Market Planning Manager – Transmed - Lebanon

Transmed is looking for highly motivated and experienced Market Planning Manager. This job requires a lot of autonomy on day to day management of procurement activities but within targeted levels of inventories. Any deviations from targets should be shared with upper management and correction action plans developed to address the deviations. The candidate must be ready to work in a very challenging procurement environment due to increasing number of suppliers, product introductions, promotions and initiatives which require meeting contradictory objectives of high availability with minimal excess stocks.

Description
- Set the inventory bogey levels needed to protect Company sales targets
- Ensure that bogey levels are maintained at all times
- Ensure that remnant and excess inventories are kept at minimum level by taking swift actions with CBD and suppliers to reduce same to target levels
- Ensure product replenishment pipelines are prepared efficiently and submitted on time to all suppliers
- Ensure that placed orders are properly followed upon to minimize availability issues due to delays in supply
- Ensure forecast accuracy is continuously improved to meet Company target
- Implement corrective action plans to increase customer satisfaction
- Provide full support to multifunctional team through ensuring full participation of Customer service team in customer meetings to maximize efficiency
- Plan storage space and racking expansions to ensure storage space meets forecasted product arrivals

Qualifications
- University Graduate in Business / Economics / Finance / Industrial Engineering / Logistics from leading university and preferably with a master’s degree in supply chain management or any related field
- 10 years of experience in a similar highly professional FMCG environment with financial analysis exposure
- PC skills in Microsoft Office
- Proven record of planning, managing and controlling a similar environment

Competencies
- Excellent leadership skills that will envision, enable and energize the Logistics team
- Excellent teamwork, collaboration and communication skills
- Excellent initiative, ownership and ability to provide innovative solutions

Each application should include the following
- Job title for the role you are applying for in subject header of the email – TMMPM1
- CV saved as a Word document and sent to: hr@transmed.com
Only short listed candidates will be contacted.