Manager — Analytics & AI Deployment

## About the Company Siyaram Silk Mills Ltd., India's largest vertically integrated textile and apparel company since 1978, operates across seven verticals with brands like Siyaram's, J. Hampstead, and Cadini. It reported a total income of ₹2,653 Cr (+15.5%) in FY26, producing over 100 million meters of fabric annually. ## About the Role This role focuses on developing and deploying analytics and AI models for demand forecasting, inventory optimization, fabric defect detection, and plant analytics. Success is gauged by outcomes like forecast accuracy and inventory turns. ## Key Responsibilities - Build demand and sales forecasting models. - Optimize inventory and replenishment processes. - Plan production and detect anomalies in process data. - Implement computer vision for fabric defect detection and garment grading. - Develop real models using time series, classification, optimization, and vision techniques. - Deploy models across departments by shadowing work processes, training staff, building champions, and writing SOPs. - Decide when to build versus buy analytics capabilities. - Manage APIs, integrate SAP with BigQuery, and handle data governance and reporting layers. ## Requirements - 8+ years in data science, analytics, and technical delivery. - Proficiency in forecasting techniques (ARIMA, Prophet, LSTM, XGBoost), regression, classification, clustering, and anomaly detection. - Experience in supply chain analytics and computer vision is advantageous. - Strong skills in Python, SQL, TensorFlow/PyTorch/Scikit-learn, Power BI or Tableau, and BigQuery or Spark. - Comfortable extracting data from SAP or any ERP. - Hands-on experience with applied AI on real problems, including prompting, retrieval, agents, and honest evaluation. - Evidence of teaching non-technical teams and ensuring sustained adoption of new workflows. - Preferred experience in textile, apparel, or garment industries; otherwise, manufacturing or physical operations. - Fluent in Hindi and English. ## Preferred Qualifications - Immediate to 60 days preferred joining. ## What We Offer - Direct reporting to the Executive Director. - Opportunity to significantly impact the business through analytics and AI deployment. ## Location & Work Mode - Full-time, on-site position in Mumbai, with regular time at Tarapur, Daman, and Silvassa. ## Additional Requirements - Mandatory experience in forecasting techniques (ARIMA, Prophet, LSTM, XGBoost), regression, classification, clustering, and anomaly detection. - Hands-on experience with applied AI on real problems — prompting, retrieval, agents, and honest evaluation. - Preferred experience in textile, apparel, or garment industries; otherwise, manufacturing or physical operations. - Fluent in Hindi and English.

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