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You will translate forecasted demand and store requirements into shift-level manpower plans that maximize utilization and minimize Cost Per Order (CPO), ensuring the right headcount is available for each shift. You will also monitor planning accuracy, investigate the root causes of deviations, and track daily staffing shortages across stores.\nThis role sits within the Manpower Planning team and reports to the Planning Manager. You will work with Operations Fulfilment, Store Management, Operations Performance, and Ground Operations. The role is office-based, with regular visits to dark stores across the network.\nResponsibilities\nBuild manpower capacity plans by store, city, day, and shift. Convert order forecasts into headcount requirements using productivity standards and workload assumptions, and update plans when demand or store conditions change.\nCreate shift schedules that maximize manpower utilization and minimize CPO. Account for labor regulations, contract hours, rest periods, staff availability, skills, third-party logistics (3PL) allocations, and store capacity.\nFollow up with the Operations Fulfilment team to confirm that shifts are uploaded and the planned headcount is deployed. Resolve gaps and escalate blockers to the Planning Manager.\nCompare forecasted and actual demand, as well as planned and actual staffing, by store and shift. Identify root causes, implement corrective actions, and report planning accuracy KPIs to the Planning Manager.\nMonitor daily staffing shortages by store. Flag their impact and recovery options to the Fulfilment team and Store Management, and publish the daily shortage report.\nMaintain planning models, trackers, and dashboards. Prepare weekly planning reports and recommendations for the Planning Manager.\nRequirements\n2+ years of experience in workforce planning, operations planning, or capacity planning in quick commerce, retail, or logistics.\nExperience converting demand forecasts into staffing requirements and shift plans.\nExperience with shift scheduling and labor optimization under multiple constraints.\nStrong analytical skills and experience with root cause analysis.\nAdvanced Excel skills.\nUnderstanding of CPO drivers and labor cost structures.\nAbility to coordinate with fulfilment and store teams to implement staffing plans.\nBachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering, Operations Management, Statistics, Business Administration, or a related field.","description_format":"text","description_chars":2581,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Delivery","Online Groceries"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-11-09T21:27:10Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":86,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.86,"p_room":1,"age_days":0,"expected_fill_days":32,"reasons":["conf:3","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-11-10T01:11:26Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/ninja-planning-specialist","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/ninja-planning-specialist.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-10T01:11:26Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":2628,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-11T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":669198},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=669198"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fninja-planning-specialist"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":2,"usd":0.2},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fninja-planning-specialist"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fninja-planning-specialist"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/ninja-planning-specialist\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fninja-planning-specialist"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":3985362}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"ananinja.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":3985362},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. 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