Manager - Purchase Planning & Operations

About Us

Heads Up For Tails is a one-stop pet product's brand with its paw-prints across India. We design,manufacture, and customize high quality and functional pet products to improve the quality of your pet'slife and make pet parenting delightful.

We were founded with the sole aim of making the lives of all pet companions better and on the strongbelief that pets are family. By offering products and services that make pets more comfortable, healthier,and happier, we hope to strengthen the bond between pet and parent.

With a firm belief in safety, innovation, and empathy, we create and curate a range of relevant petproducts and services. We are constantly adding to our inventory of products and services to provideparents with a holistic pet care experience and hope to become rock solid partners in each family’s petparenting journey.

We have over 1200+ employees spread across the country; with 220+ in our headquarters in Gurgaon. Wehave been awarded the ‘Brand of the Year’ Award three times (2017, 2019 and 2021), most recentlyawarded at Homburg Palace, Vienna. We have been certified as a Great Place to Work 2022 by Great Placeto Work Institute, India.

Position Summary

Manager Purchase Planning and Operations will be responsible for creating regional strategic procurement SOPs across product categories and having them executed on a day to day basis

Also, he/she will take part in implementation of the purchase calendar across warehouses based on the periodic demand forecast plan received from the planning team.

Timely sourcing, vendor relationship management and vendor contract management will be the core responsibilities of Purchase Manager He/She will report into the Head of Supply Chain with strategic oversight from the COO.

Responsibilities

• Develop, Lead and Execute purchase strategies across regions and categories.
• Track and report key functional metrics (Ex- OTIF) to improve process effectiveness and improve vendor relationships.
• Craft vendor negotiation strategies and close vendor deals with optimal terms of trade
• Partnering with all the vendors and stakeholders to ensure transparent contract management
• Perform various cost analysis with respect to inventory planning and management, What If analysis and benchmarking in purchase function.
• Determine quantity and timing of deliveries based on periodic demand forecasts and monitor levels of demand basis available inventory space across warehouses.
• Assess, manage and mitigate risks of physical inventory damage.

Minimum Qualifications, Skills and Competencies

• Proven experience as purchase manager across different businesses (including retail & e-com
• Exceptional networking & negotiation skills along with interest in changing market dynamics
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What Heads Up For Tails Can Offer You:

Heads Up For Tails is the single largest organized leader in the growing pet care industry in India, a market thats estimated to reach INR 5475 crores by 2025. With an omni-channel network of manufacturing, retail, e-commerce and distribution, Heads Up For Tails can offer you a dynamic and ambitious work environment where you can leverage your experiences and skills to solve exciting, complex problems. We offer you a culture that thrives on ownership and initiative, where people who are excited about taking the path less travelled will thrive and succeed.