Job Location : Muscat, Oman (Please apply only if you are open to relocation)

Industry/Client : FMCG Distribution Company

Experience Range : 3 to 5 years

Education Requirement : Post Graduate and minimum of 3 to 5 years of experience in FMCG or E-Commerce environment

Job Objective : Drive Inventory Planning balancing Financial, Category and Supply goals within the Organization enabling most optimal buying to maximize In Stock % and reduce OOS% for FMCG Distribution business thereby having positive impact on Customer Fill Rate

Principal Accountabilities :

1) Forecast validation / taking sign offs from Business Heads on promotionally planning and NPI forecast

2) Build base files with historical data, support demand planner with Inventory visibility

3) Define Agency wise In-stock% and OOS% - Define Inventory norm Agency wise, generate POs

4) Liaise with External Business Partner POC to understand pricing changes / NPI / track supply against pending POs

5) Create Product Master Codes / initiate local co-pack for promotional planning

6) Liaise with internal Sales / Finance stakeholders to provide visibility on Branch wise inventory

7) Owner of Inter-Warehouse Inventory transfers

8) Owner of Import documentation / clearances 

9) Define Supplier Fill Rate and Customer Fill Rate

10) Work with Logistics to improve picking / auto replenishment / pallet occupancy to improve CFR

11) Ability to stay unbounded and do not restrict himself to the Job Description

12)Taking up ad-hoc projects supplemented with existing work responsibilities to demonstrate capability

KPI's :

1) Forecast Accuracy - RCA in Demand / Supply issue buckets

2) Agency wise In Stock% and OOS% - track and root cause analysis for deviations

3) Exit Inventory days actual against norm - RCA for deviation

4) ABC Analysis of Inventory - measure improvements made in Customer Fill Rate

5) Warehouse Occupancy over plan - RCA for deviation, corrective actions / Ad-hoc analysis / business reporting

Job Specifications :

1) An analytical work style 

2) Rational decision-making, negotiating and influencing skills 

3) Ability to work effectively independently - accountability, initiative, integrity and maturity are pre- requisites 

4) Ability to deal with large data sets coming out disparate systems and spreadsheets of several distributed teams 

5) Strong business acumen to convert a number analysis into a business story and having strong ability to articulate  

build and fortify a strong data model by going in depth and understanding where opportunities are and chasing them with innovative ideas

6) Must be innovative and detail-oriented with strong self conviction

7) Ability to work with minimum hand holding and defining the correct path for the stakeholders surrounding the business to achieve results

8) Customer first Approach in Solving any problems and ability to quantify the Risk to the Customer Metrics for any decision or approach

9) Working knowledge of MS Excel - advanced user, Macros / modeling in MS Excel

10) Working knowledge of R - good to have / not mandatory.

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