Location - Jakkur (Yehalanka) - 5 days Work from Office

The Senior Manager – Buying & Merchandising will be responsible for leading the end-to-end Planning, Buying and Merchandising function for Ample's Non-Tech portfolio across Retail Exclusive Brand Outlets (EBOs) and E-commerce channels.

The role is accountable for driving topline growth, profitability and inventory efficiency through robust planning, data-driven decision making and best-in-class merchandising practices. A key expectation from this role is to leverage technology, analytics and automation to build scalable planning and merchandising processes that improve speed, accuracy and business performance.

Key Responsibility :

1. Merchandise Planning & Forecasting
• Develop annual, seasonal and monthly merchandise plans aligned to business objectives.
• Drive demand forecasting at category, channel and store levels using historical trends, market
• intelligence and business insights.
• Build and monitor financial plans covering sales, inventory, intake, sell-through and margin.




• Continuously review forecast accuracy and implement corrective actions.

2. Buying & Open-to-Buy (OTB) Management
• Own the Open-to-Buy (OTB) process across all brands and channels.
• Ensure optimum inventory investments while maintaining healthy stock availability.
• Work closely with brand principals and respective teams on purchase planning and order
• management.
• Balance current launches, continuity products and seasonal inventory.

3. Assortment Planning & Merchandising
• Define channel-wise, store-wise and cluster-wise assortments.
• Drive localized assortment strategies based on customer demographics, sales trends and store
• performance.
• Ensure optimal width and depth of assortment across categories.
• Review assortment productivity and recommend portfolio rationalization wherever required.

4. Inventory & Merchandising Operations
• Lead replenishment planning across retail and e-commerce channels.
• Drive inventory opt

📌 Buying and Merchandising (Bengaluru)
🏢 Ample
📍 Bengaluru