Regional Inventory Manager/ Demand Planner

3 hours ago


City of Johannesburg Gauteng, South Africa Zeal HR Full time

**Introduction**:
Our international client, a mining products and services company based in Randburg, has an exciting opportunity for a Regional Inventory Manager/ Demand Planner and Analyst.

**Key role**:
**Requirements**:

- An applicable bachelor’s degree
- At least 5-8 years related experience
- Strong statistical, accounting or business analytics, or mathematics background
- Ability to interpret and summarize complex and large data sets. Ability to formulate actionable reports using excel and statistical knowledge
- Ability to formulate and interpret statistical data into meaningful reports, metrics, and performance dashboards
- Experience with ERP systems and demand planning software
- Ability to prioritize workload and works with a sense of urgency to meet deadlines
- Demonstrates advanced to expert level in Excel. Pivot tables, V-lookup, sumif, etc.

**Primary duties**:

- Work with supply chain, sales and service operations to develop a stocking strategy that balances customer satisfaction and inventory utilization. The individual will also be required to collaborate with multifunctional teams, work on problems of diverse scope and exercise judgment within generally defined practices and methods to resolve issues and obtain satisfactory solutions. Works as the demand analyst to collect data, define problems, establish facts and reports, and draw valid conclusions.
- Actively participate on SIOP Forecasting Process with Sales and Services
- Analyzing, reporting and improving forecast accuracy both at the detail and aggregate level.
- Establish regular trend analysis review to challenge and improve forecast accuracy
- Develop and produce monthly, quarterly, and yearly reports and metrics. Also responds to custom reports and queries find root-cause and solutions to problems.
- Optimize inventory levels using statistical models to design reorder levels.
- Communicates regularly with Supply Chain, Operations, and Sales to identify, coordinate, and resolve supply chain or capacity issues

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