Reliance Retail has appointed Manuj Bansal as Vice President, Head of Supply Chain for its Beauty Business.
In his new role, he will lead the business’s supply chain strategy, focusing on building an agile, cost-efficient, customer-focused, and sustainable operating model to support growth in the expanding omnichannel beauty market.
Manuj brings more than 16 years of experience across supply chain strategy, network design, logistics, demand planning, customer service, manufacturing, operations transformation, cost optimisation, and last-mile delivery.
Before joining Reliance Retail, he spent 5 years with Flipkart, holding senior leadership positions across large appliances, grocery, first and last-mile operations, network design, and cost transformation.
Most recently, Manuj served as National Head – Large Appliances Supply Chain, leading pan-India operations across fulfilment centres, first and last-mile operations, cost, speed, and service transformation. During his tenure, he helped introduce 2-hour delivery and installation across 16 cities, improved cost-to-serve, expanded the fulfilment network, and led a workforce of more than 1,800 employees.
Earlier, he served as National Head – First & Last Mile Operations, Network Design and Cost Transformation for Grocery & Large Appliances, managing more than 2,000 employees across over 1,000 distribution hubs.
Before Flipkart, Manuj spent more than 11 years with Unilever, gaining experience across manufacturing, logistics, network optimisation, demand planning, customer service, and distribution. His roles included Factory Head, Project Manager – Network Optimization & Distribution Center Road-map, Head – Ultralogistics, Customer Service Manager – General Trade, Demand Planning Manager, and Customer Service Manager – Modern Trade.
His work at Unilever included major transformation programmes across transportation, distribution, forecasting, service levels, plant productivity, and supply chain digitisation.
Manuj began his career through Unilever’s Business Leadership Trainee programme, gaining cross-functional exposure across procurement, factory operations, demand and supply planning, warehousing, logistics, customer service, and sales. He also completed a summer internship at Nestlé India, working on distributor norms and last-mile service optimisation.
He holds an MBA in Logistics, Materials and Supply Chain Management from the Indian Institute of Management Mumbai.
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