Manager Catering Inventory

Job title
- Manager Catering Inventory & LogisticsRef #
- 227606Location
- Qatar - DohaJob family
- Corporate & Commercial Closing date: 30-Nov-2025
- At Qatar Airways, we craft cutting
- edge inflight products, enhance passenger comfort, and drive innovation in aviation design.
- From concept to launch, our Product Development and Design (PDD) Team collaborates with industry leaders to create products that set new standards in travel.
- If you are passionate about innovation and design, this is your chance to make a lasting impact in the aviation industry.
- Join our Product Development and Design Team that transforms ideas into reality and shape the future of airline experiences
- **About the Role**
- As the Manager Catering Inventory and Logistics, you will develop the Catering Services equipment supply and distribution strategy to ensure at all times that all items of catering and amenity equipment, including dry-stores and bonded items are available for operational use. Leads a team to deliver accurate forecasting, budgeting and logistics approaches and methodologies to ensure best value provisioning and delivery network wide whilst ensuring best practice governance and management of global inventory, storage and replenishment driving down cost and stock holdings.
- _ As part of your role, your responsibilities will be inclusive of, but not limited to the following:_
- Accountable for the development of the catering equipment, bond and beverage supply, stock holding and distribution strategy for all 800+ parts in the QR Catering inventory network wide.
- Leads and makes recommendation of trade-off decisions required to balance risks and cost of supply.
- Reviewing and developing the logistics strategy to ensure that the items are not carried around the world unnecessarily; creating an effective, cost-efficient solution that assists with fuel conservation.
- Builds and enacts a detailed warehousing strategy - accountable for the management of the outsourced equipment warehouse, ensuring the optimum levels of stock are maintained and champions the development of an in-house alternative warehouse solution.
- Developing and managing cross-organization relationships within QR to gain buy-in to supply decision and trade offs driving decision making in time critical processes.
- Planning and introduction of new stock items, including the timely withdrawal and disposal of obsolete stock.
- Works with Product Development & Design and across Catering Services on the development/specification of new products, carrying out trials and providing user feedback to assist with the decision-making process.
- Perform other department duties related to this position as directed by the Head of the Department.
**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.
- Together, everything is possible.-
- **Qualifications**:
**About You**
- Bachelor’s Degree or Equivalent with minimum 5 years of job-related experience in Logistics, Equipment, and Supplier management in a global environment.
- Experience in Forecasting, Reporting, Planning and Program/Project Management
- Mathematical and Statistical analysis skills is preferred
- Knowledgeable with Excel, Power BI, ERP and stock control systems is preferred
- Strong interpersonal, verbal communication and presentation skills (Fluent in English both written and verbal) and able to work in a multicultural team environment
- Managerial skills - strong mentoring and coaching skills. Ability to train and develop and foster teamwork among team members.
**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 a place where your ambition will know no boundaries, and be part of a truly global community.
- **How to apply**- **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.