Demand Planning Manager

**Are you interested in delivering the regional demand plans across physical and online channels?
**We are on a growth journey Bring your retail and demand planning expertise to the table to help us leverage on data and to extend our reach
**Core Responsibilities**
- Lead part of monthly of demand planning cycle, including working towards alignment and sign off with local business owners for the plan, including e.g. trade-offs, risks and opportunities. This will also include preparing pre-read material and making pitches to key partners/ team members.
- Secure plans are built on a strong subset of assumptions. Collaborate with various team members across marketing, insights and B2B to enable the best possible plan quality. Validate plans against online trends like shopper profiles, visits and conversion.
- Deliver strong promotional plans, and take lead in reviewing across channels that plans are aligned to local, regional and global activations.
- Secure final forecast submission happens timely and in high quality, and that non item level aspects are calculated and loaded; e.g. framing from discounts and fulfilment revenue.
- Work with supply planning team and regional demand management team for short term demand changes, leading demand signal as well as constraint plan and regional allocation
- Onboarding new planning system and support continuously improvement on statistics model
- Various reporting and analytical tasks. Examples could be launch handshakes performance, performance assessment and need for mini-submissions/short term changes.

**Play your part in our team succeeding
The retail planning team is a global team based in 4 different locations; Enfield - Shanghai - London - Billund, and now we are further growing our presence to Singapore as well. The team leads the +18 Month demand plan globally across LEGO owned branded channels, both physical stores and online. We plan a +16Bdkk annual turnover and have been experiencing a hyper growth the past years.

This role will work closely with the China/APAC team, consistent of 5 employees located in Shanghai and Singapore. The team forms part of the Global LEGO retail planning team, and will have direct reference into the Global Head of Retail planning, whilst functionally be working closely with Senior Manager of APAC/China.

**Do you have what it takes?**
- Background within a commercial field with strong flair for process, numbers and understanding an end-to-end business process.
- Collaboration skills across functions, culture and management levels. Experience working minimum at a regional level in a retail environment with sales locations locally.
- Excellent analytical mentality. Supervise large amount of data and draw out patterns and key messages. Well rounded retail terminology and process like financial planning, conversion rates, retention, AOV etc.
- Strong experience with working with excel /Tableau / Power BI and making it an enabler.
- Experience with using big data and statistical modeling into planning process
- Strong communication skills. Has the ability to speak functionally/technical/detailed language with e.g. demand planners and marketer, and can communicate this in a concise way to the larger team.
- Process focused and systematic. Gets energy from establishing ways of working, new frameworks and ensuring process governance and adherence to these.
- Experience in direct retail business industry and ecommerce channel planning is preferred
- Adaptability and change readiness. Seeing new situations and changes as opportunities and crafting positive momentum around these
- Thrives in a global environment & uses online collaboration tools to its fullest

**What’s in it for you?**:
**Here are some of what to expect**:

- **Family Care Leave **- We offer enhanced paid leave options for those important times.
- **Insurances **- All colleagues are covered by our life and disability insurance which provides protection and peace of mind.
- **Wellness **- We want you to be your best self, so you'll have access to the Headspace App and lots of wellbeing initiatives and programmes run by local teams where you are based.
- **Colleague Discount **- We know you'll love to build so from day 1 you will qualify for our generous colleague discount.
- **Bonus **- We do our best work to succeed together. When goals are reached and if eligible, you'll be rewarded through our bonus scheme.
- **Your workplace **- When you join the team you'll be assigned a primary workplace location i.e. one of our Offices, stores or factories. The hiring team will discuss the principles of our hybrid work model 'Best of Both', role eligibility and frequency with you during the recruitment process.

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