APM/PM - FMCG Supply & Demand Planning

About the role

What you'll do

• At Purplle, we are building a portfolio of beauty and personal care brands that sell across general trade,
• modern trade, e-commerce and quick commerce. To scale them, we need a planning system that puts
• the right product in the right channel at the right time, with the least working capital tied up. We are
• looking for a Product Manager to build the core of that system: the products that power demand and
• supply planning for our FMCG business.
• This is a high-impact, zero-to-one role.
• Youll work alongside the Senior Product Manager who leads our demand and supply planning
• products, and own the execution and scale-up of our demand planning, S&OP and supply
• planning products.
• Together, you'll replace spreadsheet-based planning with connected demand and supply
• planning products that span our own plants and contract manufacturers.
• Your products will directly drive forecast accuracy, product availability across channels,

What you'll bring

• About 2 years of product management experience with clear ownership: you have taken
• products from discovery through delivery and adoption, ideally in supply chain, operations or
• internal tools.
• Hands-on exposure to demand and supply planning: forecasting and how accuracy is measured,
• S&OP, and inventory norms (safety stock, reorder points).
• Exposure to Indian general trade, modern trade and quick commerce.
• Strong analytical skills and working knowledge of SQL; you make decisions backed by data.
• First-principles and systems thinking: you break ambiguous problems into structured pieces and
• Reason About How Forecasting, S&OP And Supply Planning Connect.
• High ownership and bias for action: you drive problems to resolution without waiting to be told.
• Clear written and verbal communication, and experience working cross-functionally in agile
• teams.