About My Role:

I am responsible for demand planning to ensure accurate forecasting, inventory management, and supply chain efficiency. My role requires strong analytical skills and a deep understanding of the food retail industry.

Our Mission:

To build a modern & professional supply chain that simplifies the lives of our store & logistics team members, helping them serve customers better. My part of the mission is to maintain great on shelf availability and optimum stock levels.

My Key Responsibilities:

• Embrace Change

Restless with the status quo, having a strong appetite to adopt and implement modern solutions to traditional methods. Enthusiastically embracing changes that improve the business for customers, shareholders and team members.

• Values & Code of Conduct

Consistently demonstrate and uphold the company’s values and code of conduct and follow internal regulation of EBS in all professional activities and interactions.

• Forecasting

Produce accurate demand forecasts using historical data, market trends, and sales insights. Utilising advanced analytics and demand planning software to analyse data and improve forecasting accuracy

• Inventory management

Ensure optimal inventory levels to meet customer demand while minimising excess stock and reducing waste.

• Performance monitoring

Track key performance indicators (KPIs) related to demand planning, availability and service levels and take corrective actions and prevent repeating errors. Escalate serious service exceptions to my manager in a timely manner

• Collaboration

Share ideas and suggest solutions to improve our demand planning processes with my manager and teammates.

Work closely with commercial, operations, logistics, suppliers and finance teams to align demand planning with business goals and solve daily operation issues.

Support my co-workers to deliver the results and follow up progress.

• Supplier collaboration

Collaborate with suppliers to ensure timely and efficient product availability and work with suppliers to identify and correct the root causes of service level failures.

• Manage my routine

Conduct my daily and weekly duty and routine on time to meet the standard performance matrix.

Competencies:

• Skills

Strong analytical and numerical reasoning.

Proficiency in working with large datasets, using tools like Excel, Power BI, or SQL.

Ability to generate actionable insights from data.

Knowledge of logistics and supply chain best practices.

Strong problem-solving abilities and attention to detail.

• Attributes

Resilient in the face of resistance to change

Agile in ways of thinking

Willingness to share knowledge

Team player who works well with others.

Confidence in the mission imperative.

Analytical mindset with a focus on continuous improvement.

• Experience

Minimum of 1 years of experience in supply chain management, logistics, or supplier management, preferably in the retail industry.

• Education 

Bachelor’s degree in supply chain management or business related.