Inventory Transformation Leader
On-siteGurugram, Haryana, India
Job Summary
Lead enterprise-level inventory transformation by reducing Days on Hand, growing inventory turns, and cutting ageing and markdowns through category-level guardrails. Set budgets and open-to-buy envelopes with Merchandising and Finance to arbitrate trade-offs between assortment, availability, and margin. Drive speed-to-shelf improvements across India manufacturing, the China JV, and third-party sourcing while establishing fill-rate guardrails and improved forecast accuracy. Release working capital by evaluating every decision on P&L and cash impact, leading monthly IBP reviews to provide a fact-based view of demand, supply, and capacity. Partner with Finance to optimize cash flow and influence sourcing and manufacturing without owning them.
Required Qualifications
- 10–15 years of experience in inventory, merchandise or supply planning, including senior/leadership stints owning enterprise-level outcomes
- Significant experience in inventory, merchandise or supply planning, IBP, or inventory transformation, with clear ownership of outcomes like DOH, turns, working capital or fill rate
- Comfortable with high SKU complexity, multiple channels and assortment lifecycle — from fast fashion, omnichannel retail, quick commerce, consumer electronics or strong-IBP FMCG backgrounds
- Strong grasp of OTB, budgeting, allocation, replenishment, forecasting and ageing, and a track record of influencing Merchandising, Sourcing, Manufacturing and Finance without owning them
- Has personally reduced inventory while holding or improving availability, and can point to the specific decisions that drove it
Desired Qualifications
- You can state what DOH was when you started, what it became, and the specific decisions that drove the change
- You've released working capital through structural change — not one-time inventory clean-ups
- You've challenged a buying or inventory decision because the economics didn't add up, and made it stick
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