Manager Demand Planning

Job Description What's on your plate? This role requires organizing the country's 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 the 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, and aging 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 regional commercial and operations proactively 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 into account all the parameters that affect the forecast. Helping demand planner in replenishment of any capacity augmentation initiative (e.g., third-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 item roles. Drive Imports replenishment planning with overseas suppliers and plan shipment and logistics schedule to ensure time-bound E2E replenishment process is executed. Qualifications Requirements: Ability to interact/guide senior-level executives and manage the expectations of multiple stakeholders. Past experience in FMCG in demand planning and replenishment is a must. At least 10 years of experience. Solid experience in Stakeholder Management, Time Management, data, detail-oriented, and tech-savvy. Leads, coordinates, and facilitates the work of others, with 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. #J-18808-Ljbffr