Sr. Specialist Demand Planning

talabat

What s On Your Plate?

• 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.