Grandiose is a home-grown Retail chain giving its customers a different experience for shopping and dining in the UAE. The fast-growing premium grocery retailer is looking for a dynamic Demand Planner for our central team in Dubai.
Brief Description:
A Demand Planner specialises in carrying out research and analysis to predict consumer demand so as to manage inventory and guide supply chain operations. This role engages in a variety of tasks such as creating and maintaining forecast models for customers, as well as incorporating business intelligence and forecasting information gathered from other areas such as sales, marketing, finance, development, and supply. A demand planner leads the discussion each month for meeting customer demand with these counterparts in the organization.
Responsibilities:
· Collecting data from internal and external sources on factors known to affect demand.
· Analyzing sales, stock, and other data statistics
· Reviewing historical sales trends
· Modeling the data to forecast future demand.
· Obtaining information on occurrences that could impact demand like promotions and production delays.
· Gathering updates on vendors, distributors, sales, and other stakeholders that can affect demand.
· Developing demand forecasts at multiple levels of aggregation for multiple time horizons.
· Coordinating cross-functional research activities to reconcile significant variances.
· Interacting with sales, marketing, and customer finance to understand demand forecast drivers.
· Using and maintaining the demand planning software.
· Providing input to the supply planning organization in developing inventory strategies on existing items, new products, and product phase-outs.
· Refining systems and methods to improve forecasts in order to better anticipate customer needs.