Associate Manager, Demand & Supply Planning - Temp

Position Details

• The role is located in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
• The structured source metadata classifies the workplace as onsite.
• The title identifies the position as temporary.

Position Summary

Demand Planning

• Lead monthly business planning and pre-alignment and sign-off meetings with cluster, sales, customer development, and marketing teams.
• Use sellout and IMS data to build plans by category, district, and SKU and analyze sales-out bias.
• Develop baseline forecasts for new product launches and promotions using market size, pricing, competitor, and distribution inputs.
• Conduct price elasticity simulations and model volume scenarios across product portfolios.

Supply and Inventory

• Develop PIPO plans to avoid out-of-stocks and overstock based on planning outcomes, supply alerts, and prior performance.
• Coordinate with supply, clearance, logistics, and category planning teams to ensure timely supply, freshness, and optimum inventory.
• Assess sales landing and its impact on replenishment, full-year sales, and trade stock cover.
• Govern monthly pallet projections with warehouse and logistics stakeholders to ensure capacity and contingency planning.

Performance and Execution

• Monitor growth, tonnage, bias, stock cover, bad goods, service level, accuracy, and end-to-end cost KPIs.
• Coordinate promotional stock execution and support order fulfillment, out-of-stock reason coding, and corrective action plans.
• Maintain and communicate demand planning learning logs covering deviations from actual results.
• Contribute to bad goods reduction through stakeholder reviews, financial provisions, and escalation of risks.

Success Profile

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or Supply Chain.
• At least two years of experience in demand planning.
• Experience with Microsoft Office tools.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Food and beverage background is a plus.