Vedaoils
Website:
vedaoils.com
Job details:
We manufacture natural personal care products — cold pressing, filling and batch testing in our own facility in Gurugram — and sell them on Amazon across India, the US, UAE, UK and Germany, plus our own D2C stores.
We are looking for one person to own global FBA inventory end to end.
The problem you'd be solving
Right now our inventory decisions are made reactively. We find out a SKU is running short when it runs short. We discover excess when the storage fee lands. Our stock sits unevenly across fulfilment centres, so a customer in Bangalore sees a slower delivery promise than a customer in Delhi on the same product — and that costs us the sale before advertising ever gets involved.
Across five marketplaces, four of them requiring international shipping lead times, this is a real planning problem. It needs someone who will build a system rather than fight fires.
What you'd own
- Demand forecasting by SKU by marketplace, and the replenishment plan that follows from it
- The deliberate trade-off between stockout risk and excess holding cost — set per SKU, with a stated service-level target, not a guess
- FBA inbound planning, shipment creation, and inventory placement across fulfilment centres so delivery promise is competitive in every region we sell in
- International shipment planning for US, UK, UAE and Germany, working backwards from lead times to production dates
- Inventory Performance Index, storage fees, aged inventory, and removal decisions
- Coordination with our purchase team and our factory: converting the sales forecast into a production plan far enough ahead that shipments leave on time
- The weekly inventory report the leadership team runs on — stock cover in weeks, at-risk SKUs, excess, and what you're doing about each
What we're looking for
- 3+ years in inventory planning, demand planning, or supply chain — Amazon FBA experience is a strong advantage but we will consider strong planners from other e-commerce, retail, FMCG or manufacturing backgrounds
- Genuinely advanced Excel or Google Sheets. Not "proficient." You should be comfortable building a forecasting model from scratch, and be able to explain why you chose the approach you did. SQL, Python or Power BI are a plus, not a requirement
- A degree in engineering, statistics, mathematics, operations or a similar quantitative discipline — or a track record that clearly demonstrates the same reasoning ability
- Comfortable talking to a factory floor as well as to a spreadsheet. A large part of this job is getting production to happen on time, and that is a people problem as much as a planning one
- Based in or willing to relocate to Gurugram. This role is on-site — you need to be able to walk into the factory
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