Overview
As Deputy Director – Demand Planning, you will own the platform-wide demand number — the unconstrained view of what customers will buy across all categories, events and channels — which drives buying, inventory investment, network capacity and financial commitment. You will chair the consensus forecasting forum, own the forecast accuracy charter, and set the analytics and automation roadmap for the function. Success in the role is visible in the category P&L;: higher
availability at lower inventory, fewer stockouts on winners and lower markdown exposure on misses.
Responsibilities:
1. Demand Ownership: Own the platform-wide demand forecast across all categories, at the granularity each decision needs — category × month for OTB and financial planning, style/SKU × week for buying and replenishment — keeping unconstrained demand separate from the supply-constrained plan.
2. Consensus & S&OP;: Design and chair the monthly demand review and consensus forum,
from data cleanse and statistical baseline through commercial overlay to one agreed number for supply; arbitrate between Category, Marketing, Biz Fin, Supply Chain and CDM where views diverge.
3. Forecast Accuracy: Own the accuracy charter — WMAPE at the decision lag, bias tracked by input source, and Forecast Value Added measured at every touch — enforcing reason-coded overrides and feeding post-cycle error decomposition into the next cycle.
4. Analytics & Automation: Own the demand planning analytics and technology roadmap with Data Science and Product; sponsor and pressure-test statistical and ML models rather than build them, and drive the shift from spreadsheets to a governed planning system.
5. Demand Sensing & Events: Build the in-season sensing loop on live signals — traffic, search, sell-through, returns, price, visibility — and own event and campaign demand planning end to end, including uplift, cannibalisation and read-and-react checkpoints.
6. Current Launch Forecast
📌 Deputy Director (Bengaluru)
🏢 Myntra
📍 Bengaluru
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