Manager

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Job summary

tMart is seeking a Demand Planning Manager to coordinate forecasting of country-wide store demand and replenishment in a fast-growing cloud-store concept offering rapid delivery. You will ensure inventory availability, manage POs, and drive insights with dashboards to meet KPIs across regions, warehouses, and stores.

The role requires senior-level interaction, FMCG demand planning experience, and a proactive, analytical leader capable of guiding multi-team efforts.

Qualifications

• Minimum 10 years of FMCG experience in demand planning and replenishment.
• Experience interacting with senior-level executives and multiple stakeholders.
• Strong analytical, communication, and problem-solving skills.
• Experience leading teams and guiding cross-functional projects.
• Experience with dashboards and reporting tools.

Responsibilities

• Organize forecasting demand for country stores and replenishment POs.
• Maintain stock availability across stores and warehouses in the region.
• Provide DP/replenishment insights and forecasts aligned with business plans.
• Lead system migrations and drive automation to reduce manual work.
• Create dashboards reporting progress on KPIs and stock levels.
• Guide country demand planners and cross-functional teams.

Skills

Demand planning

Replenishment

Stakeholder management

Analytical skills

Communication

Time management

Data-driven

Tech savvy

Leadership

Problem solving

Job description

Category Logistics, Supply Chain & Procurement

Job Description

We re looking for a Demand Planning Manager to join the team and focus on growing our own Grocery Store tMart , which is the region s first cloud store concept offering 30-minute delivery of groceries at hypermarket prices. The service has expanded rapidly across Kuwait, UAE, Qatar, Jordan, Bahrain, Egypt, Oman and Iraq!

What s On Your Plate?

This role requires to organize the countries forecasting demand of supplies to stores, POs for replenishment and maintaining availability in the stores. Accountable for the overall demand planning/replenishment of Tmart stores and warehouse in Region. Ensuring timely and accurate analysis and reporting of inventory and purchase forecasts. Provides DP/ replenishment insights and plans/ initiatives to keep availability at par with the management's business plan, accountable for the holding stock value, supplier service level. Ageing stock optimization. Ability to provide solutions and initiatives to solve problems with stocks in the warehouse and stores Guidance to country demand planner and admins to ensure smooth workflow. Works closely and guides the commercial and operations pro-actively to ensure supplies and suppliers are not affected. Leading system migrations and ensuring all new tools are on track and suggest actions of automatization to reduce manual work. Continuously challenging the country forecasting model and taking on account all the parameters that affects the forecast. Helping demand planner in replenishment of any capacity augmentation initiative (ex: 3 party warehouse, cross docking stations , etc). Guiding country demand planner for the supplier's schedule to stores and warehouse to ensure efficiency in receiving. Building all necessary dashboards to report progress on activities and KPIs. Taking all necessary actions to reach target KPI in terms of availability per category, per supplier and items roles

Desired Candidate Profile

Ability to interact/guide the senior-level executives and can manage the expectations of multiple stakeholders. Past experience in FMCG in demand planning and replenishment is a must. At least 10 years experience. Solid experience in Stakeholder Management, Time Management, data & detail oriented & tech savvy. Leads, coordinates and facilitates the work of others, has management responsibilities. Uses knowledge of how the team integrates with other teams to coordinate efforts and resources to achieve shared and individual objectives. Excellent analytical and communication skills, and always hands-on with several tools. Problem solver and autonomy. Ability to lead all activities autonomously while involving stakeholders when needed.