Senior Specialist, Demand & Materials Planning at IHS Towers

IHS Towers is the largest independent mobile telecommunications infrastructure provider in Europe, Africa and the Middle East. Founded in 2001, IHS provides services across the full tower value chain – colocation on owned towers, deployment and managed services.

Today IHS Towers has operations in Nigeria, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Zambia and Rwanda. Following the recent acquisitions of MTN and Etisalat’s tower portfolios in Nigeria, IHS owns over 23,300 towers in Africa.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Senior Specialist, Demand & Materials Planning

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full Time

Job Summary

• The role would collaborate with the Commercial department in managing and scheduling customer demand; this would involve forecasting future demand based on historical data, market trends.
• The role would also be responsible for maintaining optimal inventory levels, ensuring warehouse minimizes carrying costs while ensuring that sufficient stock is available to meet customer demand.

Responsibilities

• Analyse historical sales data, market trends, and customer patterns to predict future demand for telecommunication assets.
• Coordinate monthly forecast process with technical department to derive unconstrained demand plan.
• Lead forums to review execution of aligned short term forecast.
• Manage Material ageing process aimed at mitigating business loss from Slow & Obsolescence inventory.
• Review Inventory management parameters which meet business strategies of cost reduction & expected service levels.
• Derive monthly buying plan.
• Oversee the implementation of Inventory management strategies defined for all asset / inventory class.
• Support functional units by giving insights to data through analysis
• Identify existing gaps / deficiency in reporting requirements and oversee projects that resolves such gaps.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in any field / Supply chain or related field.
• 5+ years of demonstrated experience in demand & materials planning (Telecomms experience would be an advantage)
• Professional certification in the supply chain would be an advantage.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.