Job description
Role Overview
Supply Planner at Chalhoub Group. This role is based in the Middle East region, supporting the Group's luxury retail operations across fashion, beauty, jewellery, watches, eyewear, and art de vivre categories.
Company Overview
Chalhoub Group is a luxury retail company operating for over seven decades across the Middle East with a presence in LATAM. The Group manages a portfolio of over 10 owned brands and distributes over 400 international brands through more than 950 stores, online platforms, and mobile apps. The organization employs over 16,000 professionals across eight countries and is committed to innovation, sustainability, diversity, equity, and inclusion. Chalhoub Group is a member of the United Nations Global Compact, a signatory of the Women's Empowerment Principles, and has pledged to reach Net Zero by 2040.
Role Purpose
The Supply Planner defines and optimizes supply plans to maintain balanced inventory levels and ensure product availability. This role focuses on capacity planning, vendor collaboration, and monitoring key planning performance metrics to support the Group's omnichannel retail operations.
Key Responsibilities
Planning & Strategy
- Develop and drive supply planning and replenishment techniques regarding stock parameters and communicate results to relevant team members.
- Work closely with Demand Planners to understand expected Sales Forecasts and validate the optimum stock model to support those forecasts.
- Define strategies and processes to accommodate inventory returns, transfers, and stock depletion, and ensure inventory planning adjustments are made accordingly.
Supplier & Vendor Management
- Alert on supply constraints which are business critical and propose remedial action.
- Manage the specification and agreement of KPIs and SLAs with key suppliers.
Data & Systems Management
- Manage Supply related data with care to ensure the replenishment system is fed with the right information.
Supply Chain Optimization
- Partner with Group Logistics to manage transportation including optimizing supply chain, maintaining a distribution network, and challenging selected methods of transportation.
Performance Monitoring
- Monitor key planning KPIs, such as ISA (in stock availability) across all networks, DOI (Days of Inventory), OTIF (On-Time In-Full), GM, and allocation efficiency.
Qualifications & Experience
- Minimum 4 years of experience in supply planning with a Luxury Beauty or FMCG Business.
- Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Business Administration, or a related field.
Skills & Competencies
- Proficiency in supply planning tools, preferably Blue Yonder, and some experience in SAP.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities to manage supply plans effectively.
- Collaboration and communication skills to work with cross-functional teams and vendors.
- Attention to detail to maintain accuracy in planning and execution.
Additional Information
- Competitive benefits package includes healthcare, child education contribution, remote and flexible working policies, and exclusive employee discounts.
- Exposure to learning and development opportunities and internal mobility within the Group.
- Chalhoub Group is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion, welcoming all applicants regardless of gender, age, race, religion, national origin, or disability status.
- Assessments and interviews should be completed independently and without assistance from generative AI tools.