Country Demand Planning Lead

This role involves overseeing the Demand Planning Management process in the Country and leading the Sales, Inventory, and Operations Process (SIOP Executive Meeting).

The job requires both leadership management and hands-on Demand Supply planning (with Major Demand Planning Skill).

As a leader, you will host the monthly Sales, Inventory, and Operational Process, involving key stakeholders from various business units (HD, PP, DE, IA) as long as under transactional scope.

You will also develop and execute the Demand Plan to meet sales and operational objectives to supports key growth inside each business.

Additionally, you will independently manage stakeholders from different teams and interact with senior executives.

This position is crucial for achieving supply chain objectives and business growth at the same time.

You will also support the full Country Cluster business scope and report to the EA Demand Planner Manager.

Your responsibilities will include improving demand forecast accuracy, maintain the demand planning process, supporting to improve Customer satisfaction in term of forecast quality (top references that related with Customer Services delivery), Forecast Value Added (FVA), influencing supply situations to improve inventory turnover, and ensuring high levels of customer service still consistent manner.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities will include but not limited to:

• Animate the regional monthly collaborative sales forecast process (CSF) for Country Selected full transactional business scope (HD, PP, DE, IA).

Require building the consensus with key business owners with each BU/Product line in charge about future demand outlook, with consideration all related factors such as historical sales, phase in/phase out, cannibalization, causal factor, market trends, seasonality, promotion, inventory level, price changes, lead time & generate statistical following Kinaxis Tools.

• Lead the monthly SIOP with participation of Country President, Business Units VPs, Country CFO, GSC Logistics head, CS&Q Director, and other related function.

Articulate the key demand, inventory and operation challenge in respective BU/Zone or country and facilitate the consensus discussion for solution and decision.

• Supporting Distribution Requirement Planning Process (DRP) with country Supply planner & LoB planner to ensure all the basic parameters like forecast, unhealthy stock, excess, obsolescence Inventory Management must be maintained correctly inside Kinaxis & SAP system.

• Lead & Work together with Logistic Analyst by Weekly related revenue risk with the support from Ops Interlock Process (Backlog analysis & Forecast Analysis)

• Weekly meeting with Commercial team and key customer to have the visibility & support needed/Co-Planning if directed.

• Support the inventory planning, stocking policy & safety stock management.in term of forecasting perspective & do Co-Planning with key customer.

• Make recommended adjustments t...