Demand Planner / Supervisor

Role Purpose

As part of the TW/HK Supply Chain organization, this role is responsible for overall demand planning, especially for demand planning of specific key accounts, support sc manager to facilitate S&OP process and control KPIs. Internal wise, this role is the core member who co-work with multi-function team.

Main Accountabilities

• Co-work with account managers to align sales assumptions, work out 12 months demand rolling forecast per customer.
• Develop consolidate 18 months rolling demand forecast with sales, S&CM based on historic data of market trend and actual IMS data.
• Analyse sell-in/off-take/inventory data and deeply study business characters of different customer, to optimize forecast accuracy and bias.
• Continually track on sales progress to take proactive actions with cross-function quickly.
• Lead cross functions coordination to align priorities in case of supply constrain or over stock risk.
• Be responsible for Monthly forecast accuracy/Bias review, root cause analysis and continuously optimize.
• Integrate NPD forecasting into rolling forecast, work with L/RL to make conversion plan every month, align bridge stock in transition periods.
• Demand planning master data maintenance, regularly update for APO DP, use system reports to make deep dive analysis.

Knowledge, Skills, and Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree Statistics, Operations, Business or comparable

• 2 or more years’ experience with supply chain especially on planning filed.

• Strong communication and negotiation skills

• Excellent command of English and Mandarin would be more advantage.

• Working knowledge of how supply planning integrates within the end-to-end product supply network (Sourcing, Planning, Making & Shipping)

• Ability to filter, prioritize and validate information to develop tactical plans and make recommendations.

• Computer proficient and able to use SAP system is preferred.

• Medium skill on Microsoft excel is preferred.