Inventory Planning & Analytics Specialist

About the role

We’re looking for an analytical and proactive Inventory Planning & Analytics Specialist to turn inventory, sales, and purchasing data into clear recommendations that improve stock availability and purchasing decisions. You will recommend what to reorder, when to reorder, and how much to order by SKU, size, colour, and location. Your recommendations will consider sales performance, available and incoming stock, supplier lead times, returns, seasonality, margins, and purchasing budgets.

Key responsibilities

• Monitor available, reserved, and incoming inventory across Qatar and Dubai by SKU, size, colour, and location.
• Analyze Shopify sales, ERP inventory data, purchase orders, transfers, returns and cancellations.
• Develop and maintain demand forecasts, reorder points, safety‑stock levels and stock‑coverage targets.
• Recommend replenishment quantities using sales velocity, supplier lead times and planning rules.
• Identify fast‑moving, slow‑moving, aged, overstocked and stock‑out‑risk products and propose actions.
• Build and maintain inventory dashboards and automated reports using Excel, Power BI and ERP data.
• Validate data, investigate discrepancies and ensure data‑quality before reporting.
• Submit replenishment recommendations for approval and track them through purchase requests to receipt.
• Provide Marketing with weekly product‑priority lists and maintain an action tracker with owners and deadlines.

Required profile

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Business Administration, Data Analytics, Statistics, Industrial Engineering or related field.
• 2–4 years of practical experience in inventory planning, demand planning, replenishment or retail inventory analytics.
• Experience in fashion retail, e‑commerce, general retail or FMCG.
• Strong knowledge of demand forecasting, reorder points, safety stock, stock coverage, sell‑through and inventory turnover.
• Ability to connect inventory analysis with sales performance, margins and purchasing budgets.

Required skills

• Advanced Microsoft Excel / Google Sheets (PivotTables, XLOOKUP, INDEX/MATCH, SUMIFS, data analysis).
• Experience with ERP systems and Shopify or similar e‑commerce platforms.
• Building dashboards using Power BI or comparable business‑intelligence tools.
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving abilities with high attention to data accuracy.