Supply Chain Planning Manager

**Do you have what it takes to plan and execute inventory deployment to support business in the markets?**:
Bring on your planning hat and act as the guardian of inventory management across the wide inventory network in APAC CN.

**Core Responsibilities**:
Within SIP:

- Analyze inventories to determine how to increase inventory turns, reduce waste, or optimize customer service.
- Implement new or improved supply chain processes.
- Manage activities related to strategic or tactical planning, inventory control and safety stocks deployment.
- Seek to understand S&OP direction and ensure these are actualize into planning output.
- Monitor and drive performance metrics for measurement such as stock turn, service measurements.
- Document physical supply chain processes, such as workflows, cycle times, position responsibilities, or system flows.

Beyond SIP:

- Confer with regional and BU to scrutinize forecast demand or create supply plans that ensure availability of materials or products.
- Support business strategies adapted to changing market conditions, new business opportunities, or cost reduction strategies.
- Develop procedures for coordination of supply chain management with other functional areas.
- Work with regional DM as partners to review forecasts trending to identify changes or to determine their effect on supply chain activities.

**Play your part in our team succeeding**:
Asia Pacific (APAC) Supply and Inventory Planning (SIP) is responsible for planning. LEGO Finished Goods from supply production to inventory flow that delivers optimal finished goods inventory levels to deliver acceptable customer service level and manufacturing stability based on the forecasted demand signal.

It currently operates the flow planning of 10 local Distribution Center's (DC's) in APAC (Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Malaysia and Singapore) and the APAC regional DC in Shanghai where the source supply goes to. The team work closely with the production sources based out in Europe and China.

The SIP team is part of the APAC Supply Chain Operation team. The APAC SIP team has responsibility to drive optimal inventory level with focus on keeping the inventory cost down yet meeting the availability level expected in the markets. This is measured with defined Operation KPIs to ensure we operate in the optimal range. Our key stakeholders are the customers we serve in the different markets, ensuring we have availability of the right products, at the right quality, quantity, and on-time. The team works closely with Demand Management in within APAC SCO and direct with markets in ensuring the supply plan meets the demand plan both in the planning horizon and execution.

**Do you have what it takes?**:

- At least 5 years supply chain planning experience including driving supply chain continuous improvement initiatives. Experience in inventory planning across a multi-tier network
- Strong academic credentials with demonstrated ability to excel in a collaborative environment
- Data presentation and analysis using data analytic tools like excel/Power BI or Tableu.
- Strategic thinking / Strategic Influencing
- Links improvement on day-to-day tasks.
- Concern for impact
- Takes action to have an intended or desired effect on others/ Risk mitigation and opportunity sensing.
- Results orientation
- Execute planning routines and ensure line of sight to performance metrics with planning tasks/Takes appropriate action to achieve objectives.
- Critical Information Seeking
- Seeks different options for scenario planning/Gathers key information to diagnose a problem.

**Join the global LEGO® family**:
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, you’ll be rewarded through our global bonus scheme.
- Your workplace - Our offices will be your primary workplace with flexibility to work from home during your working week. Your People Leader will discuss the principles of our hybrid work model, role eligibility and frequency with you.

Children are our role models. Their curiosity, creativity and imagination inspire everything we do. We strive to create a diverse, dynamic and inclusive culture of play at the LEGO Group, where everyone feels safe, valued and they belong.

The LEGO Group is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity and equal pay regardless of e.g. race, colour, rel