Category Demand Planning Lead Officer
5 days ago
**About the role**
The Category Demand Planning Lead Officer (Qatar Duty Free) will work in conjunction with the category management teams to identify and action all planning, purchasing and replenishment activities and opportunities to optimise sales, stock holding and profit for a specific department/category. You will pro-actively support the Planning Manager in driving the Supply Chain Strategy for the Category on a daily basis, as well as supporting other members of the team on specific projects. You will own a sub category to manage a group of vendors or products, owning the planning process end to end as well as promote and drive evolution in the Demand Planning activities to deliver improvement and efficiencies within the operation.
Key Accountabilities include, but are not limited to:
- Efficiently manage the stock intake and replenishment for either a department or selection of brands in line with set KPIs
- Forecast and plan in conjunction with the suppliers to ensure maximum availability
- Manage vendors and articles for a sub-category to own the process end-to-end
- Management and maintenance of the replenishment systems to optimise stock management
- Build professional business relationships with procurement, retail, space planning, suppliers and logistics at the appropriate contact level.
- Monitor and report on important changes in sales forecasts, budgets, and business strategies.
- Propose and implement solutions to improve demand forecast accuracy.
- Utilize forecasting software and exception reporting to reduce forecast error and achieve category forecast accuracy targets
- Develop effective forecast models based on industry trends and demand patterns.
- Analyze key metrics and report to management team and key stakeholders with clear data-driven conclusions
- React to supply-related risks and activities including backorders/obsolescence, vendors’ performance and product shortages with extracting action plans to implement
- Responsible for hitting targets as set and manage exit strategies
- Plan promotions and new lines, raising orders and supervision / checking of orders raised by Coordinator
- Agree promotional orders quantities with suppliers
- Use, create and anlayze stock/sales reports to improve efficiency and maximize stock availability
- Work closely with the Retail, Space and Marketing teams to further drive business and operational improvements.
- Identifying future risks and opportunities in line with the QDF business growth ambitions and proposing mitigation actions.
- Collaborate with IT team to implement effective forecasting systems to optimize QDF supply chain
**Be part of an extraordinary story**
Your skills. Your imagination. Your ambition. Here, there are no boundaries to your potential and the impact you can make. You’ll find infinite opportunities to grow and work on the biggest, most rewarding challenges that will build your skills and experience. You have the chance to be a part of our future, and build the life you want while being part of an international community. Our best is here and still to come. To us, impossible is only a challenge.
Join us as we dare to achieve what’s never been done before.
**Qualifications**:
**About you**
- Bachelors Degree or equivalent with minimum 4 years of job-related experience required; OR
- High School Qualification or Diploma or equivalent with minimum 5 years relevant experience
Job-specific skills & experience:
- Experience of Planning, organising and prioritising in the Retail/Manufacturing industry
- Excellent computer literacy - particularly Excel
- Numerical analytical skills - able to understand and interpret data and drive resolution of critical problems, while under pressure
- Commincation skills - able to summarize information and present to leadership
- Administration skills - able to pay good attention to details
- Personal initiative and drive
- Some experience of merchandising/replenishment systems - ideally Microsoft AX, SAP or Oracle
- Experience of working within high-volume retail - able to work with a large range of SKUs.
- OTB/WSSI planning experience
- Experienced in using planning software and data systems.
- Proven experience in forecasting, demand planning, inventory management and working with replenishment systems.
- Outstanding communication skills to establish and build successful relationships with all stakeholders
**About Qatar Airways Group**
Our story started with four aircraft. Today, we deliver excellence across 12 different businesses coming together as one. We’ve grown fast, broken records and set trends that others follow. We don’t slow down by the fear of failure. Instead, we dare to achieve what’s never been done before. So whether you’re creating a unique experience for our customers or innovating behind the scenes, every person contributes to our proud story. A story of spectacular growth and determination.
Now is the time to bring your best ideas and passion to
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