Regional Demand Planner, Greater Asia

Job Description Summary

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Job Description Summary

You're important for producing an accurate consensus unit forecast that will drive supply and inventory planning for the assigned business area.

The Regional Demand Planner works closely with the business at country and regional levels to ensure that all available sales, market, and marketing intelligence is incorporated in the unit projection, including the uncertainty and risks associated with potential business or orders.

As part of the S&OP process, the Regional Demand Planner leads or co-leads the Demand Supply Integrated Reconciliation meeting with the key Business (Marketing /Sales) and Finance stakeholders to validate and reconcile the unit forecast with the financial projections.

To be successful in this role, you should have ongoing strong process and operational link with Inventory/Supply planners and customer service/order management function.

**Responsibilities**:

- Leads the aggregation of country demand and facilitates the Regional Demand Review for the assigned Business.
- Works with Marketing/ Product Managers, Finance and Supply Planning to understand the impact of the forecast, the financial gaps, potential risk and opportunities.
- Summarize the outcome of the review in the reconciliation deck as well as MBR.
- Represents the region in the WW S&OP and S&OE forum - ensure timely collection and review of the appropriate information required for this forum.
- Owns the supply allocation process in the event of chronic supply shortage.
- Work with Supply planner to manage the stock allocation based on agreed priorities.
- Accountable on achieving targeted supply chain operation metrics namely Forecast Accuracy, Back Order, OTIF and Inventory.

Regional Demand Management
- Responsible for the Regional Demand Figures which indirectly drive the production planning, and directly affecting the availability of inventory to customers. Works with Marketing/ Product Managers, Finance and Supply Planning to understand the impact of the forecast, the financial gaps, potential risks, and opportunities.
- Works closely with Country Demand Planners, provides guidance and coordination in key areas of Demand Planning processes to ensure consistency and high performance.
- Facilitates the Regional Demand Review, leads the aggregation of regional demand for the Businesses and provide timely information to all the relevant processes (both Regional & WW S&OP and S&OE forums).
- Plays an active role in translating the key element of the business strategies into tactical functional initiatives to meet the service and objectives across all regions. As the owner of the Regional Demand Planning Process for the Businesses, he or she will be responsible for leading and coordinating the monthly Regional Integrated Reconciliation meeting by actively engaging the Marketing and Finance community as key participants in the process.
- Actively contributes and supports the development and implementation of the Regional Business Strategy in the Demand Planning functional area.
- Represents the region in the WW Demand Review - ensure timely collection and review of the appropriate information required for this forum
- Initiates and drives improvements in the process through increased market knowledge and systems usage. Focuses on improvements in demand modeling, statistical forecasting, which drives greater accuracy and is directly linked to increased customer service and inventory strategies.
- Maintains a strong link to business activity and global issues as they may affect respective products.
- Responsible for coordination of the demand for the annual long-term planning process. Consolidate, challenge the country LTP input as well as provide Regional input

Regional Supply Management