Senior Supply Chain Manager
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About the Role
About the team Careem Grocery is reinventing how people shop for groceries, pharmacy, and everyday essentials, on-demand, in minutes. We're a startup within a startup: a small,.
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Responsibilities
- Build and maintain demand forecasting models across SKUs, categories, and dark store locations
- Develop frameworks to manage demand variability from seasonality, promotions, and macroeconomic signals
- Own the weekly and monthly S&OP cadence and facilitate cross functional alignment
- Set and monitor inventory targets by SKU and location to balance availability against holding cost and waste
- Write and maintain SQL queries for demand signals and build dashboards for non technical stakeholders
- Translate complex demand signals into clear narratives for senior leadership
Requirements
- Experience in demand planning, forecasting, and S&OP
- Proficiency in SQL and statistical methods (time series, regression, ML assisted forecasting)
- Ability to build and maintain demand forecasting models across SKUs, categories, and locations
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills
- Excellent communication and presentation skills for senior leadership
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About the Team
- Careem Grocery is reinventing how people shop for groceries, pharmacy, and everyday essentials, on demand, in minutes. We're a startup within a startup: a small, high conviction team operating at speed, with real ownership over outcomes.
About the Role
- This is a senior individual contributor and cross functional leadership role for someone who is equally comfortable writing a SQL query, challenging a commercial team's promo forecast, and presenting supply risk to a VP. You'll own demand planning end to end; from statistical modelling to S&OP facil
What you'll do
- Forecasting & Modelling Build and maintain demand forecasting models across SKUs, categories, and dark store locations. Go beyond Excel leverage statistical methods (time series, regression, ML assisted forecasting) and own the tooling decisions that get us there. You should be comfortable pulling
- Demand Variability & Scenario Planning Develop frameworks to manage volatility from seasonality, promotions, new product launches, and macroeconomic signals. Run scenario models before they become supply crises.
- S&OP Process Leadership Own the weekly and monthly S&OP cadence. Facilitate cross functional alignment across commercial, ops, and logistics. Surface gaps early, propose solutions, and drive decisions, not just document them.
- Inventory Optimisation Set and monitor inventory targets by SKU and location to balance availability against holding cost and waste. Work closely with category and logistics teams to design replenishment logic that performs at quick commerce speed.
- Data & Tooling You'll be hands on with data. Write and maintain SQL queries for demand signals, build dashboards that non technical stakeholders can act on, and explore AI/ML tooling to improve forecast accuracy. If a process can be automated, you'll be the one to build the case and execute it.
- Insight & Communication Translate complex demand signals into clear narratives for senior leadership. Forecast updates, variance analysis, risk flags you own the story and the numbers behind it.
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