Assistant Manager Order Management📣 Job Ad

About the Role

CEER is seeking an Assistant Manager, Order Management to join its team in Riyadh. This full-time role supports the end-to-end order management, sales planning, and MIS reporting for the Passenger Vehicle business within the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The position is critical for ensuring a seamless order-to-delivery cycle, accurate demand forecasting, and data-driven decision-making across the sales organization to achieve volume, market share, and profitability targets.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage the complete vehicle order lifecycle from booking to delivery, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and on-time fulfillment for customers and distributors.
• Coordinate with various stakeholders including plant, port/yard, logistics, PDI, finance, and distributors to resolve order blocks, credit holds, and dispatch issues.
• Oversee vehicle allocation across regions, distributors, and variants based on demand priority and stock availability.
• Drive SAP-based order processing hygiene, ensuring data accuracy in master data, pricing, VIN tracking, and dispatch records.
• Support the development of monthly, quarterly, and annual sales plans by region, model, variant, and dealer, and build rolling demand forecasts with regional sales and product planning teams.
• Analyze sales trends, market dynamics, competitor activity, fleet/retail mix, and seasonality, delivering plan vs. actual variance analysis with actionable insights.
• Contribute to the S&OP (Sales & Operations Planning) cycle with consolidated inputs, scenario modeling, and recommendations for leadership.
• Monitor channel partner health, including stock days, sales velocity, retail vs. wholesale mix, outstanding receivables, working capital cycles, and dealer ROI.
• Support the roll-out of dealer schemes, retail incentive programs, fleet/B2B deals, and trade policies, tracking compliance and effectiveness through periodic dealer reviews and field visits.
• Design and maintain dashboards covering retail/wholesale performance, order book, dispatches, dealer stock, channel health, and forecast accuracy using Power BI and Advanced Excel.
• Publish daily, weekly, and monthly MIS reports to leadership, automate recurring reports, and build ad-hoc analyses for leadership reviews, principal/OEM submissions, and budget exercises.
• Maintain a single source of truth for all sales planning and distribution data.

Required Technical Competencies

• Hands-on expertise in SAP (SD module) for order processing, pricing, allocation, and dispatch reporting.
• Strong understanding of the order-to-delivery cycle within an automotive environment.
• Ability to build demand forecasts, sales plans, and S&OP inputs using statistical and market-based methods.
• Strong grasp of variance analysis and forecast accuracy measurement.
• In-depth knowledge of dealer/distributor operations, channel economics, stock management, dealer ROI, and trade scheme management in the PV segment.
• Advanced proficiency in MS Excel (Power Query, complex formulas, pivots, macros) and Power BI (data modeling, interactive dashboards) to deliver actionable business insights.
• Ability to lead small teams, manage cross-functional stakeholders (regional sales, SCM, finance), and communicate effectively at leadership levels.

Qualifications and Experience

• A degree in Business, Engineering, Supply Chain, or a related field.
• An MBA or relevant certification is an added advantage.
• A minimum of 8+ years of experience in a similar role within the Automotive Business.

About CEER

CEER is a prominent company operating within the automotive sector in Saudi Arabia, focusing on passenger vehicles. The company is committed to driving innovation and efficiency in its operations, ensuring robust support for its sales and distribution networks.

Application Process

Candidates who meet the above qualifications are encouraged to apply.