Company: Clayco Cosmetics Pvt. Ltd.
Location: Lower Parel, Mumbai
Work Mode: Work From Office (WFO)
Experience: 712 Years
Industry: D2C, E-commerce, Beauty, Skincare & Cosmetics
Department: Operations & Supply Chain
Reporting To: Founder / CEO / Business Head
About Clayco
Clayco is a premium D2C beauty and skincare brand focused on delivering innovative, effective and consumer-centric skincare solutions. We operate across our own D2C website and leading e-commerce marketplaces, with a strong focus on operational excellence, customer experience and sustainable business growth.
Job Summary
We are looking for an experienced and result-oriented Senior Operations Manager to lead and manage end-to-end operations across our D2C business, including warehouse management, order fulfilment, inventory control, logistics, marketplace operations and supply chain coordination.
The candidate will be responsible for ensuring seamless day-to-day operations, improving fulfilment efficiency, optimising operational costs, maintaining inventory accuracy and building scalable processes to support business growth.
The ideal candidate should have solid experience in D2C/e-commerce operations, preferably in the beauty, skincare, cosmetics or FMCG industry.
Key Responsibilities
1. End-to-End D2C Operations
- Manage complete operational workflows across the company's D2C website and multiple e-commerce marketplaces.
- Oversee order processing, allocation, picking, packing, dispatch and delivery.
- Ensure timely and accurate order fulfilment while maintaining service-level agreements (SLAs).
- Monitor daily order volumes, pending orders, cancellations, returns and RTOs.
- Establish operational processes to support increasing business volumes and business expansion.
2. Warehouse & Inventory Management
- Manage multiple warehouse operations, including inventory movement, storage, inwarding and outwarding.
- Ensure accurate inventory management and stock reconciliation across warehouses.
- Monitor stock availability, ageing inventory, dead stock and slow-moving SKUs.
- Establish robust inventory control mechanisms to minimise stock discrepancies and losses.
- Coordinate stock transfers and replenishment across warehouses.
- Ensure FIFO/FEFO practices, batch tracking and expiry management wherever applicable.
3. Logistics & Fulfilment Management
- Manage relationships with third-party logistics (3PL) partners, courier companies and fulfilment service providers.
- Negotiate logistics rates and optimise shipping and fulfilment costs.
- Monitor delivery performance, transit timelines, courier efficiency and shipment exceptions.
- Drive improvements in RTO, NDR, failed deliveries and customer complaints.
- Ensure timely resolution of logistics-related escalations.
- Develop measurable performance standards for logistics partners.
4. Marketplace & E-commerce Operations
- Manage operational coordination across Amazon, Flipkart, Nykaa, Myntra, Blinkit, Zepto, Instamart and other relevant platforms.
- Ensure inventory availability and timely order fulfilment across all sales channels.
- Coordinate with marketplace teams for operational escalations, stock updates and order-related issues.
- Monitor marketplace fulfilment performance, cancellations, returns and SLA compliance.
- Ensure operational readiness for promotional campaigns, festive sales and high-volume sale events.
5. Supply Chain & Demand Planning
- Coordinate with procurement, sourcing, production and planning teams for stock availability.
- Prepare operational forecasts based on sales trends, historical data and business requirements.
- Ensure timely replenishment of fast-moving products and critical SKUs.
- Identify potential stock-out situations and implement preventive measures.
- Coordinate product launches, new SKU introductions and inventory allocation.
- Maintain optimum inventory levels while minimising working capital blockage.
6. Cost Control & Operational Efficiency
- Monitor and optimise warehouse, packaging, shipping, manpower and fulfilment costs.
- Identify operational bottlenecks and implement process improvements.
- Drive automation and system-based workflows to reduce manual intervention.
- Evaluate operational productivity and resource utilisation.
- Develop cost-effective operating models without compromising customer experience.
7. Team Management & Process Development
- Lead and manage warehouse, fulfilment and operations teams.
- Define team responsibilities, KRAs, KPIs and performance benchmarks.
- Establish SOPs for inventory management, order fulfilment, dispatch, returns and reconciliation.
- Conduct regular operational reviews and performance assessments.
- Build accountability and ensure timely execution across teams.
8. MIS, Reporting & Performance Monitoring
- Prepare daily, weekly and monthly operations dashboards.
- Track order fulfilment, inventory accuracy, dispatch TAT, delivery TAT, RTO, returns and logistics costs.
- Analyse operational data to identify gaps and recommend corrective actions.
- Present performance reports and operational insights to management.
- Drive continuous improvement through data-driven decision-making.
Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
1. Order Fulfilment: 98%+ order processing and dispatch within defined SLAs.
2. Inventory Accuracy: Maintain 99%+ inventory accuracy across warehouses.
3. Dispatch TAT: Ensure timely order processing and dispatch.
4. RTO Reduction: Continuously reduce return-to-origin rates.
5. Logistics Cost Optimisation: Improve shipping and fulfilment costs per order.
6. Warehouse Productivity: Improve order processing efficiency and manpower productivity.
7. Stock Availability: Minimise stock-outs of fast-moving and high-revenue SKUs.
8. Returns Management: Ensure timely processing and reconciliation of returns.
9. Marketplace SLA Compliance: Maintain platform-specific operational performance standards.
10. Process Improvement: Implement measurable operational improvements and SOPs.
Required Qualifications & Experience
- Graduate/Postgraduate in Supply Chain Management, Operations, Logistics, Business Administration or a related discipline.
- 7–12 years of experience in operations management, preferably in D2C, e-commerce, FMCG, beauty or cosmetics.
- Minimum 3–5 years of experience in managing warehouse and fulfilment operations.
- Proven experience handling multiple warehouses and high-volume order processing.
- Strong understanding of inventory management, logistics, 3PL operations and marketplace fulfilment.
- Hands-on experience with OMS, WMS, ERP and e-commerce platforms.
- Advanced Excel and MIS reporting skills; Power BI knowledge is an advantage.
Preferred Candidate Profile
- Strong operational ownership with the ability to independently manage end-to-end operations.
- Experience handling large order volumes and multiple sales channels.
- Strong vendor management, negotiation and cost-control capabilities.
- Analytical mindset with excellent problem-solving skills.
- Ability to manage teams, implement SOPs and drive operational discipline.
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced, high-growth D2C business environment.
- Strong coordination and stakeholder management skills.
Interested candidates can share their updated CV at:
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