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With a strong digital-first approach, a growing retail footprint, marketplace presence, corporate gifting, and landscaping & maintenance services, Ugaoo serves a diverse customer base across the country.\nOur portfolio spans live plants, seeds, gardening inputs, planters, and green lifestyle products. Given the perishable nature of a significant part of our inventory and the complexity of managing a high-SKU product portfolio, our supply chain plays a critical role in delivering a seamless customer experience. Backed by a technology-driven and customer-centric approach, Ugaoo operates through multiple fulfillment hubs, managing a high-velocity supply chain that includes procurement, inventory planning, warehousing, last-mile delivery, and reverse logistics.\nAs we continue to scale, we are building a future-ready, highly efficient, and tech-enabled supply chain ecosystem powered by innovation, operational excellence, and passionate people who are excited to redefine the gardening experience in India.\nRole Summary\nWe are looking for a highly analytical and execution-focused Demand & Supply Planning Manager to drive end-to-end demand forecasting, supply planning, inventory optimization, and replenishment across all sales channels. The ideal candidate should have strong experience with fast-moving and perishable products.\nThe role requires balancing customer demand with supply constraints while ensuring high product availability, optimum inventory, and minimal wastage across our omnichannel business.\nLocation: Baner & Talegaon MIDC\nFormat: On-site, Monday - Saturday\nKey Responsibilities\nDemand Planning & Forecasting\nDevelop accurate demand forecasts using historical sales, seasonality, promotions, new product launches, and market trends.\nCollaborate with Sales, Marketing, Category, Procurement, and Finance teams to build consensus forecasts.\nMonitor forecast accuracy and continuously improve forecasting models.\nAnalyze demand fluctuations and proactively recommend corrective actions.\n\nSupply Planning\nDevelop supply plans aligned with demand forecasts, production capacities, procurement timelines, and vendor capabilities.\nEnsure timely replenishment across warehouses, retail stores, and quick commerce dark stores.\nBalance inventory levels while minimizing stock-outs, excess inventory, and product expiry.\nPlan inventory movement across hubs based on demand patterns.\n\nInventory Management\nDrive inventory optimization across multiple product categories.\nMonitor inventory ageing, slow-moving inventory, and shelf-life risks.\nRecommend liquidation or promotional plans to reduce inventory losses.\nMaintain target inventory norms across all channels.\n\nSales & Operations Planning (S&OP)\nParticipate in monthly S&OP meetings and prepare planning dashboards.\nHighlight risks related to demand, supply, procurement, or capacity.\nWork closely with cross-functional teams to resolve supply gaps.\n\nCross-functional Collaboration\nCoordinate with Procurement for raw material and finished goods availability.\nPartner with Operations and Warehouse teams to ensure seamless inventory flow.\nWork with Category and Commercial teams during product launches, seasonal campaigns, and promotional events\n\nRequirements\nBachelor's degree in Engineering, Supply Chain, Operations, Statistics, or related discipline. MBA/PGDM in Supply Chain or Operations preferred.\n7-8 years of experience in Demand Planning, Supply Planning, or Supply Chain Planning.\nMandatory experience in FMCG companies handling fast-moving and perishable products such as food, beverages, dairy, fresh produce, or similar categories.\nExperience in omnichannel planning (D2C, Retail, E-commerce, Quick Commerce) will be preferred.\nExposure to large SKU portfolios is highly desirable.\n\nGood to Have:\nExposure to AI/ML-based demand forecasting tools.\nExperience with planning softwares\nSQL knowledge for data analysis.\nExperience managing seasonal businesses and promotional demand spikes.\n\nWhy Join Ugaoo?\nBe part of one of India's fastest-growing D2C lifestyle brands.\nDrive planning and forecasting across retail, e-commerce, marketplaces, and quick commerce channels.\nCollaborate with cross-functional teams to optimize inventory, improve product availability, and enhance customer experience.\nPlay a key role in building scalable planning processes and driving measurable business impact.","description_format":"text","description_chars":4580,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":7,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Marketplaces","Telemedicine & Virtual Care","Gifts, Party Supplies & Souvenirs","Seeds"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-11-07T12:31:38Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":14,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.492,"p_room":0.28,"age_days":118,"expected_fill_days":34,"reasons":["conf:0","win:tail","crowd:"],"computed_at":"2026-11-11T05:49:22Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":16149,"is_top_pay":false},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/ugaoo-demand-and-supply-planning-manager","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/ugaoo-demand-and-supply-planning-manager.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-11T15:57:21Z","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":29893,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-12T00:00:00Z"}},"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":2806507},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=2806507"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fugaoo-demand-and-supply-planning-manager"},{"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%2Fugaoo-demand-and-supply-planning-manager"},{"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%2Fugaoo-demand-and-supply-planning-manager"},{"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/ugaoo-demand-and-supply-planning-manager\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fugaoo-demand-and-supply-planning-manager"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":3916185}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"ugaoo.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":3916185},"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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