Regional Planner, Integrated Business Planning

**About the Role**:
Reporting to Senior Manager, Integrated Business planning, The Regional planner's role is to ensure efficient and strategic coordination of either demand or supply planning within APAC. Regional Planner helps the business maintain a balance between customer demand and supply capabilities, contributing to improved service levels, reduced costs, and better decision-making across departments. This role will be responsible for either demand or supply planning, depending on the evolving needs of the team. The specific area of focus (demand or supply) will be determined following a planned restructuring of the team.

**Demand Planning**:

- Collaborate with the sales & marketing team to gather quantitative and qualitative forecasts, product life cycle updates, and promotional plans.
- Conduct a pre-demand review meeting with sales & marketing at SKU level and validate outliers with cross-functional teams and reach consensus.
- Develop and manage demand forecasting processes across multiple BUs, leveraging statistical models, historical data, and market insights.
- Work closely with sales, marketing, business planning, finance and supply chain operations to understand demand drivers and align forecasts with business goals
- Lead the monthly demand review meeting for Medical capital equipment and accessories and consumable products with function head to sign off consensus forecast
- Product portfolio management and maintenance and ensuring the phase in/out schedule in alignment with inventory/supply management.
- Coordinate with Business on allocation decision with data-driven proposal
- Conduct “what-if” scenario analysis to assess the impact of market changes, supply constraints, or internal disruptions and provide recommendations for actions.
- Maintain a rolling forecast of demand from external customers for the full planning horizon (3~18 months or as per functional planning guidelines)
- Report and analyse forecast accuracy performance metrics, and identify root cause analysis and corrective actions.

**Inventory & Replenishment Planning**:

- Management of product segmentation based on ABC XYZ classification, including periodic review, sign-off and update
- Establish inventory management strategies for each product segment by setting up the supply chain in different ways (varying lead times, altering safety stock, etc.) to improve efficiency and optimise stock holdings.
- Replenishment planning, including rolling 12- to 18-month purchasing Forecast.
- Create transparency over inventory composition; bucketize inventory into excess, understock, stock-out, and healthy. Coordinate definition and creation of tools and dashboards to provide full transparency upon composition of actual and projected inventory.
- Maintain close collaboration with cross function stakeholders, master planning all relevant teams to ensure a strong connection between planning/execution processes and inventory management.
- Planning Master Data steward (Lead time, ROP, SS, EOL, NPI, NRI, etc) including SAP system & Excel master file.
- Management execution of replenishment process, in collaboration with Genpact team, to ensure process efficiency and accuracy.
- Proactively identify shortages potentially influencing on-time delivery and coordinate with Genpact & MBC on expediting or reallocation.
- Maintain an ongoing approach of analytical review on LIFR, OTIF, BO(supply reason) with mitigation & corrective action.

**Projects & Continuous Process Improvement**:

- Develop opportunities for ongoing systemization of the SAP functionality enhancement for precise planning
- Support IBP roll-out & deployment to APAC countries. Conduct best practice sharing & training/orientation to non-IBP country team.
- Regularly engage with process stakeholders to promote IBP process awareness; strengthening integration to business planning routines and promoting engagement
- Represent at regional level to support the development and execution of consistent global Olympus IBP standards
- Lead improvement of existing processes by working with cross-functional stakeholders and continuously contributing to no-touch supply chain initiatives.
- Projects or ad-hoc tasks assigned by the manager.

**About Olympus**:
Our purpose at Olympus is to **_make peoples’ lives healthier, safer and more fulfilling_**. We do this through innovation. As a technology pioneer, we design and deliver solutions across our Medical division that makes a positive contribution to society.

Our products are used to capture the medical and diagnostic images of our world, from the microscopic to the endoscopic. They are instrumental for traveling inside the human body to help diagnose, treat and prevent illness.

Our commitment to customers and our social responsibility is the cornerstones of everything we do.

**Why work at Olympus?**

At Olympus, we are dedicated to fostering a high-performing culture, a collaborative environment, and enabling everyone to shine. Our