Job Title: Regional Head of Supply Chain – MENA (Egypt, KSA & UAE)

Location: Cairo, Egypt
Reporting To: Global Chief Supply Chain Officer
Industry Focus: Beauty Care, Personal Care, Consumer Health, and Premium FMCG

Role Overview

The Regional Head of Supply Chain – MENA is a senior executive leadership role responsible for driving end-to-end supply chain performance across Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE within a fast-paced, innovation-led FMCG environment.

This role is designed for a seasoned supply chain leader from multinational FMCG organizations with strong exposure to beauty care, personal care, or similar high-SKU, high-innovation consumer categories, where speed-to-market, service excellence, and demand volatility are critical.

The role ensures full alignment with global supply chain strategy while delivering superior operational performance, cost competitiveness, and customer service across diverse and complex markets.

The incumbent will lead planning, procurement, manufacturing coordination, logistics, warehousing, and customer service, ensuring a resilient, agile, and digitally enabled regional supply chain network.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Leadership (Global FMCG Alignment)

• Translate global FMCG supply chain strategy into a high-performing regional execution model.
• Act as a core member of the global supply chain leadership team, contributing insights from emerging and growth markets.
• Lead transformation agendas including digital supply chain, S&OP/IBP maturity, automation, and advanced analytics adoption.
• Drive network optimization aligned with category growth (premium, mass, and dermo-care segments).

End-to-End Supply Chain Excellence 

• Lead integrated business planning (IBP) across multi-category, multi-channel FMCG portfolios (retail, pharmacy, e-commerce, modern trade).
• Manage demand volatility and innovation pipelines typical of beauty & personal care launches and seasonal demand spikes.
• Optimize supplier ecosystems for packaging, raw materials, co-manufacturing, and contract manufacturing networks.
• Ensure world-class distribution performance across fragmented and high-growth MENA markets.

Operational Excellence (Best-in-Class FMCG Standards)

• Deliver superior service levels (OTIF, fill rate) aligned with global FMCG benchmarks.
• Lead Lean, Six Sigma, and continuous improvement programs across end-to-end supply chain nodes.
• Build KPI-driven performance culture across planning, logistics, and procurement teams.
• Strengthen agility to respond to fast-changing consumer trends and SKU proliferation.

Financial Stewardship & Value Creation

• Own regional supply chain P&L impact including cost of goods logistics, warehousing, and procurement efficiencies.
• Drive end-to-end cost optimization without compromising service or innovation speed.
• Improve working capital through inventory optimization and demand-supply balancing in high-SKU environments.
• Support gross margin improvement initiatives across key product categories.

Stakeholder & Cross-Functional Leadership

• Partner closely with Marketing, Sales, R&D, Finance, and Commercial Excellence teams.
• Enable successful product launches in collaboration with innovation and brand teams.
• Manage strategic relationships with global and regional suppliers, 3PLs, and co-manufacturers.
• Act as escalation point for regional disruptions and supply continuity risks.

Risk, Compliance & Supply Continuity

• Ensure compliance with regulatory frameworks across Egypt, KSA, and UAE (especially for regulated beauty/personal care products).
• Mitigate risks related to import dependencies, packaging constraints, and geopolitical volatility.
• Strengthen end-to-end business continuity planning and crisis response capabilities.

People Leadership & Capability Building

• Lead and develop a high-performing regional supply chain organization aligned with global FMCG standards.
• Build succession pipelines for planning, procurement, and logistics leadership roles.
• Foster a culture of performance, agility, consumer obsession, and continuous improvement.
• Attract and retain top-tier FMCG supply chain talent across the region.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Engineering, Business, or related field; MBA preferred.
• 15+ years of progressive supply chain experience in multinational FMCG (Beauty Care, Personal Care, Consumer Health strongly preferred).
• Proven leadership across multi-country, multi-category supply chain operations.
• Strong exposure to S&OP/IBP, innovation supply chains, and demand-driven environments.
• Experience in Egypt, KSA, UAE, or broader MENA region is highly desirable.
• Track record of leading large, cross-functional, multicultural teams.

Key Competencies

• Strategic FMCG supply chain leadership
• Strong commercial and brand understanding
• High-impact stakeholder management across global matrix organizations
• Data-driven and digitally enabled decision making
• Resilience in high-velocity, innovation-led environments
• Strong transformation and change leadership capability
• High integrity and execution discipline

Success Measures (KPIs)

• Service level excellence (OTIF, fill rate, launch readiness)
• Supply chain cost efficiency (% of sales / logistics cost reduction)
• Inventory health (turns, obsolescence, working capital optimization)
• Forecast accuracy and IBP maturity improvement
• Speed-to-market for new product introductions
• Productivity and automation gains across regional network
• Employee engagement, capability development, and retention