Specialist / Assistant manager Tactical Demand Planning & Reporting, SEA

Specialist / Assistant manager Tactical Demand Planning & Reporting, SEA

PURPOSE & OVERALL RELEVANCE IN THE ORGANIZATION:

Support the E2E Integrated Business Planning (IBP) process and inventory management for South East Asia (6 countries), and managing key reports for Demand Planning Team. Foster cross-functional collaboration to achieve one committed plan, consistent with our mission and strategy

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Support the E2E monthly IBP process:
  • Manage and continuously enhance the IBP database, tools and reports to optimize the planning environment for key stakeholders, enabling them for better decision making
  • Fully accountable for monthly IBP system submission, ensuring submission meets global requirements and market’s alignment by validating data integrity and cleansing data when needed
  • Manage consolidation of countries input to provide SEA view
  • Grasp key financial figures of IBP (Net sales, Go in margin, pricing, volumes) , financial plan and operational data (business on hand, buy, range plan)
  • Support monthly IBP review meetings with a focus on category performance with country teams, SEA Brand, commercial and finance teams. Covering key metrics by country, by channel, by category for the 2 year planning period
  • Contribute to cross functional collaboration with key stakeholders through IBP process
• Support Inventory management for SEA:
  • Grasp key inventory KPIs (Inventory value and volumes, stock turn, month on hand)
  • Support SEA inventory manager on key inventory reports
• Manage key reports for SEA Demand Planning team, such as IBP dashboard, Price and margin analysis.

KEY RELATIONSHIPS:

• Tactical demand planning team
• Country team: Country Manager, Country Channel (Wholesale/Franchise/Retail), Country FP&A, Country brand
• SEA Finance
• Emerging Market IBP

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES :

• Data proficiency with attention to detail
• Advanced reporting skills with experience in building reports
• Advanced technical skills, minimally Excel, Power BI, Power Pivot
• Analytical skill and insight
• Committed to driving business change using fact-based approach
• High interpersonal/presentation skills to communicate and coordinate with multiple cross-functional stakeholders
• High degree of commercial and business acumen knowledge to challenge and drive consensus between Sales & Marketing

PRE-REQUISITE EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE / MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Minimum 4-5 years work experience within large sales organization
• Minimum 2 years finance and/or planning/forecasting experience
• Preferable experience in the sport or clothing industry

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