Manager Demand Planning

Role Summary

We’re looking for a Demand Planning Manager to join the team and focus on growing our  own Grocery Store “tMart”, which is the region’s first cloud store concept offering 30-minutedelivery  of groceries at hypermarket prices. The service has expanded rapidly across Kuwait, UAE, Qatar,  Jordan, Bahrain, Egypt, Oman and Iraq!

What’s On Your Plate?

• This role requires to organise the countries forecasting demand of supplies to stores, POs for replenishment  and maintaining availability in the stores 

• Accountable for the overall demand planning/replenishment of Tmart stores and warehouse in Region • Ensuring timely and accurate analysis and reporting of inventory and purchase forecasts

• Provides DP/ replenishment insights and plans/ initiatives to keep availability at par with the management's  business plan, accountable for the holding stock value, supplier service level. Ageing stock optimization. • Ability to provide solutions and initiatives to solve problems with stocks in the warehouse and stores • Guidance to country demand planner and admins to ensure smooth workflow 

• Works closely and guides the commercial and operations pro-actively to ensure supplies and  suppliers are not affected. 

• Leading system migrations and ensuring all new tools are on track and suggest actions of automatization to  reduce manual work 

• Continuously challenging the country forecasting model and taking on account all the parameters that  affects the forecast. 

• Helping demand planner in replenishment of any capacity augmentation initiative ( ex: 3 party warehouse,  cross docking stations , etc) 

• Guiding country demand planner for the supplier's schedule to stores and warehouse to ensure efficiency in  receiving 

• Building all necessary dashboards to report progress on activities and KPIs 

• Taking all necessary actions to reach target KPI in terms of availability per category, per supplier and items  roles