Company Description
talabat is part of the Delivery Hero Group, the world’s pioneering local delivery platform, our mission is to deliver an amazing experience—fast, easy, and to your door. We operate in over 70+ countries worldwide. Headquartered in Berlin, Germany. Delivery Hero has been listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange since 2017 and is part of the MDAX stock market index.
Job Description
We’re looking for a Sr Specialist Demand Planning 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!

What’s On Your Plate?

• 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.

Qualifications

Please refer the Job description for details