About Flipkart
At Flipkart, we're driven by our purpose of empowering every Indian's dream by delivering value through innovation in technology and commerce. With a customer base of over 350 million, product coverage of over 150 million across 80+ categories, a focus on generating direct and indirect employment and a commitment to empowering generations of entrepreneurs and MSMEs, all driven by a sustainable growth strategy – Flipkart is maximizing for customers, stakeholders, and the planet at large!
Flipkart is a part of the Walmart-owned Flipkart Group, which also includes group companies Flipkart Health+, Myntra, and Cleartrip.
Open Positions :
1
Skills Required :
problem solving, product thinking
Location :
Bangalore,Karnataka
Years Of Exp :
Above 2 Years
About the Role :
Product Managers play a pivotal role in leveraging technology for providing an exceptional customer experience.
With the analytical and problem-solving mindset, they get deeper into the function/problem space, work with stakeholders and partners to develop a wider perspective, take Outside-In view of the problems and create a vision, strategy and roadmap of how software can solve immediate needs/wants, setting the stage for the right disruptions/innovations of the future.
Once envisioned, they inspire and align stakeholders - business, operations and finance, and through engineers transform their vision into reality.
About the team :
The Planning team manages the Inventory and Supply chain planning processes at Flipkart. The category & planning business teams use the tools & data science models that we develop to reduce our inventory carrying & supply chain costs, while improving platform speed. Our key focus areas are:
- Automating & bringing intelligence to the category buying processes, making sure we buy the right things in the right quantity in the right location
- Accurately identifying customer needs at a pincode level and placing inventory as close to the customer as possible to enable D0 and D1 speed
- Optimsing the supply chain network design and planning the supply chain manpower to deliver the highest speed possible at the lowest cost
You are Responsible for :
Own the strategy and roadmap for a key product/business area.
Manage all aspects of a successful software or technology product throughout its lifecycle including product strategy development, customer insights/needs, and requirements definition
Partner with the other business leaders to define and drive substantial parts of the customer experience for the respective categories.
Defines the product acceptance testing criteria, ensures that they are met; plan for and ensures that product (and features) are appropriately used by operations and BD team
Promptly resolves issues faced during operationalization by working with different stakeholders
To succeed in this role – you should have the following :
2+ years of product management experience along with an academic background of BE Computer Science or related stream, MBA or equivalent recommended
Entrepreneurial mindset- acumen to guide our goals through roadmaps and define new product features and strategies.
Excellent communication skills to present data in most ambiguous situations and be able to operate.
Passion for technology pro-active in understanding and developing various applications, must have used technology to solve business problems.
Knowledge in developing elegant and simple feature functionalities which deliver the world-class user experience.
Why work with us?
At Flipkart, we promise to maximize what you care about the most. You get an opportunity to leave a mark on the lives of a billion Indians. You’ll be encouraged to experiment, learn and grow within various opportunities at Flipkart. You’ll work with some of the smartest people from the most diverse backgrounds. And while you do all of this, you will experience our culture of care and industry-leading policies for you and your loved ones that enable you to focus on doing your best work.
Every Flipster is a maximizer – curious, with an ownership mindset, and a willingness to take on big challenges. We are driven by our values of audacity, bias for action, customer-first, with integrity and inclusion. If you resonate with these, Flipkart is just the place for you to thrive!
We understand that your own aspiration and journey is unique. And we respect that. You choose what you want to maximize, and we provide you the platform for it. Because when you maximize, we maximize.
Know more about life and working at Flipkart here.
Being Yourself @ Flipkart
Flipkart respects and values differences. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and are committed to promoting a diverse workplace culture where every individual is valued for who they are, regardless of race, color, age, faith, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, nationality, marital status, professional pedigree, physical ability, veteran status, or any other characteristics. We firmly believe that when people with diverse identities and perspectives work together, we create the most value – for our customers, our people, and society. We are committed to fostering a culture of inclusion and belonging, where diverse teams innovate and excel every day.