Senior Planning Officer

شركة المراعي; Dammam; On-site; SAR 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading food and beverage company in Dammam is seeking a Senior Planning Officer. The role focuses on managing stock levels across depots, analyzing sales trends, and ensuring efficient inventory management. Candidates should have a diploma in commerce or related fields and at least 2 years of experience in logistics or supply planning, along with strong analytical and teamwork skills. The company offers competitive pay and excellent benefits.

Benefits

Competitive package

Generous leave

Medical coverage

Discretionary bonus

Training and development

Qualifications

• Minimum 2 years experience in logistics or supply planning.
• Experience in managing a high number of SKUs.
• Excellent verbal and written English skills.

Responsibilities

• Monitor stock fluctuations for replenishment needs.
• Analyze sales trends to support stock replenishment.
• Identify aged stocks to reduce expiry risks.

Skills

Stock management

Sales trend analysis

Team collaboration

Analytical skills

Education

Diploma in accounts, commerce, planning or related stream

Tools

SAP

ERP

Job description

Overview

Senior Planning Officer | Dammam, Saudi Arabia

The Company: Almarai is the world’s largest vertically integrated dairy and the region’s largest food and beverage manufacturing and distribution company. Headquartered in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Almarai Company is ranked as the #1 FMCG Brand in the MENA region and is a market leader in all its categories across the GCC. Almarai currently employs over 40,000 employees servicing some 220,000 retail outlets across GCC, Egypt and Jordan and has reported net income of SAR 2.31 billion on sales of SAR 20.97 billion in 2024. For more details, please visit our website – www.almarai.com.

The Role: To ensure inventory levels in all sales depots reflect inventory policy for every active SKU by monitoring stock levels, analyzing sales trends, identifying aging of stocks, suggesting replenishment of stock quantities, submitting suggested stocks to CPP, offloading CPP-approved replenishment stocks to SAP, monitoring CPP-confirmed orders with sales depots, and generating service level reports.

About the role:

Responsibilities

• Monitor stock fluctuations to identify areas for replenishment or order adjustments.
• Analyze sales trends to ensure a robust stock replenishment plan.
• Identify aging of stocks to reduce expiry of stocks in depots.
• Submit consolidated planned orders of stock replenishment to CPP for confirmation.
• Generate weekly reefer turnaround delay reports.

Candidate must meet the following criteria to be shortlisted:

• Diploma in accounts, commerce, planning or related stream / graduate in commerce.
• 2 years' experience in logistics, supply planning.
• Experience in managing a high number of SKUs.
• Excellent verbal and written English skills.
• Strong PC skills (computer literate in SAP, ERP).
• Competencies such as: knowledge of business, sales trends, high analytical skills, numerical ability, ability to interpret information, team player.

Benefits: Almarai offers a competitive package, generous leave, medical coverage, discretionary bonus, training, and development.

This is a great opportunity to join a successful and expanding global business, offering an excellent remuneration and benefits package.