Job Summary/Main Purpose
Manager - Planning is responsible for the demand, material and supply plans that enable the Supply Chain organization to meet customer service and total delivered cost objectives. Having high interaction and influence with cross-functional teams to ensure that we support the Organization\'s objective . monitoring department\'s budget, inventory, and production schedules. Maintained optimally efficient inventory of production materials.The goal is to manage the entire planning cycle so as to enhance business continuity , ensure sustainability and customer satisfaction.Key Responsibilities & Key Result AreasBusiness Leadership

• Created planning processes and generated reports about new programs, plans, and procedures. Managed all general planning issues for the department and reviewed development proposals to ensure compliance with codes and regulations.
• Provide leadership and mentoring for a team of Demand Planners & Supply Planners to ensure right career development is prioritized and focused on functional competency improvements.
• Execute plans to achieve and exceed customer service, working capital, waste, and forecast accuracy targets.
• Collaborate, build and maintain relationships with key commercial partners (Sales, marketing, finance, deployment, etc.) and ensure alignment that provides an accurate forecast for downstream planning.
• Collaborate, build and maintain relationships with key functional partners (Procurement, Technical and Production, etc.) to partner on opportunities in the supply plan.
• Drive organization Continuous Excellence behaviors within the team including root cause analysis.
• Implement recommended standardization and be a change across demand, material, production and supply planning.
• Monitor all department budgets and manage all inventories continuously and assist all team members to manage all demand plans, material plans, supply plans and production schedules.
• Manage Distribution Requirements Planning / Replenishment while Determines and ensures execution of deployment strategies for Finished Goods i.e. push vs pull
• Manage Master Production Scheduling (MPS) by Creates and understands rough cut capacity plan (RCCP)
• Manage Production Scheduling that Influences the safety-stock holding of suppliers for Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) etc
• Managing Inventory Planning, Managing Materials Requirements Planning (MRP), Managing Material Call Off
• Manage Agreeing Constrained Supply Plan
• Maintain metrics and analyze data to assess performance and implement improvements
• Comply with laws, regulations and ISO requirements

People Leadership

• Ensure that the required initial and continuing training of the department personnel is carried out and adapted according to the needs of the Organization in coordination with HR and training
• Supervise, coach and train department staff on key technical inputs
• Define an optimum organization structure for the function, so that resources are optimally utilized and communications can be executed in an efficient manner.
• Review and ensure that operational and administrative practices, policies and procedures across the division are being followed by all employees

Core Competency

• In terms of competency you are highly result oriented with strong sense of accountability & ownership.
• You must have excellent understanding of Pharmaceutical Business coupled with strong influencing skills.
• Having an Analytical mind with ability to think diversely and understand the big picture of the Organization and must be tough negotiator to ensure Company interest in every possible transactions
• Ability to work under pressure, plan personal workload effectively and delegate.
• Motivated and highly organized professional and should be able to juggle competing priorities.
• High level of integrity and professionalism.
• Ability to understand new issues quickly and make wise decisions. Ability to inspire confidence and create trust, proven skills in managing staff and ability to build and support effective teams.
• Must possess the understanding on how to align resources and manage others to achieve desired results.
• Must be open and collaborative in management & leadership style and must be comfortable working in an environment where ideas are shared and challenged.
• Strong communication, interpersonal, presentation and decision skills required
• Must have a solution centric mind to understand issues and solve them within a stipulated time frame, ability to understand new issues quickly and make wise decisions.
• Strong presentation skills, able to explain concepts concisely and accurately
• Able to develop strong, cooperative relationships with department heads

Key Experiences / Functional Knowledge Requirements:

• Bachelor\'s Degree either in Supply Chain Management or Logistics or Business Administration or any other related field.
• MBA in Operation Management is highly preferred
• Certified Planning Professional or any other advanced certification in Demand Planning or Supply Planning is Prefferred
• Must have at least 10-12 years\' experience in the Planning / Supply Chain/ logistics domain in similar industry
• Should have handled similar role in the past for better fitment in the role, which is a mandatory prerequisites
• Fluency in both Arabic addded advantage .

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