# Materials Planning Manager — Almoosa Health Group

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Location: Al Ahsa, Saudi Arabia
Type: full_time · Level: lead
Monthly salary: AED 9,800 to 17,640 per month (estimated, not employer-stated) (UAE salaries are tax-free)
Posted: 2026-09-30
Apply: https://careers.almoosahealthgroup.org/jobs/materials-planning-manager

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## Description

Materials Planning Manager has the primary responsibility of controlling the supply chain cycle on main warehouses in order to maintain an adequate stock level & equalize between Hospital Demands and Available inventory.

Requirements:
Responsibilities:
- Materials Planning Manager supervises and coordinates the daily work and tasks of materials planners.
- Evaluate and analyze the work flow of materials planning unit in order to enhance and improve productivity.
- Check and validate the daily created purchase request to be approved and sent to purchasing to be processed
- Check and Update the hospital inventory & consumption reports on daily basis in order to process any item reached the assigned reorder level.
- Monitor any newly created codes or newly received items and include them on the supply chain plan.
- Segregate all items based on the category & specify the type of each item as planned or unplanned items.
- Maintain the stock level on main warehouses to ensure its meeting the hospital demands.
- Monitor the stock level of planned items & create new purchase requests based on reorder level & lead time calculation.
- Monitor the stock level of planned items having open standing order & initiate follow up with the needed quantity to purchasing team.
- Track created purchase requests & follow up with purchasing team to create new Purchase orders.
- Check the daily received items report & follow up with purchasing team for un-received items that exceeded the calculated lead time.
- Check the daily internal requests for unplanned items & create new purchase requests after validating the attached justification.
- Attach a valid justification on the purchase request for all unplanned items.
- Attach a valid justification on the purchase requests created individually not within the routine planned purchase request.
- Coordinate with warehouse team to inform the end users for newly received unplanned items in order to transfer them to hospital sub-stores.
- Monitor and analyze the non-moving items on main warehouses and recommend them as alternative for moving items to the end users.
- Monitor and analyze the non-moving items distributed on hospital sub-stores & coordinate with department’s heads to transfer them to another area with higher movement.
- Monitor and analyze the near expiry items on main warehouses & hospital sub-Substores and coordinate with the end users to make sure to consume them based on FEFO system.
- Coordinate with purchasing team with near expiry/non-moving list to be communicated with vendors in order to replace them if possible
- Coordinate with purchasing team to create newly needed codes based on the received request from end users.
- Receive the price difference report from warehouse staff and Update the market price of pharmacy items on product information management module as a reference for current prices on the system.
- Control the price of pharmacy items per lot number as per received purchase order and update/correct any price not integrated through the system.
- Control the price slab of non-pharmacy items per lot number as per received purchase order and update/correct any price not integrated through the system.
- Monitor new price changes of newly received items through Price Audit Report.
QUALIFICATIONS:
Bachelor’s degree in Pharmacy ,Supply Chain Management, Operations, Business, or a related field.
7–10+ years of experience in materials planning, supply chain, inventory management, or healthcare operations.

## Requirements

Responsibilities:
- Materials Planning Manager supervises and coordinates the daily work and tasks of materials planners.
- Evaluate and analyze the work flow of materials planning unit in order to enhance and improve productivity.
- Check and validate the daily created purchase request to be approved and sent to purchasing to be processed
- Check and Update the hospital inventory & consumption reports on daily basis in order to process any item reached the assigned reorder level.
- Monitor any newly created codes or newly received items and include them on the supply chain plan.
- Segregate all items based on the category & specify the type of each item as planned or unplanned items.
- Maintain the stock level on main warehouses to ensure its meeting the hospital demands.
- Monitor the stock level of planned items & create new purchase requests based on reorder level & lead time calculation.
- Monitor the stock level of planned items having open standing order & initiate follow up with the needed quantity to purchasing team.
- Track created purchase requests & follow up with purchasing team to create new Purchase orders.
- Check the daily received items report & follow up with purchasing team for un-received items that exceeded the calculated lead time.
- Check the daily internal requests for unplanned items & create new purchase requests after validating the attached justification.
- Attach a valid justification on the purchase request for all unplanned items.
- Attach a valid justification on the purchase requests created individually not within the routine planned purchase request.
- Coordinate with warehouse team to inform the end users for newly received unplanned items in order to transfer them to hospital sub-stores.
- Monitor and analyze the non-moving items on main warehouses and recommend them as alternative for moving items to the end users.
- Monitor and analyze the non-moving items distributed on hospital sub-stores & coordinate with department’s heads to transfer them to another area with higher movement.
- Monitor and analyze the near expiry items on main warehouses & hospital sub-Substores and coordinate with the end users to make sure to consume them based on FEFO system.
- Coordinate with purchasing team with near expiry/non-moving list to be communicated with vendors in order to replace them if possible
- Coordinate with purchasing team to create newly needed codes based on the received request from end users.
- Receive the price difference report from warehouse staff and Update the market price of pharmacy items on product information management module as a reference for current prices on the system.
- Control the price of pharmacy items per lot number as per received purchase order and update/correct any price not integrated through the system.
- Control the price slab of non-pharmacy items per lot number as per received purchase order and update/correct any price not integrated through the system.
- Monitor new price change

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