Supply Chain Planning Manager

We are seeking a Supply Chain Planning Manager to lead demand planning, supply planning, inventory planning, replenishment planning, and S&OP coordination. The role will ensure product availability across stores, e-commerce, wholesale, export, and international markets while reducing excess stock, slow-moving inventory, and working capital exposure.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the monthly demand planning process across categories, SKUs, regions, stores, e-commerce, wholesale, export, and international channels.
• Develop statistical forecasts based on historical sales, seasonality, promotions, new launches, market trends, customer demand signals, and commercial input.
• Partner with Sales, Retail, Marketing, Finance, and Operations to validate demand assumptions and align forecasts with business plans.
• Monitor forecast accuracy and bias, identify root causes of variances, and implement corrective actions.
• Translate demand forecasts into supply plans, purchase plans, production plans, and replenishment plans.
• Lead or coordinate the S&OP process to align demand, supply, financial targets, capacity, risks, and management decisions.
• Ensure alignment between planned demand, supplier lead times, factory capacity, warehouse capacity, logistics constraints, and store requirements.
• Report supply risks, shortages, excess inventory, delayed shipments, and capacity constraints to senior management.
• Define inventory policies by SKU, category, and channel, including safety stock, reorder points, minimum and maximum levels, ABC classification, and service-level targets.
• Manage replenishment plans for stores, warehouses, e-commerce, franchise markets, and international branches.
• Reduce stock-outs while avoiding overstock, obsolescence, discontinued items, and slow-moving inventory.
• Support new store openings, seasonal peaks, campaigns, product launches, limited editions, gift sets, bundles, and promotional activities.
• Ensure launch readiness, including finished goods, packaging materials, testers, display materials, and allocation plans.
• Manage planning parameters in ERP and demand planning systems, including lead times, MOQ, order frequency, safety stock, forecast codes, and SKU lifecycle status.
• Develop dashboards covering forecast accuracy, stock availability, inventory days, ageing stock, replenishment performance, supply risks, and S&OP decisions.
• Improve planning tools, templates, master data, and reporting automation.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Business Administration, Industrial Engineering, Statistics, Operations, or a related field.
• Master’s degree or MBA is preferred.
• 6–9 years of experience in demand planning, supply planning, inventory planning, replenishment, or S&OP.
• Experience in retail, FMCG, cosmetics, luxury goods, perfumes, fashion, or consumer goods is highly preferred.
• Strong knowledge of forecasting, inventory management, S&OP, replenishment, ERP systems, and planning dashboards.
• Strong analytical skills and ability to work with large data sets.
• APICS CPIM/CSCP, IBF forecasting certification, or Lean Six Sigma certification is preferred.