Demand Planning Manager

Overview

• Lead monthly demand planning cycle across GCC markets including UAE, KSA, Bahrain, Oman, and Qatar.
• Develop and maintain accurate sales forecasts using historical trends, market intelligence, promotions, seasonality, and business inputs.
• Analyze forecast variances and implement corrective actions to improve forecast accuracy and bias reduction.
• Coordinate with Sales, Marketing, Finance, Procurement, and Supply Chain teams to align demand assumptions.
• Drive and manage the end-to-end S&OP process across manufacturing and distribution businesses.
• Conduct monthly S&OP review meetings with cross-functional stakeholders and leadership teams.
• Ensure alignment between demand plans, production capacity, procurement planning, and inventory targets.
• Develop dashboards and reporting tools for management visibility and decision-making.
• Collaborate with manufacturing plants and distribution centers to ensure uninterrupted product availability.
• Optimize inventory levels while minimizing excess stock, slow-moving inventory, and stock-outs.
• Support procurement planning and replenishment strategies for frozen food categories including Meat, Chicken, Beef, Vegetables & Fruits, Vegetarian products.
• Lead initiatives to centralize planning functions and standardize planning processes across business units.
• Implement and enhance planning tools, automation systems, dashboards, and analytical reporting.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives focused on logistics cost optimization, warehouse cost reduction, inventory efficiency, service level improvement, and planning automation.
• Coordinate with regional business teams, manufacturing plants, procurement, logistics, and warehouse operations.
• Support management with business insights, demand risks, supply constraints, and mitigation strategies.
• Present planning performance reports and KPIs to senior leadership.