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
Role Summary
We’re looking for a Demand Planning Manager to join the team and focus on growing our own Grocery Store “tMart”, which is the region’s first cloud store concept offering 30-minutedelivery 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?
● This role requires to organise 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 Qatar
● 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 regional 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
What Did We Order?
● 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
● User 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
Top Skills
What We Do
As the world’s leading local delivery platform, our mission is to deliver an amazing experience, fast, easy, and to your door. We operate in over 70+ countries worldwide, powered by tech but driven by people. As one of Europe’s largest tech platforms, we enable ambitious talent to deliver solutions that create impact within our ecosystem. We move fast, take action and adapt. No matter where you’re from or what you believe in, we build, we deliver, we lead. We are Delivery Hero
