Supply Planner – Faces – Jeddah

INSPIRE | EXHILARATE | DELIGHT

For over six decades, Chalhoub Group has been a partner and creator of luxury experiences in the Middle East. The Group, in its endeavour to excel as a hybrid retailer, has reinforced its distribution and marketing services with a portfolio of eight owned brands and over 300 international brands in the luxury, beauty, fashion, and art de vivre categories. More recently, the Group expanded its expertise into new categories of luxury watches, jewellery, and eyewear.

Every step at Chalhoub Group is taken with the customer at heart. Be it constantly reinventing itself or focusing on innovation to provide luxury experiences at over 750+ experiential retail stores, online and through mobile apps, each touch point leads to delighting the customer.

Today, Chalhoub Group stands for 14,000 skilled and talented professionals across seven countries, whose cohesive efforts have resulted in the Group being ranked third in the Middle East and first in Saudi Arabia as a Great Place to Work®.

To keep the innovation journey going, the Group has set up “The Greenhouse”, which is not just an innovation hub, but also an incubator space and accelerator for start-ups and small businesses in the region and internationally. This is just one of the several initiatives taken by the Group to reinvent itself, catalysed by forward thinking and future-proofing. The Group has also been embedding sustainability at the core of its business strategy with a clear commitment towards people, partners and the planet, and by being a member of the United Nations Global Compact Community and signatory of the Women’s Empowerment Principles.

What you’ll be doing  

 Run the procurement plan and the execution of the purchase orders. The use of sales forecasts, and other business information from Demand Planner, Sales and Marketing are key inputs to validating supply demand and stock parameters to optimize the stock while maximizing the Service level.

• Develop and Apply supply planning and replenishment techniques regarding stock parameters and communicate results to relevant team members
• Work closely with Demand Planners to understand the expected Sales Forecasts, and validate the optimum stock model to support those
• Alert on supply constraints which are business critical and propose remedial action
• Manage the specification and agreement of KPIs and SLAs with key suppliers
• Manage Supply related data with care to ensure the replenishment system is fed with the right information
• Partner with Group Logistics to manage the transportation including optimising fleets, maintaining a distribution network, challenging selected methods of transportation
• Define strategies and processes to accommodate inventory returns, transfers and stock depletion, and ensure inventory planning adjustments are made accordingly
• Participate to cross-verticals Project to reinforce the Supply Planning processes of the group

What you’ll need to succeed  

• Knowledge in supply planning techniques and systems, and capable of delivering training initiatives
• Comfortable with data management and analytics, and build learnings and action plans from it
• Able to work with cross-functional / organizational teams
• Able to participate to top-to-top risk mitigation discussions with key supply partners
• Minimum 3 years’ experience in procurement / supply planning. Experience in transportation management systems is a plus.

What we can offer you  

With us, you will turn your aspirations into reality.  We will help shape your journey through enriching experiences, learning and development opportunities and exposure to different assignments within your role or through internal mobility. Our Group offers diverse career paths for those who are extraordinary, every day.  

We recognise the value that you bring, and we strive to provide a competitive benefits package which includes health care, child education contribution, remote and flexible working policies as well as exclusive employee discounts.  

We Invite All Applicants to Apply

It Takes Diversity Of Thought, Culture, Background, Differing Abilities and Perspectives to truly Inspire, Exhilarate and Delight our customers. At Chalhoub Group, we are committed to inclusion and diversity.

We welcome all applicants to apply and be part of our exciting future. We ensure equal opportunity for all our applicants without regard to gender, age, race, religion, national origin or disability status.