Demand Forecasting & Planning Manager – Starbucks – Job Vacancy – Kuwait

Alshaya Group – Kuwait

• Job Location:- Kuwait
• Company:- Alshaya Group
• Education:- As Mentioned
• Nationality:- Any Nationality
• Gender:- Male / Female
• Number of Vacant Positions:- Not Mentioned
• Salary:- Negotiable
• Job Type:- As mentioned
• Experience:- As mentioned in the Description

About Alshaya Group

Alshaya Group is a powerful family-claimed endeavor, first settled in Kuwait in 1890. With a predictable record of development and development, Alshaya Group is one of the world’s driving image establishment administrators, offering an unrivaled decision of very much cherished global brands to clients.

Alshaya Group’s portfolio reaches out across MENA, Turkey and Europe, with huge number of stores, bistros, eateries and relaxation objections, as well as a developing on the web and computerized business.

Working in different areas including Design, Food, Wellbeing and Excellence, Drug store, Home Goods and Relaxation and Diversion, Alshaya Group partners are joined by a pledge to genuinely convey extraordinary client care and brand encounters.

New, current and significant, Alshaya’s continually developing portfolio mirrors the decisions and way of life of its clients. From leader stores and cafés in notoriety shopping centers, through to neighborhood bistros, drive-through eateries and on the web, Alshaya Group brings clients the brands they love in the spots they need to be. Brands like Starbucks, H&M, Mothercare, Debenhams, American Hawk Suppliers, P.F. Chang’s, The Cheesecake Industrial facility, The Body Shop, M.A.C, Victoria’s Confidential, Boots, Stoneware Animal dwellingplace and KidZania.

Job – Demand Forecasting & Planning Manager – Starbucks

Job Description:

The job holder will be responsible for demand forecasting and planning activities associated with stores and products for entire Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. The job holder will require leadership skills, forecast modelling and analytical skills, and possess sound communication skills.

Functional responsibilities

• Develop demand forecast, incorporating current and accurate market information that allows the company to correctly predict customer demand and provide the overall business and its supply chain with the appropriate information to plan how to meet that customer demand
• Develop demand forecasts (operational and strategic forecasts) at multiple levels of aggregation for multiple time horizons using deepest level of granular data (e.g., SKU, product, store type, store operating hours, store location, channel etc.)
• Review historical sales trends, research demand drivers, leverage internal and external data sets (including but not limited to seasonality, and variability), preparing various statistical models to come up with forecast
• Leverage the demand forecast to come up with demand plan for fulfilment centers (FC) across MENA. The demand plan will be used by supply & replenishment team for translating into optimal orders and replenishing FCs regularly
• Monitor, and report essential changes to forecasts and so demand plan, business strategies, and budgets, support company management with risk assessment and activities to help mitigate the risk and propose and implement solutions that accurately improve demand forecasts

Process and system responsibilities

• Develop foundational processes, either directly or collaboratively with other supply chain sub-functional leads, ranging, but not limited to, from data collection, data cleansing, data structuring, and products lifecycle
• Carrying of business process development and support implementation of demand forecasting and planning software and maintaining the same, while developing and sharpening quick tools to develop demand
• Evaluate and monitor forecast accuracy, at different levels (e.g. stores or FC etc), periodically to identify problematic areas and take corrective actions to maintain accuracy at target levels. Responsible to deliver forecasts accuracy targets that drives appropriate inventory levels across supply chain
• Closely coordinate and communicate operations’ action plans with supply & replenishment planning and constantly engage with various internal and external stakeholders ensuring alignment in lead times, inventory days, write-off plans and inventory aging.
• Regular reporting to Senior and Executive management of the demand forecast, demand plan and KPIs (e.g. forecast error, trends, bias etc.) and collaborating with supply & replenishment teams to help achieve business KPI’s.

Cross-functional responsibilities:

• Utilize a collaborative and consensus approach by working with operations, marketing & category, finance, logistics and various supply chain sub-functions to obtain current and accurate information for demand forecasts and demand plan and reconcile variances and refine the forecast model
• Manage monthly demand review process with key stakeholders for all markets ensuring business insights and sales plan are captured and translated into the demand forecast and demand plan
• Continuously focusses to improve the overall business planning and S&OP processes and develops actionable plans to improve its maturity across all aspects (capability, process improvements and automation). Support Annual Business Planning/monthly forecasting process by driving volume and value forecasting

Partners responsibilities:

• Responsible to lead the demand forecasting and planning team. Leads, motivates, train and support the team in taking extra mile and collaborate with other teams
• Provide leadership and engage and develop team members in a high-performance environment

Job Qualifications:

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