About the Role
We’re looking for a Demand Planner 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!
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Responsibilities
- Ensure correct inventory at the stores (No OOS or OVS) by analyzing the current inventory status and updating the ordering parameters.
- Daily monitoring of stock movement and running reports of daily inventory adjustments.
- Maintain parameters of the replenishment model and ensure accurate input into the system, including lead times, reorder points, economic order quantities, and suppliers' minimum order quantities.
- Prepare demand forecasts and initiate ordering to the stores, tracking receipt of such orders.
- Manage the relevant inventory in coordination with the Category Managers.
- Ensure timely and accurate analysis and reporting of inventory and purchase forecasts.
- Dispatch orders to suppliers and ensure proper tracking.
- Liaise with suppliers to improve collaborative forecasting planning and replenishment.
- Maintain appropriate and accurate records of in-stock and inventory positions.
Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in Inventory Controlling.
- Detail-oriented, structured, and able to prioritize; considered a solution provider rather than a bottleneck.
- Capable of interacting with senior-level executives and managing the expectations of multiple stakeholders.
- Energized by the unknown, looking forward to learning every day on the job.
- Excellent analytical and communication skills, hands-on with several tools.
- Robust interpersonal and intercultural skills; able to inspire teams and stakeholders to rally behind a mission.
- Fluent in English; Arabic language skills would be highly advantageous.
