Remote Inventory Planner & Optimization Specialist

Tanqeeb; Dubai; On-site; AED 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Tanqeeb is hiring an Inventory Planning Assistant / Specialist to support stock optimization, replenishment, and cross-warehouse coordination. The role focuses on monitoring inventory levels, reviewing lead times, and aligning demand with supply to balance product availability and investment.

The ideal candidate will analyze demand patterns, coordinate with Demand Planning and Procurement, and prepare dashboards and reports to support decision making in a fully remote setup.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in inventory planning, replenishment, and stock optimization.
• Ability to monitor inventory across warehouses and channels and to balance availability with investment.
• Analytical skills to review demand patterns, lead times, and safety stock.

Responsibilities

• Support the development and execution of inventory planning and replenishment processes.
• Monitor inventory levels across warehouses, locations, markets, products, and channels.
• Maintain appropriate inventory targets based on demand, lead times, service requirements, and supply constraints.
• Review stock levels against minimum, maximum, safety-stock, reorder-point, and target-inventory parameters.
• Identify stockout, low-stock, excess-stock, and slow-moving inventory risks.
• Prepare regular inventory reports, dashboards, and exception lists.
• Analyze inventory trends, movements, consumption, sales, orders, and supply availability.
• Review historical demand and consumption patterns to support inventory decisions.
• Coordinate with Demand Planning teams on forecasts, demand changes, seasonality, promotions, and new products.
• Translate demand requirements into inventory and replenishment requirements.
• Monitor supplier lead times, inbound commitments, and expected delivery dates.
• Coordinate with Procurement teams to ensure purchase orders support inventory requirements.
• Monitor purchase orders and follow up on delayed, incomplete, or at-risk supplies.
• Identify supply gaps that may result in stockouts or service-level risks.
• Recommend replenishment quantities based on approved planning parameters and business requirements.
• Support the calculation and review of safety stock and reorder points.
• Monitor inventory coverage, days of supply, stock turns, and inventory health.
• Review inventory exceptions and coordinate corrective actions with relevant stakeholders.
• Support inventory allocation across warehouses, stores, markets, or customer requirements where applicable.
• Coordinate stock transfers between locations to improve availability and reduce excess inventory.
• Support inventory balancing across multiple locations and distribution points.
• Monitor new-product launches and ensure initial inventory requirements are appropriately planned.
• Support phase-in and phase-out planning for new, replacement, and discontinued products.
• Identify obsolete, dormant, slow-moving, and excess inventory and support appropriate action plans.
• Coordinate with Sales and Commercial teams regarding significant demand changes and customer requirements.
• Monitor promotions, campaigns, seasonal events, and other activities that may affect inventory requirements.
• Support inventory planning for peak periods, holidays, seasonal demand, and major business events.
• Analyze supplier minimum order quantities, order multiples, case packs, and other supply constraints.
• Consider lead times, order cycles, shipment frequency, capacity, and supplier constraints when developing replenishment recommendations.
• Coordinate with Logistics and Warehousing teams to monitor inbound inventory and receiving capacity.
• Monitor inbound shipment status and identify potential inventory availability issues.
• Investigate inventory discrepancies between planning systems, ERP, WMS, physical stock, and supplier information.
• Support reconciliation of inventory records and investigate unusual inventory movements.
• Maintain accurate inventory planning parameters, product master data, supplier information, and planning records.
• Review item attributes, lead times, minimum order quantities, order multiples, safety stock, and replenishment settings.
• Support periodic reviews of inventory planning parameters based on actual demand and supply performance.
• Analyze supplier performance and its impact on inventory availability and working capital.
• Escalate recurring supplier delays, shortages, quality issues, and supply risks.
• Support contingency planning for supply disruptions, demand surges, logistics constraints, and other inventory risks.
• Prepare inventory scenarios to support changes in demand, supply, lead times, or business priorities.
• Assist with inventory budgeting, working-capital analysis, and stock investment planning.
• Monitor inventory value and identify opportunities to reduce unnecessary inventory investment.
• Coordinate with Finance on inventory valuation, provisions, write-offs, and working-capital information where applicable.
• Support inventory counts, cycle counts, reconciliation activities, and inventory audits.
• Ensure inventory planning activities comply with company policies, procedures, and control requirements.
• Maintain accurate documentation of planning decisions, assumptions, exceptions, and corrective actions.
• Use ERP, inventory planning, WMS, demand-planning, and business-intelligence systems to support planning activities.
• Develop and improve inventory dashboards, automated reports, exception alerts, and planning tools.
• Identify opportunities to automate repetitive inventory-planning activities.
• Support continuous-improvement initiatives focused on inventory availability, service levels, working capital, and planning accuracy.
• Provide management with regular updates on inventory risks, opportunities, performance, and recommended actions.

Skills

Inventory planning

Demand planning

Replenishment

Stock control

Data analysis

ERP

WMS

Excel

Stakeholder management

Multi-location coordination

Tools

ERP

WMS

Excel

BI tools

Job description

Tanqeeb is hiring an Inventory Planning Assistant / Specialist to support stock optimization, replenishment, and cross-warehouse coordination. The role focuses on monitoring inventory levels, reviewing lead times, and aligning demand with supply to balance product availability and investment.

The ideal candidate will analyze demand patterns, coordinate with Demand Planning and Procurement, and prepare dashboards and reports to support decision making in a fully remote setup.