Manager Demand Planning

• 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

• 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.

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