Supply Chain Planner

Supply Chain Planner, UAE

About Us

At Dyson, we solve the problems others choose to ignore, with surprising new inventions that defy convention and simply work better. Our Supply Chain team is the engine that keeps Dyson running—making sure every product and part gets where it needs to be, at exactly the right time. We connect Dyson’s innovations to the world, ensuring customers receive not just technology, but delight.

About The Role

As our Supply Chain Category Planner for the UAE market, you'll be at the heart of Dyson’s—driving strategy and operational excellence. You’ll take full ownership for the market: steering supply chain performance, building robust partnerships, and unlocking value across the business. Reporting to the Head of Supply Chain MEA, you’ll identify and mitigate risks, streamline processes, and ensure the portfolio stays sharp, responsive, and competitive.

Key responsibilities

• Build and deliver winning strategies—meeting targets for cost, quality, availability, and customer delight.
• Lead demand forecasting and supply management for spares, ensuring smooth operations and reliable fulfilment.
• Use data-driven insight to analyse spend, hunt for cost saving opportunities, and champion continuous improvement.
• Optimize stock across sites, channels, and markets; swiftly resolve any supply challenges and avoid excess inventory.
• Ensure all supply chain data and transactions are spot on in our systems.
• Track key KPIs, deliver clear insights to leaders, and shape the category’s future direction.
• Collaborate across market functions and more to support product launches, range changes and new supplier integration.
• Process improvement to life—deploying Lean, Six Sigma, or similar methodologies to sharpen efficiency.
  
  
  

About You

• Over 6 years’ supply chain, category management, or procurement experience—with a focus on components, or related fields.
• Strong analytical and commercial acumen, and confidence using tools like Excel (pivot tables, analytics)
• In-depth knowledge of supply chain, procurement, demand planning, and managing external partners, preferably on a global scale.
• A proven record in driving cost savings, process improvements, and category growth.
• Project management skills, and the ability to master multiple priorities at once.
• Excellent communication, negotiation, and stakeholder management abilities.
• Experience with continuous improvement frameworks.
• Drive, adaptability, and initiative—a genuine problem-solver with a can-do mind-set.
  
  
  

Dyson is an equal opportunity employer. We know that great minds don’t think alike, and it takes all kinds of minds to make our technology so unique. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and employment decisions are made without regard to race, colour, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other any other dimension of diversity.

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