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Lenskart

Vertically integrated D2C eyewear retailer

Inventory Transformation Lead

Inventory Management +1Updated on Nov 13
Full-timeBengaluru, Karnataka, IndiaNo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • 10–15 years of experience in inventory, merchandise, or supply planning, including senior or leadership stints owning enterprise-level outcomes.
  • Significant experience in inventory, merchandise, or supply planning, integrated business planning, or inventory transformation, with clear ownership of outcomes such as Days on Hand, inventory turns, working capital, or fill rate.
  • Experience with high stock-keeping-unit complexity, multiple channels, and assortment lifecycle, from backgrounds such as fast fashion, omnichannel retail, quick commerce, consumer electronics, or integrated-business-planning-focused fast-moving consumer goods.
  • Strong understanding of open-to-buy, budgeting, allocation, replenishment, forecasting, and ageing, and a track record of influencing Merchandising, Sourcing, Manufacturing, and Finance without owning those functions.
  • Personal experience reducing inventory while holding or improving availability, with the ability to identify the specific decisions that drove the improvement.
  • Ability to explain the starting Days on Hand, the resulting level, and the specific decisions that drove the change.
  • Experience releasing working capital through structural change rather than one-time inventory clean-ups.
  • Experience challenging a buying or inventory decision when the economics did not add up and making the decision stick.

Responsibilities

  • Reduce Days on Hand and grow inventory turns; reduce ageing, obsolescence, and markdowns through category-level guardrails.
  • Set inventory budgets by category and channel, establish open-to-buy and safety-stock guardrails with Merchandising and Finance, and arbitrate trade-offs among assortment, availability, and margin.
  • Reduce idea-to-shelf and procure-to-availability lead times across India manufacturing, the China joint venture, and third-party sourcing.
  • Set fill-rate guardrails, improve forecast accuracy, and build differentiated inventory policies by category and location.
  • Partner with Finance to release cash from excess inventory and evaluate decisions based on both profit-and-loss and cash impact.
  • Lead the monthly integrated business planning and inventory review, providing leadership with a fact-based view of demand, supply, and capacity.
  • Own inventory transformation at an enterprise level, balancing availability, working capital, assortment, and speed across stores, online, manufacturing, and sourcing.
  • Bring together Merchandising, Sourcing, Replenishment, Manufacturing, Technology, and Finance to set the inventory envelope, drive integrated planning, and shorten the journey from product idea to customer availability.

About the Company

Lenskart

Vertically integrated D2C eyewear retailer

Lenskart runs a vertically integrated eyewear business that sells prescription glasses, sunglasses, and contact lenses through a direct-to-consumer, omnichannel model. It designs and manufactures in-house (including an automated factory) and retails its own brands while also carrying acquired brands, using AI-powered virtual try-on and even home eye tests to help customers choose frames. Its advantage comes from controlling the full supply chain—from design to retail—and pursuing growth through strategic acquisitions like Owndays and Meller. The goal is to make high-quality eyewear affordable and accessible at scale, expanding in India and internationally with technology to improve the shopping experience.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Faridabad, India
Founded
2008

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