Senior Demand & Supply Planner

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Senior Demand & Supply Planner

Date : 26 Aug 2025

Location : Dubai

Senior Demand & Supply Planner

Location : Dubai, UAE

Department : Supply Chain – S&OP

Reports to : S&OP Manager – Middle East

About the Role

This empowered role sits at the core of our Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) process, acting as a true partner to commercial, marketing, and finance teams. You will lead demand and supply planning across multiple luxury brands in the region, driving growth through forecast accuracy, inventory optimization, and flawless execution of launches.

This role is not just about numbers—it is about shaping decisions, influencing stakeholders, and delivering business impact in a dynamic, high-growth luxury market.

What You’ll Do

• Demand Planning & Forecast Leadership
• Lead the creation and ongoing refinement of an 18-month rolling demand forecast by brand, channel, and market, collaborating closely with cross-functional teams and leveraging sales, marketing, and retail data to drive consensus and improve forecast accuracy.
• Align demand planning with marketing and commercial strategies, ensuring successful new product launches and proactively anticipating demand shifts during key seasonal periods to optimize inventory and minimize obsolescence.
• Supply Planning & Inventory Management
• Develop and execute forward purchase and replenishment strategies to optimize service levels, manage inventory allocation across markets, and proactively address inventory risks.
• Collaborate with logistics to optimize freight mix, balancing cost efficiency with service quality.
• S&OP Process & Culture Leadership
• Lead the monthly S&OP cycle by preparing executive review inputs, providing data-driven insights, and aligning operational KPIs with financial outcomes to support fact-based decision-making.
• Serve as the key planning partner for assigned brands and markets, collaborating on budgeting, forecasting, and commercial strategies to ensure organizational alignment and a unified set of numbers.
• Drive continuous improvement in S&OP processes by standardizing templates, dashboards, and reporting, while fostering a culture of collaboration and accountability within the planning function.
• Operations & Analytics Enablement
• Execute all operational deliverables such as Purchase Order creation, Inventory management, consolidation and circulation of SC reports.
• Leverage SAP Integrated Business Planning (IBP-DP) to build statistical forecasts, quantify risks and opportunities, optimize working capital, and cascade top level S&OP decisions to SKU x Market x Channel granularity.
• Promote data-driven decision-making by leveraging Microsoft Power Platform tools to increase forecast, inventory, and service visibility and collaboration, while reducing manual processes and enhancing planning agility.

Key Outcomes & Success Measures (KPIs)

What You’ll Bring

Why Join Us?

At Shiseido Middle East, you’ll take on a role where supply chain planning is not only back-office but is business-critical. You will have the platform to :

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