Dry Store & Nominated Planning Manager | Product Development & Design

At Qatar Airways, we continuously elevate the onboard experience through innovation, precision, and world-class service. Within our Product Development and Design (PDD) division, we are committed to delivering exceptional culinary and beverage offerings that define premium travel.
Join our dynamic Catering Services team and play a key role in shaping and delivering an industry-leading onboard wine and spirits programme across our global network.

About the Role
As a Dry Store & Nominated Planning Manager, you will lead and govern end-to-end planning operations for dry store and nominated products across a complex global portfolio. You will be responsible for ensuring product availability, inventory accuracy, cost control, and system integrity while aligning demand planning with operational execution and supplier capabilities.
Your role requires strong leadership, strategic oversight, and cross-functional collaboration with Culinary, Procurement, suppliers, and catering partners to ensure effective execution of planning strategies and operational delivery.

As part of your role, your responsibilities will be inclusive of, but not limited to the following:

• Define and implement inventory planning strategies to balance service levels, cost efficiency, and operational resilience across a large SKU portfolio. 
• Translate demand requirements, menu changes, and business priorities into actionable planning frameworks and stock policies.
• Oversee forecasting, ordering, and replenishment activities, ensuring alignment with safety stock levels, budget controls, and operational constraints. 
• Manage inventory health, including ageing stock, slow-moving items, excess mitigation, and waste reduction. 
• Ensure nominated products are planned, ordered, and deployed in line with approved specifications and timelines. 
• Act as the key planning interface across Culinary, Procurement, caterers, and suppliers to ensure alignment between product intent and operational execution. 
• Ensure data accuracy and governance across systems, including ERP and operational platforms, for all planning activities. 
• Identify and mitigate supply risks, demand fluctuations, and operational constraints with effective contingency planning. 
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance forecasting accuracy, streamline processes, and strengthen supplier collaboration. 
• Prepare management reports and insights on planning performance, risks, and financial exposure for senior stakeholders. 
• Perform other department duties related to this position as directed by the Head of the Department.

Be part of an extraordinary story 
Your skills. Your imagination. Your ambition. Here, there are no boundaries to your potential and the impact you can make. You’ll find infinite opportunities to grow and work on the biggest, most rewarding challenges that will build your skills and experience. You have the chance to be a part of our future and build the life you want while being part of an international community.
Our best is here and still to come. To us, impossible is only a challenge. Join us as we dare to achieve what’s never been done before.
Together, everything is possible.