Manager Demand Planning
Full-time Mid-Senior LevelJob Overview
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-minute delivery 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 organize 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
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