Associate Demand Planning

Job title: Associate Demand Planning

Company: talabat


Job description: Company DescriptionWhen you think of food delivery in the MENA region, we’d be pretty surprised if talabat didn’t pop into your mind first! Since delivering our first order in Kuwait in 2004, we’ve grown quite a lot over the past 17 years.Today, we deliver hundreds of millions of food orders, grocery items and other products per year, to our customers in nine countries throughout the region with more than 3,000+ employees! Our food delivery business works with over 27,000 brands and almost 50,000 branches, while our q-commerce concept, talabat mart, now delivers groceries to customers in Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Oman Qatar, Iraq and the UAE in 30 minutes or less!Our philosophy is to make sure we do what is right for our ecosystem – our customers, our partners, our people, our riders, and the communities in which we operate. Our #techforgood program allows our customers a safe and convenient way to contribute to important causes in their community through donating to local and international charities directly on talabat with a focus on food insecurity in the region. Since its inception in 2020, we have facilitated the donation of well over 1 million meals to those in need, as well as donated over $1.5 million to charity with the help of our partners and customers. talabat is part of Delivery Hero, the global leader in online food delivery and q-commerce.As Talabat continues to grow and keep ahead of the curve we have launched our very own end-end grocery service across the MENA region: tMartJob DescriptionRole Summary
We’re looking for a Associate Demand Planner to join the team and focus on growing our own Grocery Store “tMart”, which is the region’s first cloud store concept offering 30-minute delivery of groceries at competitive prices. The service has expanded rapidly across Kuwait, UAE, Qatar, Jordan, Bahrain, Egypt, Oman and Iraq!What’s On Your Plate?

• Supporting in creation of POs for replenishment and maintaining availability in the stores and warehouse, data management.
• Creation of PO’s based on the demand forecast in a timely manner set by the lead for maintaining availability in the stores, keeping track of receipt of POs
• Support in ensuring the correct inventory at the stores (No OOS or OVS) by analysing the current inventory status and updating the ordering parameters. Daily monitoring of stock movement, running report of daily inventory adjustment
• Support to lead in Managing stock amounting to KD 1.5M while ensuring issuance of ~ 1,750 POs weekly for stores and DC
• Fresh products replenishment in coordination with Supplier & store supervisors
• Preparing the key reports such as availability, lost sales, stock cover and service levels reports
• Monitoring & Reporting – Close to Expiry Risk Management and mitigation, Overstock and slow moving stock planning
• Using various system tools to generate data and prepare purchase orders. IM, PO Tool, Tableau, Looker
• Coordinate with store supervisors and admins to ensure smooth workflow

QualificationsWhat Did We Order?

• Past experience in FMCG in demand planning and replenishment in a must
• Data and detail oriented
• Excellent analytical and communication skills, and always hands-on with several tools
• Ability to interact/guide the senior-level executives and can manage the expectations of multiple stakeholders
• Tech Savvy
• Excel Skills

Expected salary:

Location: Muscat

Job date: Tue, 18 Mar 2025 23:07:44 GMT

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