KSA Planning Lead

KSA Planning Lead

What we do

At Kenvue, we realize the extraordinary power of everyday care. Built on over a century of heritage and rooted in science, we’re the house of iconic brands - including NEUTROGENA®, AVEENO®, TYLENOL®, LISTERINE®, JOHNSON’S® and BAND-AID® that you already know and love. Science is our passion; care is our talent.

Who We Are

Our global team is ~ 22,000 brilliant people with a workplace culture where every voice matters, and every contribution is appreciated. We are passionate about insights, innovation and committed to delivering the best products to our customers. With expertise and empathy, being a Kenvuer means having the power to impact millions of people every day. We put people first, care fiercely, earn trust with science and solve with courage – and have brilliant opportunities waiting for you! Join us in shaping our future–and yours.

Role reports to:

Head of Supply Chain KSA

Location:

Europe/Middle East/Africa, Saudi Arabia, Makkah, Jeddah

Work Location:

Fully Onsite

What you will do

Oversees supervision of finished goods inventory for sales warehouses, distribution centers, and factory mixing points to meet sales and distribution demand. Prioritizes workloads, monitors and adjusts daily work schedules, and distributes projects to ensure schedules are met. Create accurate demand forecasts for specific business unit(s) / product line(s). Monitors inventory levels, inventory positioning, and planned production and sales forecasts. Keeps track of inventories by developing and maintaining inputs to inventory system. May coordinates with traffic, production planning, and warehouse personnel to ensure appropriate routing, scheduling, and storing of goods. Examines internal capacity and review plan to align supply and demand to meet customer requirements.

Demand Planning lead is responsible of facilitating the end to end Sales & Operations Planning cycle in KSA to produce an unbiased and aligned demand plan for the rolling time horizon of 24 months. Also, he/she will be responsible to deliver on the availability, service and inventory health targets

Duties & Responsibilities

Forecasting and S&OP Management:

• Maintains and understands the sales data at different aggregation levels (Brands, Sub-brands, SKUs, variants, sizes, Distribution channels, demand groups and demand locations).

• Gathers information and document assumptions based on historical data, business intelligence gathered from sales, marketing, finance, retailers, and other sources.

• Facilitates parts of the S&OP process to gain consensus and alignment with all stakeholders involved in the process to arrive at one unbiased aligned number, practicing the IBP concepts.

• Analyses gaps (financials, capacities, inventory etc.) from unit based plans to drive alignment between business functions.

Risk management and Inventory Health:

• Works with the KSA team to identify, manage and communicate supply criticalities to all stakeholders outside the 3month horizon. Collaborates with the regional supply planners to assign the right priority and action plan to minimize such supply risks.

• Co-owns with RSP inventory DOS and stock cover for his/her assigned products category / inventory location.

• Performs SLOB risk analysis and initiate action plans with marketing/commercial team to keep SLOB provisions at minimum level.

• Analyses gaps (financials, capacities, inventory etc.) from unit based plans to drive alignment between business functions.

• Supervise planning of Co-pack activities and work closely with hub operations team to execute these plans.

New Products Introduction:

• Locally owns NPI project management from supply chain point of view, collaborating with regional supply planners, regulatory, marketing, commercial and operations team to ensure successful on time NPI launch up the point that is handed over to OPEX.

• Manages Phase in Phase Out (PIPO) changes at SKU level and communicate changes to all stakeholders.

• Collaborates with Data Governance to ensure product codes are created in the system at the right time

Main performance measures (Performance Goals)

Directly Responsible Individual for:

• S&OP process adherence

• Forecast Accuracy (MAPE and BIAS) and completeness

End-to-end shared KPIs:

• NTS Delivery

• UFR

• Inventory DOS

• Analyses gaps (financials, capacities, inventory etc.) from unit based plans to drive alignment between business functions.

Required Qualifications

• A minimum of a bachelor’s Degree is required in area related to Supply Chain, Industrial Engineering, Business Management

• Relevant experience in Supply chain

• S&OP, IBP and Inventory management experience

• Strong Planning modeling skills

• FMCG industry is preferred

• Advanced English is preferred (Arabic is a plus)

• Min 5 years expreciance in Supply chain/planning

Desired Qualifications

• Experience with systems mainly SAP / Microsoft office / Business Intelligence Tools

• Strong communication and presentation skills

• Strong team leadership and team development

• The ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts and draw valid conclusions

• The ability to identify, recommend and implement process improvements

• KPI managment (Forecast Accurecy, OTIF, Inventory, Cost)

• Cross functional collaboration (Sales, Finanace, Operation)

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