Demand Planning Manager

Your Tasks

Role Purpose

To manage, advise and challenge the business to create a by line forecast so that one agreed number is used by all to plan the company’s future direction and base key decisions on.

Key Accountabilities

Supply Chain Strategy

• In agreement with Supply Chain Director, contributes to the development of Demand Planning strategies ensuring alignment to local and Global Supply Chain Strategies.

Forecast Management

• Responsible for leading discussion with a team (SCM, Marketing & Sales) to produce a scientifically based operational forecast and Annual Business Plan, in order to advise and challenge senior management when agreeing the overall business forecast. 


• Manage the process of integrated sales forecasting and S&OP where planners analyse and produce forecasts for planning by coordinating regular reviews and gap analysis (Forecast Calibration/ Consensus Meeting/ S&OP) with generating Demand stakeholders to achieve a consensus and coordinated actions in future plans. 


• Review of Promotions / New Products Forecasting – Challenge and raise concerns on promotion and NPD forecast provided by MKT/SCM/Sales and discuss on cannibalization with based items.


• Improve Forecast Accuracy by analyzing root cause of forecast error and defining action plan with MKT/SCM/Sales.


• Discuss and develop action plan for clearance stocks – balance promo, old PVs, PIPO and excess stocks. 


• Ensure roll-over of demand plan on monthly basis to enable accurate replenishment plan.

Service Level

• Working closely with the Supply Planning and Customer Service team to monitor weekly dropped orders and prevent future losses by redirecting orders to the correct products via active PIPO management.  


• Collaborating with the Commercial stakeholders by actively communicating products overselling/underselling and working with Supply Planners to replenish products in distress.

Reporting

• To generate 18 months rolling forecast and analyse gaps between sales forecast, demand forecast, and in market sales target to enable business gap plan discussion in the Consensus and S&OP meeting.


• To generate reports on excess and aging inventory, and to discuss/identify clearance plan with Marketing, Sales, and S&CM for minimise write-offs.


• To prepare KPI reportings on FCA and BIAS analysis by NART, brand and category level.


• To upload KPI FCA and BIAS, Service Level, Returns and Inventory reports into Supply Chain Dashboard Power BI, and publish at monthly basis.


• Participate in S&OP review and provide necessary reports and analysis to enable S&OP process.


• Identify and seek for process improvement to streamline planning drumbeat and minimize manual efforts. 

Projects Assignment and Best Practice Sharing

• The incumbent will be assigned to leads or support projects/sub-projects/actively involves and collaborates with other related projects to achieve the objectives and expected deliverable results of the projects.  


• Support best practices sharing with MU ASEAN.

Your Profile

Key Requirements

• Strong background in demand planning and supply planning of FMCG industry. 


• A Bachelor's Degree or the equivalent plus a minimum of 8 years of related forecasting/supply planning experience and at least 3 year experience working in management level.


• S&OP experience is preferable.


• Strong analytical skill and leadership skill.


• Good for the oral and written in communication skills.


• Good command of the English language.


• PC Proficiency in Windows, Excel, Query, Power BI, PowerPoint, and Outlook.


• Outstanding relationship building skills with internal & external business partners.


• Collaborate with key stakeholders internal and external to identify opportunities for integration of planning process.