Manager Supply Chain

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Job summary

Talabat invites a seasoned Demand Planning Manager to lead forecast and replenishment for our tMart grocery concept across the region. You will organize country forecasting, place POs, and ensure store availability while guiding cross-functional teams.

With 10+ years in FMCG demand planning, you will drive KPI performance, lead system migrations to automate processes, and report insights to executives to optimize supplier service levels.

Qualifications

• Past FMCG experience in demand planning and replenishment.
• Excellent analytical and communication skills.
• Leads, coordinates and facilitates the work of others; has management responsibilities.
• Strong time management and stakeholder coordination.
• Proficient with data, details and technology enhancements.

Responsibilities

• Organize country forecasting and replenishment for stores.
• Own overall demand planning and replenishment for tMart stores and regional warehouse.
• Ensure timely analysis and reporting of inventory and purchase forecasts.
• Provide DP and replenishment insights to maintain availability per KPI targets.
• Lead system migrations and automation initiatives to reduce manual work.
• Guide country demand planners and admins to ensure smooth workflow.
• Develop dashboards to report progress on activities and KPIs.

Skills

Analytical skills

Communication

Stakeholder management

Time management

Autonomy

Tech-savvy

Leadership

Problem solving

Job description

Category Logistics, Supply Chain & Procurement

Industry Logistics and Supply Chain

About the opportunity

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

What Did We Order?

• 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 involvingstakeholders when needed.

Who we are

Talabat is part of the Delivery Hero Group, the world’s pioneering local delivery platform, our mission is to deliver an amazing experience-fast, easy, and to your door. We operate in around 65 countries worldwide. Headquartered in Berlin, Germany. Delivery Hero has been listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange since 2017 and is part of the MDAX stock market index.