Assistant 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 it's key decisions on. 

Key Accountabilities 

• Forecast Management 

1. 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. 
2. 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. 
3. 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. 
4. Improve Forecast Accuracy by analyzing root cause of forecast error and defining action plan with MKT/SCM/Sales 
5. To discuss and develop action plan for clearance stocks – balance promo, old PVs, PIPO and excess stocks. 
6. Ensure roll-over of demand plan on monthly basis to enable accurate replenishment plan. 

• Inventory Management 

1. Work closely with Supply planning for the synchronization of demand & supply and for the alignment of the inventory target. 
2. Work with Supply planning to find opportunity to reduce order undelivered related to OOS to improve customer service level. 

• Reporting 

1. To generate 18 months rolling forecast and analyse gaps between sales forecast, demand forecast, and in market sales target to enable discussion of business gap plan closure. 
2. To assist Supply planning to generate/ trigger on OOS, high inventory, and aging list to minimise on write-off. 
3. To provide FCA and FB analysis by Nart and brand level. 
4. To generate sales projection and supply outlook for monthly S&OP  

• System and Process 

1. To identify action improvement in current Demand Planning Process  
2. To support regional or global introduction of new planning system or process, which must be adopted to the new process, if necessary. 
3. Be part of annual business planning to generate IMS and Shipment sales by line items 

Your Profile

Knowledge, Skills, and Experience 

• Strong background in demand planning of FMCG industry. 
• A Bachelor's Degree or the equivalent plus a minimum of 8 years of related forecasting/supply planning experience 
• 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, Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint and SAP  
• Outstanding relationship building skills with internal & external business partners. 
• Collaborate with key stakeholders internal and external to identify opportunities for integration of planning process