Sr. Specialist Demand Planning

Company Description

• Talabat is part of the Delivery Hero Group, the world’s pioneering local delivery platform, our mission is to deliver an amazing experience—fast, easy, and to your door.
• We operate in around 65 countries worldwide.
• Headquartered in Berlin, Germany.
• Delivery Hero has been listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange since 2017 and is part of the MDAX stock market index.
• **Job Description*** **Demand Forecasting and Planning : Ability to use past sales data, market trends, promotions and category insights to develop a highly accurate forecast for the Import Shipments portfolio**
• **Imports Shipments Planning: Ability to plan forecasts/stocks/inbound containers for a 3/6 month forward pipeline to maintain constant availability with adequate Stock Cover, utilizing all available data sources and alignment processes with cross functional teams.**
• **Import Shipment Clearance Process: Act as subject matter expert and drive process governance and adherence for imports shipment clearing process with external/internal stakeholders.**
• **Work closely with Finance/Commercial/Operations teams to ensure zero demurrages, minimized claims and expedited/time bound clearing process is in place. Ability to monitor and drive continuous process improvement to reduce costs. Ensure new product sourcing follows internal guidelines/lead times and are planned accordingly.**
• **Work with respective Country Supply chain teams on projects and initiatives to drive process improvements.**
• **Work closely with commercial/operations teams on key projects and initiatives.**
• **Reporting and Communication: Prepare and present demand planning reports and dashboards. Use BI analytics to automate reporting processes.**
• **Implement standardized supply chain metrics and processes for all MENA countries.**
• **Inventory Management: Ability to plan and drive DOH policy for all MENA countries with end to end mapping of supply chain processes.**
• **Work with respective country team to improve Forecasting accuracy and availability of SKUs in store**
• **Monitoring inventory processes to ensure Shrinkage is minimized while optimizing on DOH.**
• **Promotions Planning: Work closely with the commercial team to define metrics and processes for promotions planning in the supply chain.**
• **DC Management: Monitor daily and weekly DC KPIs and share with Local country head and drive the improvement in operations. Establish and ensure compliance about processes and Operations in Warehouse**
• **Supplier Management: Able to hold discussions with external stakeholders on availability and fill rate and drive improvements.**
• **Project Management: Ability to work on various projects with a wide variety of stakeholders, managing project timelines and team expectations effectively.**
• **S&OP: Ability to facilitate and drive cross functional teams, identify gaps to forecast and business plans, identify key blockers and be able to resolve with country teams.**
• **Qualifications** **What Did We Order?**
• **You have at least 5+ years hands-on experience in Supply Chain Planning, Forecasting, Import**
• **Shipments, DC Planning, Inventory Management & System implementations**
• **You come with an experience in retail groceries, ideally with focus on Ultra Fresh Analytical skills, big data manipulation + advanced ease with excel**
• **You have experience in forecasting models and suppliers scheduling**
• **You have experience in Imports Shipments, Incoterms.**
• **You are very detail-oriented, structured and know how to prioritize - you consider yourself as someone who delivers solutions and not bottlenecks to be solved.**
• **You have good stakeholder management skills and are a self starter with an entrepreneurial mindset.**
• **You are someone energized by the unknown and look forward to learning each day on the job**
• **You have excellent analytical and communication skills, and always like to be hands-on with several tools**