Demand and Supply Planner Senior Executive

**Location**: Singapore

**Salary**: Open

**Industry**: Consumer Goods & Retail

**Sub-industry**: Food & Beverage

**Function**: Consulting
**Job Description**:
**Our Client**:
Our client is the leading beverage company in Singapore and was established in 1977 by its parent company in Japan. They have carved a strong niche in the RTD beverage market with healthy and innovative beverages made from authentic ingredients. They are actively looking to hire an Assistant Supply and Demand Senior Executive who'd also align in their goals and values as it will enable them to access a wider audience through their well-established distribution network.

**The Responsibilities**:

- Conduct monthly pre-S&OP at SKU level across a few businesses - Singapore, Malaysia, Agency International (Business group to be re-assigned based on progress/workload)
- Diligent on-demand analytics and analytics with common sense and the ability to influence sales & marketing based on analytics
- Ensure supply sufficiency, right inventory at the right quantity, time, and cost
- Inventory management - aging, slow-moving, obsolete, new launch, promotion
- An effective communicator and team player to work cross-functionally - lateral and horizontal
- Possess good planning logic and contributes the what-how
- Ability to adopt changes easily and contribute to progressive planning process improvement plan
- Conduct historical analysis to provide insights into the future forecast
- Able to remain focused and work under pressure, prioritize competing demands and deadlines whilst multitasking
- Collaborate with the sales & marketing team to gather quantitative and qualitative forecasts, new product launches, and promotional plan
- Manage and maintain the effectiveness of the statistical forecast by adjusting/cleansing historical demand and determining appropriate levels of aggregation for calculating the statistical forecast
- Report and analyze forecast performance metrics to measure forecast accuracy, assess forecast bias, and identify the root cause analysis to forecast variance
- Drive and plan replenishment with local production planners to ensure supply meets demand
- Ensure supply sufficiency at SKU level
- Validate demand requirements, perform risk assessments, and monitor performance against demand plans
- Analyze sales trends based on business activity to improve in accuracy, inventory, and service levels
- Monitoring and report slowing moving products and obsolete inventories and planning/executing strategies and interventions to mitigate the risks
- Work collaboratively across business functions including production planner, logistics, finance, Sales & Marketing, etc.
- Able to communicate effectively to influence across functions with stakeholders, collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive demand plan effectiveness, achieve on service level, and lean inventory
- Other duties as assigned

**The Requirements**:

- Bachelor's Degree in Supply chain / Business Administration or related field
- At least 5 years of relevant experience in Supply and Demand Planning, forecasting, or analysis
- Strong interpersonal skills, communication & presentation
- Well planning, result-oriented, and active on social networking
- Well-versed in Microsoft Excel
- Strong supply and demand planning, good experience in conduct Pre-S&OP at SKU by country/biz group level
- Strong interpersonal skill, communication, presentation, dynamic, well planning and result-oriented
- Solid analytical and problem-solving skills, accountability, organization, and attention to details