Distribution Planning Manager📣 Job Ad

About the Role

Reef Group is seeking an experienced Distribution Planning Manager to lead and optimize the planning of finished-goods distribution. This full-time role is based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and involves managing distribution across warehouses, branches, countries, and multiple sales channels. The ideal candidate will have 5-10 years of relevant experience.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the development and execution of distribution plans across multiple warehouses, branches, countries, and sales channels.
• Develop product allocation and replenishment plans based on sales demand, inventory levels, business priorities, and operational capacity.
• Determine distribution requirements across Retail Stores, B2B, B2C, and E-commerce channels.
• Manage inventory allocation across locations to maximize product availability and optimize inventory utilization.
• Review and manage inter-warehouse and inter-branch stock transfers based on actual demand and inventory requirements.
• Establish distribution priorities based on sales performance, inventory availability, market requirements, and growth plans.
• Monitor inventory levels across warehouses, branches, and channels to identify replenishment requirements.
• Analyze stock availability, slow-moving items, excess inventory, and stock-out risks.
• Develop replenishment strategies to maintain optimal inventory levels across the network.
• Identify inventory imbalances between locations and recommend corrective allocation or transfer actions.
• Support inventory optimization initiatives to reduce excess and obsolete stock while maintaining target service levels.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Coordinate closely with Demand Planning, Supply Planning, Production, Procurement, Warehousing, Logistics, Sales, B2B, and E-commerce teams.
• Ensure distribution plans are aligned with sales forecasts, production plans, inventory targets, and business priorities.
• Support distribution planning for new product launches, promotional campaigns, seasonal demand, and new store openings.
• Coordinate with logistics and warehouse teams to ensure shipment readiness and execution in line with approved distribution plans.

Network and Operational Improvement

• Continuously improve distribution planning processes, methodologies, and allocation rules.
• Develop distribution strategies for a multi-warehouse, multi-country, and multi-channel network.
• Analyze distribution performance and identify opportunities to improve service levels, inventory utilization, and operating costs.
• Develop data-driven planning models and reports to support distribution and inventory decisions.
• Analyze the root causes of stock-outs, excess inventory, delayed replenishment, and distribution deviations, and implement corrective actions.

Reporting and Performance Management

• Monitor key distribution and replenishment KPIs, including Product Availability, Distribution Plan Accuracy, Replenishment Performance, Stock-out Rate, Excess & Slow-Moving Inventory, Service Level, Inventory Turnover, and On-time Replenishment.
• Prepare regular management reports covering distribution performance, inventory status, shortages, excess stock, and improvement opportunities.
• Provide data-driven recommendations to senior management to improve distribution and inventory performance.

Preferred Experience

• Experience in multi-country or regional distribution networks.
• Experience supporting Retail Stores, B2B, B2C, and E-commerce channels.
• Experience with large-scale retail networks and multiple distribution centers.
• Experience with ERP and planning platforms such as SAP, Microsoft Dynamics 365, Oracle, or Odoo.
• Strong knowledge of inventory optimization, replenishment methodologies, and distribution planning tools.