Demand Planning Specialist

Role overview

Planning and inventory responsibilities

• Maintain and classify spare-parts portfolios across service, modernization, and critical-stock requirements; maintain part-family, equipment, and planning classifications.
• Develop forecasts for key markets including UAE and KSA; consolidate JDE consumption, stock, due-in, backlog, and excess and obsolete data.
• Apply ABC-XYZ analysis and translate operational needs into inventory and procurement requirements.
• Recommend and validate orders, review adjustments with Service teams, and submit final recommendations for approval before procurement placement.
• Define replenishment needs, safety stock, reorder points, and Min/Max levels; monitor shortages, excess, and slow-moving stock.
• Track open orders, supplier availability, lead times, shipments, delivery dates, backlogs, and stock-out risks; update planning parameters and maintain reporting visibility.
• Coordinate with warehouses and logistics to verify stock, investigate discrepancies, expedite replenishment, and resolve delivery bottlenecks.
• Lead monthly demand reviews, prepare dashboards, monitor KPIs and forecast accuracy, present corrective actions, and drive improvement.

Minimum qualifications

• 5–7 years of experience in demand planning for spare parts.
• Experience with ERP systems; JDE is preferred.
• Strong knowledge of forecasting, inventory planning and optimization, ABC-XYZ segmentation, safety stock, reorder points, Min/Max planning, and stock-cover management.
• Experience improving spare-parts forecast accuracy and planning parameters using statistical and analytical methods.
• Knowledge of lead-time management, critical-parts planning, excess and obsolete inventory control, and S&OP or demand-review processes.
• Advanced Excel, reporting, and planning-systems skills, including experience managing large inventory portfolios.
• Demand-planning automation, analytics, and visualization tools such as Baxter, Power BI, or similar solutions are preferred.
• Ability to work across countries and stakeholders, with strong communication and coordination skills.

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