Assistant Manager, Customer Facing Supply Chain

Nestlé SA; Dubai; On-site; AED 183,000 - 258,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading multinational food company in Dubai is seeking an Assistant Manager in Customer Facing Supply Chain. This role involves optimizing service and inventory management to enhance operational effectiveness. The ideal candidate has 2-4 years of supply chain experience, strong communication and relationship management skills, along with proficiency in Excel. Join a dynamic team to build trust with customers and drive significant improvements in the supply chain.

Qualifications

• 2 - 4 years of experience in Supply Chain function.
• Exposure within Sales and/or Retail Account is beneficial.
• Strong relationship management and communication skills.
• Excellent proficiency in Excel.

Responsibilities

• Maximize service and enhance day-to-day operations.
• Collaborate closely with Customers to understand their operations.
• Resolve out of stock and availability issues.
• Maintain Customer forecast accuracy on Nestlé SKUs.

Skills

Relationship management

Communication skills

Excel proficiency

Job description

Assistant Manager, Customer Facing Supply Chain

Assistant Manager, Customer Facing Supply Chain

Location: Dubai, UAE

Full-time

POSITION SUMMARY

To be the immediate face of Nestlé within a Customer’s Supply Chain location, responsible for maximizing service and enhancing day to day effectiveness of both the operations by efficient management of inventory and in-stock availability.

To be the face of Nestlé within the Customer’s supply chain, liaising with all aspects of the Nestlé supply chain and commercial functions and providing high level communication in order to maximize service.

To build trust with the Customer to enable deeper level of engagement and accelerate business improvements.

• Collaborating closely with the Customer to understand their operations and supply chain to shelf.
• Communicating and resolving out of stock & availability issues at store and distribution centres.
• Reviewing progress of agreed KPI scorecard at defined frequency e.g. Monthly /Quarterly with Customer and Nestlé line managers.

Ensure an efficient, timely, smooth (and without manual intervention) flow of automated orders is received by Nestlé by:

• Ensuring regular Master data clean up and on time listing and disliting of SKU's (phase in/phase out)
• Proactively updating the Barcodes in Customers data base.

Maintain Customer forecast accuracy on Nestlé SKUs and work towards improving the same by: -

• Reviewing demand deviations, re-forecasting as needed using sales and historical trend data
• communicating and working closely with Demand Planners
• organizing/ chairing key meetings, challenging assumptions and ensuring agreement on initial forecast and communication to all parties involved

What will make you successful…

• 2 - 4 years of experience in Supply Chain function
• Exposure within Sales and / or Retail Account would be beneficial
• Strong relationship management and communication skills.
• Excellent proficiency in Excel

Location: Dubai, UAE

Full-time

POSITION SUMMARY

To be the immediate face of Nestlé within a Customer’s Supply Chain location, responsible for maximizing service and enhancing day to day effectiveness of both the operations by efficient management of inventory and in-stock availability.

To be the face of Nestlé within the Customer’s supply chain, liaising with all aspects of the Nestlé supply chain and commercial functions and providing high level communication in order to maximize service.

To build trust with the Customer to enable deeper level of engagement and accelerate business improvements.

• Collaborating closely with the Customer to understand their operations and supply chain to shelf.
• Communicating and resolving out of stock & availability issues at store and distribution centres.
• Reviewing progress of agreed KPI scorecard at defined frequency e.g. Monthly /Quarterly with Customer and Nestlé line managers.

Ensure an efficient, timely, smooth (and without manual intervention) flow of automated orders is received by Nestlé by:

• Ensuring regular Master data clean up and on time listing and disliting of SKU's (phase in/phase out)
• Proactively updating the Barcodes in Customers data base.

Maintain Customer forecast accuracy on Nestlé SKUs and work towards improving the same by: -

• Reviewing demand deviations, re-forecasting as needed using sales and historical trend data
• communicating and working closely with Demand Planners
• organizing/ chairing key meetings, challenging assumptions and ensuring agreement on initial forecast and communication to all parties involved

What will make you successful…

• 2 - 4 years of experience in Supply Chain function
• Exposure within Sales and / or Retail Account would be beneficial
• Strong relationship management and communication skills.