Planning Section Manager | alfanar Electric

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Job Purpose

Responsible for leading and integrating demand planning, material planning, and distribution planning activities to ensure optimal availability of materials and finished goods while balancing service levels, inventory, cost, and capacity. The role ensures planning accuracy, cross-functional alignment, and disciplined execution to support business objectives and customer commitments.

Key Accountability Areas

• Lead the demand planning process by consolidating inputs from sales, projects, and commercial teams
• Ensure demand forecasts are accurate, validated, and aligned with business assumptions and market trends
• Oversee demand review cycles and manage forecast changes to minimize volatility and supply disruption
• Drive continuous improvement in forecast accuracy and demand visibility

Material Planning and Supply Readiness

• Oversee material planning activities to ensure timely availability of raw materials, components, and packaging
• Ensure alignment between demand plans, production plans, and procurement strategies
• Monitor material shortages, excess, and obsolescence risks and drive corrective actions
• Ensure effective use of planning parameters, lead times, and inventory policies

Distribution Planning and Inventory Optimization

• Lead distribution planning to ensure optimal allocation of finished goods across warehouses and channels
• Balance service levels, stock availability, and logistics cost through effective distribution planning
• Oversee inventory levels, stock aging, and redistribution actions across locations
• Coordinate with logistics and warehouse teams to support efficient product flow

Integrated Planning and Cross-Functional Coordination

• Drive alignment across demand planning, material planning, production planning, procurement, and logistics
• Ensure planning decisions support sales commitments, project requirements, and operational constraints
• Participate in S&OP or integrated planning forums to support decision-making and issue resolution
• Escalate planning risks and constraints with clear options and recommendations

Planning Governance, Systems, and Performance

• Ensure planning processes are executed in line with approved policies, procedures, and system standards
• Oversee planning data accuracy and effective use of ERP planning tools
• Define, monitor, and review planning KPIs related to forecast accuracy, service level, inventory, and planning adherence
• Lead initiatives to improve planning efficiency, visibility, and data quality

Team Leadership and Capability Development

• Lead, coach, and develop the planning team to ensure strong analytical and execution capabilities
• Set clear objectives, monitor performance, and support professional development within the section
• Promote a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement

Role Accountability

HR Proficiency:

• Ability to recruit, recognize and cultivate high performers and expose them in order to create a robust second line of management.
• Ability to recognize low performers and guide them to improve or release them.
• Ability to treat subordinates equally without any discrimination.
• Assessment criteria of subordinates is performance that leads to planned results.
• Ensure availability of delegation of authority matrix to have sufficient delegations as per company policy.

Responsibility:

• Must take full responsibility for his operation as per the job description and the required deliverables from this position, taking into consideration the general company guidelines.
• Able to anticipate problems and make the necessary proactive steps to prevent them
• Ability to take necessary and proper timely decisions.

Delivery:

• Deliver the required results in timely manner with required quality and cost.
• Making a Tangible Difference:
• Must make a…