Regional Demand Planner, AMEA
Petaling Jaya, 10, MY, 47800
About the role
- To lead the monthly Demand review and reach a consensus demand plan by working closely with the Sales Leads and Cluster MD (South Pacific)
- To improve forecast accuracy, the bias for the market in scope (South Pacific)
- To establish and improve all DP-related regional reporting (AMEA)
- To manage and continually improve the sales forecasting process and develop the demand planning skills, capabilities, and tools (AMEA)
- To optimally use and improve the SAP APO process and tool, and other DP-related processes and reporting tools, with proper documentation (AMEA)
- To lead as AMEA PPU (Process Power User) and AMEA super user
Key responsibilities include
- Internal - Sales (all BUs for South Pacific country cluster) – monthly:
- Generate baseline forecast rolling 24 months horizon
- Review actual sales vs lag 2month demand
- Improve demand forecast to compare with the latest trend, previous year, and budget, including contracts/late contracts.
- Facilitate demand validation and enrichment by capturing the assumptions, risks and opportunities on sales activity, customer projects, NPI, sub-co/co-packer and Interco flows
- Agree on a final demand plan and critical points to be escalated/resolved
- Integrate Budget and MTP process into S&OP Demand Planning monthly process
- Internal – Customer Service – monthly:
- Same as above
- (CS: within 3 months, Sales: 3M onwards)
- Internal – Supply Planning – monthly:
- Support supply balancing activities related to demand shaping
- Internal – Supply Chain/Finance – monthly:
- Provide demand visibility to the supply and finance team
- Internal - Global, Regional and Local multifunction – biweekly:
- As AMEA PPU (Process Power User) lead and drive on system improvement plan and statistic review for AMEA, and work collaboratively with the Global / Regional / Local teams. Standardization of process across AMEA. Technical power user.
- Communicate the needs, drive discussion, and deliver the results for DP related project/process and tool improvement for AMEA region
- Proper documentation
- External – Key customers – monthly:
- Improve demand forecast via customer collaborative forecasting
- Travel requirements: 10-15%
About you
- Experience managing the S&D process as a demand planner. SAP users will have an advantage
- 10+yrs of overall experience of which 5+yrs of relevant experience in demand/supply planning and analysis
- Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and PowerBI knowledge is a must
- Strong communication skills, proactive, collaborative, and consensus-driven
- Strong analytical skills, capable of analyzing large datasets
- Has the ability to work independently with a sense of business acumen capable of presenting logical and well-structured proposals
- Can work in a cooperative, collegial environment across numerous business disciplines and diverse needs of various business units
- Energetic, enthusiastic and have the capacity to apply extra effort when the occasions demand
- Showing integrity, openness & honesty about risks and opportunities
- Presenting honest numbers and realistic forecasts
- Ability to challenge and make assumptions
- Ability to multitask in a fast-paced environment
- Close collaboration between different functions with a common business language
- Shared accountability to provide relevant inputs for the next process steps
- Time management skills, including the ability to multitask and work under tight deadlines
- Engage internal and external stakeholders
- Improve demand forecast via customer collaborative forecasting
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