Role Name: Analyst – Demand Planning

Job Summary:

The Analyst – Demand Planning is part of Demand Planning team whose responsibilities are to ensure right stock is available.

The Analyst – Demand Planning plays a central role and coordinates between Supplier, Sales Divisions, Warehouse, Freight Forwarding, Accounts & Finance teams.

This role reports into the Demand Planning Manager in GTRC.

The key processes that the Analyst – Demand Planning would need to drive are forecast validation, purchase order creation & processing, local promotion order processing, supplier debit note preparation, municipality health clearance process, KPI reporting etc.

Job Responsibilities:

• Develop and track KPIs in supply chain and inventory
• Provide inventory-related analytical support to sales team and suppliers
• Ensure sales forecast prepared by Sales Divisions is reasonable & accurate based on past trends
• Coordinate with Suppliers to ensure that Purchase Orders are prepared accurately, entered in SAP on-time, based on agreed supply chain criteria, forecast & stock levels
• Ensure that items ordered are delivered on-time by coordinating with Suppliers, Freight forwarding team, Warehouse team
• Take lead on Demand Planning Process
• Control and manage agreed stock levels of products
• Manage low stock situations
• Validate receipts, quantities and their value
• Track shipments until stock becomes sellable
• Make sure that Article Master data is accurate & complete
• Create & process local promotion order in SAP accurately & on-time
• Coordinate with Freight forwarding company & Baladiya in case of health clearance of items
• KPI Monitoring & Analysis for key supply chain indicators
• Prepare supplier debit notes & recovery of spend from suppliers on time & accurately with all relevant information
• Prepare reports of analysis and backups to raise claims on suppliers for marketing spends
• Follow up with suppliers for settlement of claims
• Work closely with Accounts team to ensure month end closing activities are completed accurately & on-time

Candidate Requirements:

• 3-5 years’ work experience in a corporate environment
• Communication skills: good command of spoken and written English.
• Ability to read and speak Arabic is preferable.
• Strong analytical skills
• Results-oriented individual with attention to detail
• Good interpersonal skills – ability to work across teams (internal and external)
• High level of proficiency in Excel – Pivot tables, Vlookup, formulae, excels template creation, formula evaluation, debugging excel formulas etc.
• Prior experience in SAP / ERP tools and Reporting tools like Business Objects / Business Intelligence etc.
• Past experience in purchasing / accounting / demand planning/ supply chain
• Accuracy in working with data & calculations
• Proactive & Good follow up skills
• Takes responsibility for completion within deadlines & ready to work hard
• Good team working & interaction skills
• Fast learner and good at Multi-tasking
• Ability to handle tough internal customers
• Ability to handle pressure

Education:

• Bachelor’s Degree