Assistant Manager, Demand Planning

Reponsibilities

Forecast Development:

• Generate demand plans for assigned brands, ensuring alignment with business objectives.
• Validate brand cluster demand trends and key sales driver assumptions, entering accurate inputs into forecasting systems for effective modeling and analysis.
• Conduct monthly reviews of demand trends and sales driver assumptions to ensure the accuracy and reasonableness of demand plans across multiple aggregation levels, factoring in different sales channels.
• Maintain robust demand plans by optimizing the use of statistical forecasting models and incorporating relevant sales drivers for assigned brands at the Cluster levels.
• Ensure timely adjustments based on emerging sales trends, with a particular focus on new product launches and market fluctuations.

Forecast Alignment:

• Ensure a comprehensive view of demand across both Basic and New SKUs.
• Facilitate Brand Consensus meetings, providing insights into demand trends, validating sales driver assumptions, and sharing scenario planning based on risk and opportunity assessments.
• Facilitate and Coordinate the gap management process to address variances between demand plans, supply plans, and Latest Estimates (LE) and capturing major differences as part of risk and opportunity management.
• Implement a standardized process for sales driver reviews, ensuring the most accurate and current market intelligence is integrated into the demand plans.
• Interface with Brand General Managers and DP Sr. Manager (as needed) to resolve demand imbalances and shape demand, particularly in scenarios of constrained supply.
• Prepare detailed reports, scenarios, and recommendations to support IBP on a monthly basis, and provide insights to the IBP as needed.
• Collaborate with brand/commercial teams to manage and shape demand if/when required.

KPI & Process Improvement Management:

• Oversee the management of key demand planning metrics such as WFA, Bias, Attainment and FVA for the assigned brands.
• Propose improvement plans and look for opportunities to enhance WFA performance by optimizing the adoption of statistical forecasting and sales drivers, conducting root-cause analyses to address gaps

Requirements

• Bachelor Degree in Business, Supply Chain or others
• 5 relevant working experience