About the job
About GMG-
GMG is a global well-being company retailing, distributing and manufacturing a portfolio of leading international and home-grown brands across sport, everyday goods, health and beauty, properties, and logistics sectors. Its vision is to inspire people to win in ways that make the world better. GMG's investments span across five key verticals: GMG Sports, GMG Everyday Goods, GMG Health and Beauty, GMG Properties, and GMG Logistics. Under the ownership and management of the Baker family, it has become a leading global company, affiliated with the world’s most successful and respected brands in the well-being sector. Working across the Middle East, North Africa, and Asia, GMG has introduced more than 120 brands into its markets.
Job Summary
The Role holder is responsible to lead Sports Mena Central Demand Sales forecasting & Inventory Management.The role will lead business analytics, Process improvement, ML based demand forecasting & inventory pricing.
Key Responsibilities:
Demand Forecasting:
Responsible to monitor different statistical model, demand sensing & shaping, basis create forecast accuracy ranging from macro to micro business hierarchies.
Set Up SOP forums along with business leads to explain forecasting outputs, understand business key futuristic strategies, build outlier corrections & achieve highest forecast accuracies.
Lead transformation of Integrated business planning from MFP, Assortment Planning , Markdown Planning & Replenishment.
Key KPI – Demand Forecast Accuracy .
Inventory Management:
Inventory forecasting for the future 12 months at all hierarchy levels in line to business sales & COGS plan.
Building strategies & directing business on Aged inventory clearance across markets.
Liaising with different Business units ( Sales , Retail , Online) to strategize high volume clearance across different channels.
Inventory Pricing & Markdown strategy in line to inventory KPIs.
Pricing Elasticity review & agile actions on Markdown planning across verticals of Sports Business.
Key KPI : Stock Turns , GMROI .
Logistics Volume Forecasting :
Annual / monthly forecasting of volumes ranging from Inbound , Outbound & Pullouts across all Warehouse locations based on business sales & demand forecast.
Setting up monthly rolling forecast meeting with business & logistics to align activity based volumes ,hence to build efficiency in manpower planning support & loss in business opportunity & meeting SLAs.
Establish Logistics Activity based planning & forecasting, to lead accuracy in manhour planning for Logistics Department.
Business Analytics & MIS
Setting up key business reporting’s & MIS for critical business decision making reports. Define success for the analytics team, strategy and resources needed to reach defined goal.
Established critical business inferences to be reported back to Senior Leadership to enhance business efficiencies across all levels.
Establish relationships with IT / Analytical teams at retailers to ensure smooth information flows
Requirements
Management from Tier 1 college.
Min. 15 years of experience in Retailing , Demand forecasting & Inventory management.
Transformation / implementation experience of any IBP tool. ( Blue Yonder , o9 etc)
Rich inventory management & strategy building expertise.
High skills on multi system domain from ERP , Power BI , Tableau , Planning Tools.
Strong People Management Skills. ( Managers reporting line of 5)
Seniority Level: Managerial-Level
Job Functions: Software Development
Industries : Information Technology
