Demand & Inventory Planner at Food Concepts Plc

Food Concepts Plc is a market leader in the West African food sector. We operate world-class, quick service restaurant (QSR) brands including 65 Chicken Republic outlets and our newest addition - Pizza Republic, as well as, Reeds - a fine-dining Thai fusion restaurant. To facilitate backward and forward integration strategies, the group also comprises Butterfield Bakery Nigeria (includes 9 plant bakeries) and Free Range Farms (a state-of-the-art poultry farm and poultry processing plant).

Job Title: Demand & Inventory Planner

Location: Lagos
Reporting to: Head of the Business

Job Objectives
Develop, establish and execute a collaborative inventory planning, forecasting and replenishment process, which enables the business meet its sales and service objectives at the lowest possible inventory carrying costs

Key Responsibilities:
1) Coordinate, manage and consolidate the ordering (weekly, fortnightly or monthly as may be required) of inventory items by all business locations with the Warehouse and Procurement teams, ensuring that each business location’s order is:
Rationalized and aligned with the sales trend, budget and or forecast of the business location
Made in a manner that significantly reduces or minimizes excess inventory of items across all business locations
Delivered "on time and in full (OTIF)" to all business locations
2) Work with all relevant internal functions to actively reduce inventory costs whilst not compromising service quality by actively leading and managing the inventory planning and forecasting process by:
Designing and generating weekly, monthly and quarterly statistical forecast reports
Continuously improving forecasting techniques, methods and approach
Relating and measuring the impact of forecast accuracy on the business and making recommended adjustments to forecast and safety stock levels based on changes in demand and market trends.
Prepare, report, and communicate forecast and inventory measurements to management (forecast accuracy, inventory plan vs. targets).
Scheduling and driving quarterly joint reviews of performance with the Procurement and Distribution functions within the organization
Constantly monitoring, reporting on and initiating actions to be taken on inventory levels across all business locations, ensuring that stocking levels are always in alignment with agreed metrics
3) Act as the single point of contact between the Operations team of the Business and all other internal functions involved in procurement and distribution of inventory items
4) Consistently review all exception reports, operating policies and procedures and develop new working practices to support identified commercial and cost control opportunities.

Application Deadline
15th March , 2012

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send CV to: [email protected]