Sr. Specialist Demand Planning

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Demand Forecasting and Planning : Ability to use past sales data, market trends, promotions and category insights to develop a highly accurate forecast for the Import Shipments portfolio

Imports Shipments Planning: Ability to plan forecasts/stocks/inbound containers for a 3/6 month forward pipeline to maintain constant availability with adequate Stock Cover, utilizing all available data sources and alignment processes with cross functional teams.

Import Shipment Clearance Process: Act as subject matter expert and drive process governance and adherence for imports shipment clearing process with external/internal stakeholders.

Work closely with Finance/Commercial/Operations teams to ensure zero demurrages, minimized claims and expedited/time bound clearing process is in place. Ability to monitor and drive continuous process improvement to reduce costs. Ensure new product sourcing follows internal guidelines/lead times and are planned accordingly.

Work with respective Country Supply chain teams on projects and initiatives to drive process improvements.

Work closely with commercial/operations teams on key projects and initiatives.

Reporting and Communication: Prepare and present demand planning reports and dashboards. Use BI analytics to automate reporting processes.

Implement standardized supply chain metrics and processes for all MENA countries.

Inventory Management: Ability to plan and drive DOH policy for all MENA countries with end to end mapping of supply chain processes.

Work with respective country team to improve Forecasting accuracy and availability of SKUs in store

Monitoring inventory processes to ensure Shrinkage is minimized while optimizing on DOH.

Promotions Planning: Work closely with the commercial team to define metrics and processes for promotions planning in the supply chain.

DC Management: Monitor daily and weekly DC KPIs and share with Local country head and drive the improvement in operations. Establish and ensure compliance about processes and Operations in Warehouse

Supplier Management: Able to hold discussions with external stakeholders on availability and fill rate and drive improvements.

Project Management: Ability to work on various projects with a wide variety of stakeholders, managing project timelines and team expectations effectively.

S&OP: Ability to facilitate and drive cross functional teams, identify gaps to forecast and business plans, identify key blockers and be able to resolve with country teams.