Demand & Supply Planning Manager

**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

**Analyze root causes of forecast error (Singapore, Malaysia, International)**
- Prepare and update accuracy files with previous month’s sales, and analyze 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 optimize 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
- Analyze, 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

**Analyze 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 Rationalization (Singapore, Malaysia, International)**
- Gather relevant data at company level across all markets, incorporated with financial data for each SKU for commercial assessment
- Analyzed 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

**Requirements**:

- Bachelor’s in supply chain management, business or any related degree
- Experience in leading S&OP and demand forecasting
- Subject Matter Expert in S&OP / IBP, demand forecasting, demand & supply balancing
- Preferably relevant consumer product industry experience especially in FMCG
- Ability to work on manual for now and implement technology adoption in next 12 months