Varun Dhoot

• Managing cost-efficient sourcing initiatives and implemented actionable plans with a strong customer service focus, driving improvements achieving 200 % YOY business growth. • Identifying and onboarded 30+ strategic brand partnerships, contributing to a 45% MoM revenue increase. • Monitoring inventory levels to ensure optimal stock availability and minimizing excess inventory, implementing strategies to manage slow moving inventory and reduce obsolete inventory. • Maintained and optimized NOOS (Never-Out-of-Stock) assortment using competition benchmarking and market insights. • Collaborated with the Sell-side team for category strategy implementation in line with the 6P framework—optimizing product selection, pricing, promotion, and visibility

1)Managing complete day to day operations across the category and ensuring setting up streamlined process to maximize brand potential on the app for Men’s Apparel category. 2)Working with category planning team to develop monthly brand level plans in accordance with category sales target and mothly event planning. 3) Closely tracking the Category Efficiency in terms of daily sales, order fulfillments timelines, returns and cancellations. 4)Building and Maintaining Brand relation, ensuring competitive collections ,timely dispatch of the orders ,getting competitive offers for brand campaings ,running on the App, offering better customer experience. New brands onboarding (Onboarded 30+ brands), which helped in offering new competitive collections,showcasing new brands to the customer wrt to other market places which helps in Increasing customer engagement. 5)Closely working with Site planning team for creating, Category curations ,Brand pages and Brand visibility on App. 6)Creating and managing the automated daily sales and efficiency dashboard which helps to get the insights of business for different sub categories.

1) Handling inventory operation (availability) for Mumbai, Pune, Ahmedabad. • Working and implementation of purchase and procurement strategies. 2)Analyse data to anticipate future needs and ensuring product stock is adequate for all distribution channels and cover direct demand from customers. 3) Coordinating with warehouse team to ensure inventory, procurement, capacity utilization goals are met. 4)Tracking fill rate of brands and vendors, analyzing and working with category team and brands for solving supply disruption and streamlining the supplies. 5)As Availability manager maintained the availability to 98% up by 11%. 6) Closely working with Planning team in optimizing inventory in terms of reducing DOI, increasing buying cycle frequency and payments term for cost saving and increase revenue. 7) Working with cross functional team for superior customer service in terms of product availability on Grofers app, opening new facilities and balancing demand + Supply management.