Demand Planner

Responsibilities:

• Contribute to the demand management cycle of the integrated business planning (IBP) process for your categories and to strategy and structure discussions
• Liaise with the commercial and operational teams and develop ways to continuously improve communication between the functions to support the delivery of the business KPIs
• Manage forecast compilation process, which includes owning the short-term weekly plan and the long-term forecast (three or more months)
• Interact with modelling team to generate statistical forecasting
• Participate in the integrated business planning process and manage the demand planning tool
• Perform root-cause analysis for continuous plan improvement for key service issues, forecast error and bias, and share output with appropriate leadership
• Support digitalization project (AI forecasting) at SEA region level and global S4 Hana/o9 preparation enterprise-wide
• Participate in weekly functional KPIs review & update Demand Planning performance (Sales Forecast Accuracy, MTD tracking, supply sufficiency outlook & potential shipment risks) to cross functions
• Collaborates with Order Processing team to achieve high customer service fulfilment level (CFR) through supply-demand match & coordinate closely on direct customer shipment fulfilment
• Partner Logistics Operation team on active inventory freshness & mitigate stocks obsolescence risks through liquidation plans with Commercial

Responsibilities:

• Experience in a fast-moving consumer goods or consumer packaged goods environment, preferably in food or other fast moving, dynamic industry where shelf life is a constraint
• Experience within an IBP/S&OP environment
• Able to influence cross-functional teams, working on priorities and improving the plan
• Excellent problem-solving skills, analytical skills – and able to understand and interpret data
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Team player who can work with many other functions on daily basis
• Able to commit in minimum 6-month contract role

Ong Yvonne

Personnel Reg No: R1549551

Manpower Staffing Services (S) Pte Ltd

EA Licence No: 02C3423