Job description
Job Title: Buying Planning & Merchandise Lead
Location: Gurugram, India
About Lenskart Lenskart is a tech-led, omni-channel eyewear company with a growing footprint across India and international markets. We operate an integrated value chain across design, manufacturing, retail, and e-commerce.
Role Overview The Buying Planning & Merchandise Lead will own the flow of merchandise from vendor to warehouse across all categories and regions. The role is anchored in demand forecasting, OTB, vendor capacity planning, and lead-time reduction — ensuring the right quantity of the right product reaches the right warehouse at the right time, at the right cost.
Key Responsibilities
Demand Forecasting
Own global demand forecasting across categories, channels, and regions.
Drive forecast accuracy through structured S&OP; cycles, sell-through analysis, and seasonality modelling.
Translate top-down financial plans and bottom-up category plans into a single, executable demand view.

OTB & Buying Planning
Own the Open-to-Buy (OTB) process — building, tracking,



and re-forecasting through the season.
Manage inflow planning, phasing, and depth-vs-breadth decisions in line with sales, stock, and margin targets.
Partner with the buying and category teams to convert assortment plans into actionable buy quantities.

Vendor Capacity Planning
Lead capacity planning with the vendor base — aligning monthly and weekly production capacity with the demand plan.
Work with sourcing and manufacturing partners to lock capacity ahead of peak periods and manage flex during demand swings.
Build visibility into vendor performance on capacity, on-time delivery, and fill rates.

Lead-Time Reduction & Inflow
Drive reduction of lead times across the vendor-to-warehouse cycle through better planning rhythm, order release discipline, and vendor collaboration.
Improve PO-to-receipt timelines, in-transit visibility, and warehouse inbound predictability.
Work with logistics a

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