Supply Chain Manager - D2C Consumer Health

Role Overview: This is a high-ownership role for someone with around 2 years of experience who enjoys building processes from scratch in a fast-moving startup. Key Responsibilities: - Own demand-and-supply planning: forecast requirements, convert sales plans into procurement and production plans, and maintain optimal stock cover. - Manage sourcing and procurement of raw materials, packaging, and finished goods; negotiate commercials, lead times, payment terms, and MOQs. - Develop and manage contract manufacturers, co-packers, suppliers, and logistics partners; handle onboarding, evaluation, and performance reviews. - Coordinate production schedules, batch planning, capacity planning, and timely dispatch to prevent stockouts or excess inventory. - Work with formulation, regulatory, and quality teams to ensure specifications, artwork, licences, COAs, batch records, and compliance documentation are complete before production. - Monitor inventory across warehouses, 3PL partners, and channel-specific stock; drive cycle counts, ageing analysis, shrinkage control, and reconciliation. - Plan inbound and outbound logistics, freight negotiations, dispatch timelines, and 3PL performance for D2C and marketplace orders. - Support new product launches through packaging development, sampling, pilot batches, cost estimation, and launch-ready supply plans. - Build weekly MIS dashboards covering purchase orders, inventory cover, fill rate, stockouts, ageing, wastage, landed cost, and supplier OTIF. - Identify cost-saving, working-capital, and process-improvement opportunities while protecting product quality and service levels. Candidate Profile: - Around 2 years of experience in supply chain, procurement, operations, manufacturing, or e-commerce fulfilment. - Consumer goods, FMCG, nutraceutical, wellness, pharma, or D2C experience is preferred. - Bachelor's degree in supply chain, operations, engineering, pharmacy, business, or a related field. - Working knowledge of procurement, inventory planning, vendor management, production coordination, and logistics. - Strong Excel/Google Sheets skills: pivot tables, stock calculations, reorder points, and basic MIS dashboards; ERP or inventory-tool exposure is a plus. - Strong analytical, negotiation, communication, and stakeholder-management skills. - Comfortable working directly with founders in an ambiguous, lean, execution-focused environment. - Willing to visit suppliers, manufacturers, warehouses, and 3PL locations around Bengaluru/Karnataka as needed. Success Metrics: - Minimal stockouts, expiry risk, and excess working capital. - Reliable vendor and manufacturer performance on cost, quality, timelines, and documentation. - Clear weekly visibility on inventory, procurement, production, and fulfilment.