About the Role :

We are hiring for one of India's fastest-growing premium kids' essentials brands, building bold, design-led products across lunchboxes, bottles, bags and tableware — products kids love and parents trust, with every product engineered around child-first safety and design

The founding team ar
e IIM Ahmedab
ad alumni with prior experience at Amazon, Flipkart and Uber India
.

About the Role

We're looking for a
Demand Planner
who will be the forecasting brain behind our category business. In this role, you'll transform sales trends, seasonality, marketing plans, and product launches into accurate SKU-level demand forecasts that ensure we always have the right products available—without tying up cash in excess inventory.

Working closely with Category, Sourcing, Marketing, and Operations, you'll own demand forecasting, inventory planning, replenishment, and inventory health across our D2C and marketplace channels. If you're highly analytical, detail-oriented, and enjoy solving business problems using data, we'd love to hear from you.

What You'll Do





Demand Forecasting
Build and maintain accurate SKU-level demand forecasts across multiple sales channels.
Analyze historical sales, seasonality, promotions, and product launch plans.
Continuously improve forecast accuracy and reduce forecast bias.
Translate category and marketing plans into forward-looking demand forecasts.

Inventory & Replenishment Planning
Define and optimize safety stock, reorder points, and inventory norms.
Plan replenishment and provide explicit purchase recommendations to the sourcing team.
Allocate inventory efficiently across D2C and marketplace channels.
Monitor inventory health and proactively identify stock-out and overstock risks.
Drive improvements in inventory turns while minimizing excess and obsolete (E&O;) inventory.

Category Planning
Forecast demand for recent product launches and support initial buy planning.
Partner with Category, Sourcing, and Marketi

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