Planning Analyst : F&B

Licious; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Licious, a Bengaluru-based meat and seafood company, is seeking a Supply Planning professional to own planning for high growth categories. You will work with Category, Logistics, Production and Sourcing teams to balance inventory costs with catalogue availability on the Licious platform.

The role requires 1+ year in supply planning, strong data skills (Excel, R, Python) and the ability to build dashboards (Power BI/Data Studio) to drive deployment performance.

Qualifications

• 1+ year of experience in supply planning.
• Strong understanding of supply chain concepts.
• Ability to work with data spreadsheets, R, Python, and AI tools.
• Comfort presenting analysis with PPT or Data Studio/Power BI.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for supply planning of high growth categories.
• Own planning metrics and balance cost with catalogue availability on Licious platform.
• Prepare business cases for new charters to improve availability or inventory efficiency.
• Drive initiatives with stakeholders in Category, Logistics, Production and Sourcing.
• Design and implement policies to streamline tactical inventory deployment.
• Design dashboards to bring visibility and continuously improve deployment performance.
• Define scalable automation solutions for day-to-day planning processes.
• Work with tech/product teams to translate automation into long-term fixes.

Skills

Supply planning

Data analysis

Power BI

Excel

Python

Tools

R

Python

Power BI

Excel

Job description

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..

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?

• Responsible for supply planning of high growth categories
• Objective of the role is to take ownership of all planning metrics and balance the cost aspects of inventory with the customer’s expectations of catalogue availability on Licious platform. This would involve -
• Preparing business cases for new charters to improve availability or improve inventory efficiency; and aligning leadership for the same
• Implementing such charters by driving initiatives along with various stakeholders in Category, Logistics, Production and Sourcing
• Designing and executing policies, norms to streamline tactical processes of inventory deployment
• Designing and implementing the right metrics/ dashboards to bring visibility and continuously improve deployment performance
• Define scalable automation solutions to help manage day-to-day planning processes
• Work closely with tech/product teams to translate these automation solutions into long term fixes

We hope that you have...

• 1+ yrs of experience in supply planning
• Understanding of supply chain
• Ability to work with data Spreadsheets/ R/ python and AI tools for doing daily analysis, and PPT/data studio / Power BI for presentation of analysis
• Prior experience in working with large data sets and statistically interpreting it from a business point of view
• Strong ability to articulate analysis into a business story
• Bias of action and passion to bring in structural changes
• Self starter & willing to work in dynamic and ambiguous scenarios
• Strong Communication and stakeholder management of highest degree possible
• Team management and people skills - Execution focused
• Ability to work like an entrepreneur with minimum hand holding
• Customer-first approach in solving any problems; Ability to quantify the risk to customer metrics for any decision/approach