Sr. Specialist Demand Planning

Overview

Job Description

• Demand Forecasting and Planning : Ability to use past sales data, market trends, promotions and category insights to develop a highly accurate forecast for the Import Shipments portfolio
• Imports Shipments Planning: Ability to plan forecasts/stocks/inbound containers for a 3/6 month forward pipeline to maintain constant availability with adequate Stock Cover, utilizing all available data sources and alignment processes with cross functional teams.
• Import Shipment Clearance Process: Act as subject matter expert and drive process governance and adherence for imports shipment clearing process with external/internal stakeholders.
• Work closely with Finance/Commercial/Operations teams to ensure zero demurrages, minimized claims and expedited/time bound clearing process is in place. Ability to monitor and drive continuous process improvement to reduce costs. Ensure new product sourcing follows internal guidelines/lead times and are planned accordingly.
• Work with respective Country Supply chain teams on projects and initiatives to drive process improvements.
• Work closely with commercial/operations teams on key projects and initiatives.
• Reporting and Communication: Prepare and present demand planning reports and dashboards. Use BI analytics to automate reporting processes.
• Implement standardized supply chain metrics and processes for all MENA countries.
• Inventory Management: Ability to plan and drive DOH policy for all MENA countries with end to end mapping of supply chain processes.
• Work with respective country team to improve Forecasting accuracy and availability of SKUs in store
• Monitoring inventory processes to ensure Shrinkage is minimized while optimizing on DOH.
• Promotions Planning: Work closely with the commercial team to define metrics and processes for promotions planning in the supply chain.
• DC Management: Monitor daily and weekly DC KPIs and share with Local country head and drive the improvement in operations. Establish and ensure compliance about processes and Operations in Warehouse
• Supplier Management: Able to hold discussions with external stakeholders on availability and fill rate and drive improvements.
• Project Management: Ability to work on various projects with a wide variety of stakeholders, managing project timelines and team expectations effectively.
• S&OP: Ability to facilitate and drive cross functional teams, identify gaps to forecast and business plans, identify key blockers and be able to resolve with country teams.

Qualifications

• You have at least 5+ years hands-on experience in Supply Chain Planning, Forecasting, Import
• Shipments, DC Planning, Inventory Management & System implementations
• You come with an experience in retail groceries, ideally with focus on Ultra Fresh Analytical skills, big data manipulation + advanced ease with excel
• You have experience in forecasting models and suppliers scheduling
• You have experience in Imports Shipments, Incoterms.
• You are very detail-oriented, structured and know how to prioritize -- you consider yourself as someone who delivers solutions and not bottlenecks to be solved.
• You have good stakeholder management skills and are a self starter with an entrepreneurial mindset.
• You are someone energized by the unknown and look forward to learning each day on the job
• You have excellent analytical and communication skills, and always like to be hands-on with several tools