Head of IBP, Forecasting and Inventory

Lingarogroup; India; On-site; INR 350,000 - 700,000; Full time

Job summary

Lingarogroup is seeking a senior Head of IBP, Forecasting and Inventory to lead the supply chain analytics practice. You will own domain development, deliver data-driven planning, forecasting, inventory optimization, and procurement analytics, and mentor consultants across client engagements.

You will translate business challenges into analytics and AI-enabled solutions, collaborate with data and delivery teams, and help drive adoption and measurable business outcomes at scale.

Qualifications

• Around 15 years of professional experience in supply chain, consulting, and data analytics.
• Hands-on expertise in planning, forecasting, inventory management, and procurement.
• Experience with dashboards, forecasting models, optimization tools, or decision-support solutions.
• Experience leading client-facing work and mentoring junior team members.
• Strong communication and ability to translate business requirements to analytics.

Responsibilities

• Develop Supply Chain Analytics offerings focused on business planning and procurement analytics.
• Shape solution areas, reusable assets, and accelerators like demand forecasts and dashboards.
• Contribute to domain roadmaps aligned with practice priorities and partner strategy.
• Guide client conversations, RFIs/RFPs, and solution design activities.
• Lead delivery with cross-functional teams to ensure measurable business value.

Skills

Planning

Forecasting

Inventory management

Procurement

Analytics

Team leadership

Client advisory

Tools

Power BI

Tableau

Azure

AWS

GCP

Databricks

Snowflake

Kinaxis

o9

Job description

Head of IBP, Forecasting and Inventory

About the role

We are looking for an experienced Supply Chain Manager with strong expertise in integrated business planning (supply and demand planning, forecasting, inventory management) and procurement in supply chain data, analytics and AI. In this role, you will help develop and grow a dedicated part of our Supply Chain Analytics practice, with a focus on translating business challenges into tangible, data-driven solutions.

You will act as a subject matter expert and manager for selected supply chain domains, supporting client advisory, pre-sales, solution design, development, and delivery. The ideal candidate combines mastery of data, analytics, AI, and modern data platforms hands for mentioned supply chain domains, as well as experience coordinating teams, workstreams, or small groups of consultants.

This is a role for someone who is ready to take ownership of a defined area within the practice, and contribute to building repeatable, high-value solutions for clients.

What you’ll do

1) Domain & Practice Development

• Support the development of our Supply Chain Analytics offering, with a focus on business planning, forecasting, inventory optimization, demand planning, and procurement-related analytics.
• Help shape selected solution areas, reusable assets, and accelerators, such as demand forecasting models, inventory dashboards, planning insights, or supply chain performance monitoring tools.
• Contribute to the roadmap for your domain area, aligned with broader practice priorities, go-to-market direction, and partner strategy.
• Identify opportunities to improve or extend our existing offerings based on market trends, client needs, and lessons learned from delivery.

2) Client Advisory, Pre-Sales & Solutioning

• Participate in client conversations, discovery workshops, and business needs assessments, especially around planning, forecasting, inventory, and procurement.
• Translate client challenges into analytics use cases, solution concepts, and practical implementation approaches.
• Participate in proposals creations, RFIs, RFPs, scoping, estimations, and solution design activities.
• Work closely with data, AI, cloud, and delivery teams to shape solution blueprints that connect business value, analytics design, implementation, and adoption.

3) Delivery Excellence & Value Realization

• Act as a subject matter expert during solution development and delivery, providing guidance on supply chain processes, planning logic, inventory metrics, and business adoption.
• Support project teams in designing solutions that are practical, scalable, and relevant for planners, supply chain managers, and operational stakeholders.
• Help ensure that delivered solutions are adopted by users and connected to measurable business outcomes.
• Capture learnings from delivered projects and client feedback to improve future solution design and reusable assets.

4) People & Capability Building

• Manage, mentor, or coordinate consultants and specialists working within your domain area or project stream.
• Share knowledge and best practices related to supply chain planning, forecasting, inventory optimization, and analytics.
• Contribute to internal playbooks, use-case libraries, reference materials, and training activities.
• Foster collaboration across consulting, data, AI, and delivery teams.

5) Partnerships & Ecosystem

• Support the development of joint offerings and field plays with technology partners, such as cloud platforms, data platforms, and supply chain technology providers.
• Contribute to thought leadership activities, such as webinars, client materials, internal knowledge-sharing sessions, or articles.
• Stay up to date with relevant trends in supply chain analytics, planning technology, AI-enabled forecasting, and inventory optimization.

Required qualifications

• Around 15 years of professional experience in supply chain, consulting, and data analytics.
• Strong hands‑on expertise in at least one of the following domains:
  planning, forecasting, inventory management, and procurement.
• Experience working with data and analytics solutions for supply chain, ideally including dashboards, forecasting models, optimization tools, or decision‑support solutions.
• Practical understanding of key supply chain processes and metrics, such as forecast accuracy, bias, service level, inventory turns, stock availability, safety stock, and planning efficiency.
• Experience supporting or leading client‑facing work, such as discovery workshops, solution design, business case development, pre‑sales, or consulting delivery.
• Experience managing people, leading a project stream, coordinating consultants, or mentoring junior team members.
• Ability to work with technical teams and translate business requirements into analytics, data, or AI‑enabled solution concepts.
• Good understanding of how modern BI, cloud, data, and analytics tools can support planning, forecasting, and inventory‑related business decisions.
• Strong communication and storytelling skills, with the ability to explain complex supply chain and analytics topics to business and technical audiences.
• Experience working in global or matrixed environments.

Nice to have

• Experience in industries such as CPG, retail, manufacturing, pharma, healthcare, or industrial goods.
• Familiarity with platforms and tools such as Power BI, Tableau, Azure, AWS, GCP, Databricks, Snowflake, and supply chain systems (e.g. o9, Blue Yonder, and Kinaxis).
• Exposure to machine learning, statistical forecasting, optimization, or AI‑enabled planning solutions.
• Experience contributing to reusable consulting assets, accelerators, or internal capability‑building initiatives.