Company DescriptionSince launching in Kuwait in 2004, talabat, the leading on-demand food and Q-commerce app for everyday deliveries, has been offering convenience and reliability to its customers. talabat's local roots run deep, offering a real understanding of the needs of the communities we serve in eight countries across the region.We harness innovative technology and knowledge to simplify everyday life for our customers, optimize operations for our restaurants and local shops, and provide our riders with reliable earning opportunities daily.At talabat, we foster an innovative environment where our talabaty employees can strive to create a positive impact across the region through the use of our platform. Whats 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 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 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
• 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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