Assistant Demand

**About Our Client**

Our Client is a leading food and beverage group in Singapore and the Asia Pacific. The company manufactures and markets a wide range of beverages under the reputed brand name and also owns and operates restaurant chains, serving varied culinary delights.

**Roles & Responsibilities**:

- Lead and conduct Monthly S&OP with management, drives S&OP maturity improvement and financial alignment.
- Provides guidance and leadership on pre-S&OP at SKU level across few businesses - Singapore, Malaysia, Agency, International
- Posses know-how in supply and demand planning, demand analytics, inventory management, planning processes, and technology adoption
- Responsible to achieve consensus demand with sales & marketing, supply sufficiency with the right balance of inventory with production planner/replenishment, high customer order fulfillment
- Points of escalation on overall Supply and Demand serviceability to the commercial team, and lead work-around with SC team / MFG to resolve issues.
- Spearheading issues / problem-solving cross-functionally to remove obstacles to improve serviceability
- Accountable to Inventory management - aging, slow-moving, obsolete, new launch, promotion
- Deliver both Cost and SC operational KPIs jointly - Service Level Agreements (SLAs), inventory
- An effective manager, communicator and team player to work cross-functionally - lateral and horizontal
- Subject Matter Expert in Planning. Ability to lead and implement planning process/technology change and adopt changes easily
- Responsible for sales forecasting process across markets (Singapore, Malaysia, Export Markets):

- Lead and conduct Monthly S&OP with management
- Responsible for the forecasting and demand planning for the relevant markets on a monthly basis
- Develop effective forecast models based on sales trends and demand patterns and effectively communicate forecast and inventory estimations to management and relevant stakeholders.
- Prepare and facilitate monthly forecasting process with respective markets, channels and/or banners’ representative
- Using trend analysis and other forecast techniques to assess the demand risk or opportunities associated with commercial and supply chain
- Ensure appropriate adjustments are done across markets based on sales trends, especially for new product launches
- Identify gaps and opportunities for forecast improvement and understand business processes and needs
- Consolidate and submit the monthly forecast to supply chain for master production scheduling (MPS)
- Identify and participate across the value chain and provide inputs and solutions to generate adequate and accurate forecasts
- Address demand and supply related issues in a timely and effective manner
- Analyse root causes of forecast error (Singapore, Malaysia, International):

- Prepare and update accuracy files with previous month’s sales, and analyse root causes of forecast errors to mitigate stock-out or over-stocking situations
- Discussion and align with sales and marketing on forecast errors and adjustments to demand forecast
- Reconcile demand and supply with their impact on inventory, working to optimise inventory coverages
- Ensure supply meets demand (Singapore, Malaysia, International):

- Incorporate production plans from different factories into replenishment plan; timely update and monitoring of production schedules and current inventory to ensure supply meets demand
- Analyse, plan and influence SCM MPS (master production schedule) for finished goods to be produced at the right time right quantity according to factories' ability to fulfil the demand
- Implemented the design in parameterization of demand and supply planning to provide accurate information for optimal planning
- Lead and design and develop solutions that bridge the gap between the planning business teams with limited resources
- Analyse slow moving & obsolescence stocks (Singapore, Malaysia, International):

- Identify and report the defined excess and slow-moving stocks; evaluate the risk of stocks could become obsolete
- Lead the identified excess inventory and developed a sales plan jointly with commercial team to liquidate the inventory
- Portfolio review to SKU Rationalisation (Singapore, Malaysia, International):

- Gather relevant data at PK group level across all markets, incorporated with financial data for each SKU for commercial assessment
- Analysed and provide product class according to defined period input for pareto analysis, with 80/20 rules
- Requisition for purchase order, urgent release, cluster pack/sticker materials:

- Prepare and approval for purchase requisition, urgent release, purchase of cluster pack/barcode sticker
- People Development:

- Building talent pipeline and HIPO team

**Job Requirements**:

- Bachelor’s in supply chain management, business or any related degree
- Minimum 8 years’ experience in Planning, Supply Chain, Supply Chain analytics
- Subject Matter Expert in S&OP / IBP,