Demand Planner (Large Importer)

About our client :

• Founded in 1991 and growing ever since to become the Leader in the industry in Egypt but rather for the entire region, extending to reach successful regional and global deals.
• Delivers the best efficient service standards to its customers in the Egyptian market as well as the Arab world for which it earned its excellent reputation resulting into an array of global deals;
• The official sole supplier for Global products and brands for Major hotels like the Four Seasons Hotels & Resorts worldwide based on the Global Deal agreement between and the Four Seasons Head Office.

Your role includes:

• Forecast Sales plan with analysis of sales trend regularly.
• Support product manager and sales director with updating sales progress, price.
• Provide product manager and sales director with sell out data vs sell out forecasting.
• Analysis for past sales achievements and reasoning for issue.
• Predicted inventory need and maintained stock requirements.
• Identify Potential storage and initiate Actions to ensure availability of stock parts.
• Drive consensus with key accounts to ensure account level sell in,sell out , channel inventory and promotional inputs are meeting expectations.
• Collect and analyze weekly sell out data, purchase orders, KPI results, etc.
• Participate in monthly sales and operations planning "S&OP" meetings to review monthly forecast that was planned in order to come up with future sales plan.
• Ensure marketing strategies and programs are accurately represented in the forecast.
• Analyzes the variance and initiates appropriate corrective actions.
• Communicates customer expectations to respective departments