Job Brief

• The Demand Planner will be responsible for developing, managing, and executing effective supply and replenishment plans aligned with sales forecasts and business strategies across all the warehouses in Nigeria. This role is critical in optimizing stock allocation, load factor planning, and inventory health, ensuring timely product availability, and supporting cross-functional coordination with Sales, Warehousing, and Procurement.

Job Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain a rolling inventory plan based on sales forecast, historical trends, and real-time market input.
• Prepare and manage load factor planning to maximize dispatch efficiency across PAN Nigeria.
• Allocate SKUs across all warehouse locations based on region-wise sales velocity, shelf life, and projected demand.
• Track and analyze TO raised vs TO GRN, LPO vs GRN, and service levels (CDC and Regional WHs) daily, and share a Daily MIS.
• Coordinate with procurement and warehousing teams to ensure timely and accurate inbound stock movement.
• Work closely with the Sales Team to validate forecasts and adjust plans in real-time.
• Conduct monthly demand review meetings.
• Lead initiatives for inventory balancing and minimize stock-outs or overstock scenarios.
• Monitor and report near-expiry and non-moving SKUs at all warehouse locations.
• Raise alerts and coordinate SKU liquidation or reverse movement.
• Ensure compliance with handling short-shelf-life products.
• Generate and share dashboards including TO vs GRN, LPO vs GRN, Daily service levels, Stock ageing and expiry reports.
• Recommend improvements in planning tools, processes, or formats.
• Liaise with Logistics, Sales, and Warehousing.
• Ensure all stock movement plans are cost-effective, feasible, and tracked against KPIs.

Education & Experience:

• Bachelor\’s Degree in Supply Chain Management, Business, Engineering or related field (MBA preferred)
• Associate Member of Certified Institute of Warehousing and Materials Management or any SCM Certification/ Demand Planning Certification
• Good Working knowledge in MS Office (Excel / PowerPoint/ Word/ Outlook)
• Minimum of 5-8 years’ cognate experience as a Supply Chain Manager working at a Food & Beverages, Home & Personal Care and Warehouse
• Strong understanding of Demand Planning, load optimization and stock allocation.
• Experienced managing a team
• Proficient understanding of the fundamental concepts, practices and procedures of Supply Chain, Material Management, Warehouse Management and forecasting.
• Hands on experience with SCM software and databases
• Knowledge of ERP is desirable (SAP, Oracle Netsuite)

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