Category Planning Lead Travel - PK

📱 About Mous

We are Mous. (Pronounced mouse, not moose.) People deserve tech and lifestyle products that are fit for purpose, perform as promised, and empower them to be their best. That’s why we’re building the go-to brand for products that genuinely deliver. 

As Category Planning Lead, you’ll run the monthly S&OP cycle for our Travel category end to end — from performance review, through demand and supply planning, to sign-off with the Senior Leadership Team. You’ll be accountable for the category’s inventory health: enough stock, arriving on time, to protect availability, without tipping into overstock or obsolescence.

Alongside the forecast, you’ll own the initial order quantity and launch plan for new products, the weekly allocation of stock to warehouses once mass production completes, inter-warehouse transfers, and the inbound and outbound forecast for our 3PL. You’ll own the category KPIs — Availability, Forecast Accuracy and E&O — and the dashboard behind them. It’s a genuinely cross-functional seat, working with Commercial, Marketing, Ecommerce, Product, Production, Procurement, Logistics, Data and Retail across the UK, Pakistan and China.

You’ll report to the S&OP Manager, line manage one Demand Planner, and sit alongside the Category Planning Lead for Device Accessories. This is a build role rather than a maintain role — backpacks launched in 2023 and luggage in 2025, and the S&OP process is still forming, so there is real scope to shape the method, the KPIs and the cadence.

As the S&OP function grows, this role opens into broader or multi-category planning leadership, with a route towards Demand Planning Manager.

Please note that this role will be situated at our office in Lahore (Upper Mall), working on-site from Monday-Thursday, with Friday being an optional WFH day. The normal working hours will be 10am - 7pm PKT.

👋 About You 

You’re a good fit if you’ve spent five or more years in demand planning, category planning or S&OP, and you’ve owned a monthly cycle end to end rather than supported someone else’s. You’re fluent in Excel — large datasets, models, and turning the output into a clear recommendation — and hands-on enough in Power BI (or equivalent) to build and defend dashboard logic, not just read it. You understand what MOQs, lead times, capacity and freight mode actually do to a plan, and you can put a number on the trade-off between availability and overstock in a way a senior audience will act on.

You’re a confident, proactive communicator with an ownership mindset, you make the call and stand behind it. You think end to end rather than in silos, you’re organised and detail-oriented, and you’re comfortable coaching someone who knows the work but needs support to act independently. You’ll be working across three countries and several stakeholder groups, so cultural awareness and collaboration matter here.

🔑Key Responsibilities:

• Own the monthly S&OP cycle for Travel end to end, from performance review through demand and supply planning to executive sign-off.

• A monthly S&OP cycle that runs to a reliable cadence and consistently produces decisions, not just discussion.

🤓Skills and experience requirements:

We’re looking for someone who is:

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We operate a hybrid working model, spending four days a week in our Lahore office to maintain a collaborative, high-energy culture.

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