Category Demand Planning Coordinator

**About the role**

Support the Demand Planning team by undertaking specific and ad-hoc administrative tasks as required. As well as provide administrative support for planning and replenishment activities for a product area against agreed range plans and to identify and action agreed opportunities in order to optimise sales, stockholding and profit.

In this position, the responsibilities include, but not limited to, the following:

- Support the Planning team in ensuring that key stakeholders are updated on all replenishment activities up and down the supply stream.
- Resolve quarantines and locked stock issues by raising orders for agreed suppliers.
- Action systems maintenance activities like product attribute maintenance as directed by the Planning team to ensure the right products are ordered.
- Undertake tasks relating to replenishment and stock management, including placing timely purchase orders, reviewing lead time and delivery timeframe with vendors.
- Communicate and correspond professionally with suppliers and internal stakeholders at the appropriate contact level.
- Prepare well-structured, informative data analysis excel reports as per business needs.
- Flag and report any risks to stock availability and sales to mitigate loss of sales.
- Follow-up with other departments to ensure that requests are carried out and activities are coordinated.
- React and investigate Retail queries and provide recommended action points.
- Support the team to produce and arrive at commercially acceptable forecasts for vendors to support the sales opportunity of the business
- Undertake specific and ad-hoc administrative tasks as required.
- Perform other department duties related to his/her position as directed by the Head of the Department.

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**Qualifications**:
**About you**

Essential
- Experience of planning, organising and prioritising
- Experience of working within high-volume retail - confidence with a large range of stock-keeping unit
- Strong excel skills with a willingness to develop further
- Basic experience of demand planning and or merchandising experience, either in a central function or in a retail environment
- Outstanding communication skills to establish and build successful relationships with all stakeholders.
- Personal initiative and drive.

Preferred
- Experience within the travel retail business.
- Experience in multi-site operations or sales management environment.
- Awareness of targets looking for stock optimisation opportunities.

**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.