modelling, problem solving, and communicating recommendations
• Professional experience in operations, inventory planning, demand forecasting, and/or product life cycles
• Possesses strong analytical and numerical skills with strong experience of Excel, including Macros, V-Lookups,Pivot Tables.
• Knowledge of SQL and macros will be an added advantage.
• Experience working with high performing teams
• Good organizational skills including prioritizing, scheduling, time management, and meeting deadlines.
• The ideal candidate will be a self-starter with a high level of flexibility and commitment
• The position requires an individual who can work autonomously in a demanding and often ambiguous environment, with strong attention to detail and effective prioritization.