Demand Planning Manager

Kuala Lumpur - Malaysia

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 21 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

At Beiersdorf we want to help people feel good about their skin and our commitment goes far beyond caring for skin. For 140 years we have developed innovative skin and body care products for well-known brands such as NIVEA Eucerin La Prairie Hansaplast and Chantecaille. We act according to our purpose WE CARE BEYOND SKIN and take responsibility for our consumers our employees the environment and society.

Behind every brand every product and every accomplishment are our more than 20000 employees. It is for them that we live an inclusive culture of respect and trust that is strongly aligned with our values CARE COURAGE SIMPLICITY and TRUST. We also embrace diversity by valuing the uniqueness of each individual and being committed to equal opportunities for all.

Your Tasks

Role Purpose

To manage advise and challenge the business to create a by line forecast so that one agreed number is used by all to plan the companys future direction and base key decisions on.

Key Accountabilities

Supply Chain Strategy

In agreement with Supply Chain Director contributes to the development of Demand Planning strategies ensuring alignment to local and Global Supply Chain Strategies.

Forecast Management

Responsible for leading discussion with a team (SCM Marketing & Sales) to produce a scientifically based operational forecast and Annual Business Plan in order to advise and challenge senior management when agreeing the overall business forecast.
Manage the process of integrated sales forecasting and S&OP where planners analyse and produce forecasts for planning by coordinating regular reviews and gap analysis (Forecast Calibration/ Consensus Meeting/ S&OP) with generating Demand stakeholders to achieve a consensus and coordinated actions in future plans.
Review of Promotions / New Products Forecasting Challenge and raise concerns on promotion and NPD forecast provided by MKT/SCM/Sales and discuss on cannibalization with based items.
Improve Forecast Accuracy by analyzing root cause of forecast error and defining action plan with MKT/SCM/Sales.
Discuss and develop action plan for clearance stocks balance promo old PVs PIPO and excess stocks.
Ensure roll-over of demand plan on monthly basis to enable accurate replenishment plan.

Service Level

Working closely with the Supply Planning and Customer Service team to monitor weekly dropped orders and prevent future losses by redirecting orders to the correct products via active PIPO management.
Collaborating with the Commercial stakeholders by actively communicating products overselling/underselling and working with Supply Planners to replenish products in distress.

Reporting

To generate 18 months rolling forecast and analyse gaps between sales forecast demand forecast and in market sales target to enable business gap plan discussion in the Consensus and S&OP meeting.
To generate reports on excess and aging inventory and to discuss/identify clearance plan with Marketing Sales and S&CM for minimise write-offs.
To prepare KPI reportings on FCA and BIAS analysis by NART brand and category level.
To upload KPI FCA and BIAS Service Level Returns and Inventory reports into Supply Chain Dashboard Power BI and publish at monthly basis.
Participate in S&OP review and provide necessary reports and analysis to enable S&OP process.
Identify and seek for process improvement to streamline planning drumbeat and minimize manual efforts.

Projects Assignment and Best Practice Sharing

The incumbent will be assigned to leads or support projects/sub-projects/actively involves and collaborates with other related projects to achieve the objectives and expected deliverable results of the projects.
Support best practices sharing with MU ASEAN.

Your Profile

Key Requirements

Strong background in demand planning and supply planning of FMCG industry.
A Bachelors Degree or the equivalent plus a minimum of 8 years of related forecasting/supply planning experience and at least 3 year experience working in management level.
S&OP experience is preferable.
Strong analytical skill and leadership skill.
Good for the oral and written in communication skills.
Good command of the English language.
PC Proficiency in Windows Excel Query Power BI PowerPoint and Outlook.
Outstanding relationship building skills with internal & external business partners.
Collaborate with key stakeholders internal and external to identify opportunities for integration of planning process.

Location : Level 12 Tower 1 PJ33 3 Jalan Professor Khoo Kay Kim SeksyenPetaling Jaya Selangor

Required Experience:

Manager