Manager Supply Chain

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Job summary

tMart is seeking a Demand Planning Manager to lead forecast, replenishment, and inventory strategy for its grocery network across the region. The role focuses on ensuring store availability and optimizing stock value while driving automation and system enhancements.

With 10+ years in FMCG demand planning, you will guide country planners, collaborate with commercial and operations teams, and develop dashboards to report KPIs and progress toward availability targets.

Qualifications

• 10+ years experience in FMCG demand planning and replenishment.
• Experience interacting with senior-level executives and managing multiple stakeholders.
• Strong analytical, communication and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Organize country forecasting of demand and replenishment for stores and POs.
• Oversee demand planning and replenishment for Tmart stores and regional warehouse.
• Ensure timely, accurate inventory analysis and forecast reporting.
• Provide DP/replenishment insights and initiatives to align with business plans.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Demand planning

Forecasting accuracy

Data analysis

Time management

Leadership

Job description

Category Logistics, Supply Chain & Procurement

Job Description

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

Qualifications

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 involving stakeholders when needed.