Regional Demand Planning Manager

6 months ago


Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Straumann Full time

**Job Purpose**:
**This position locates in Kuala Lumpur and focus on China first, meanwhile cover all APAC region.**:
**The Regional Demand Planning Manager is responsible to analyze, challenge and align country sales forecasts, prepare regional demand plans in alignment/agreement with the country organizations, and to maintain regional demand plans in ANAPLAN for global consolidation.**:
**The Regional Demand Planning Manager will establish & maintain communication flow with commercial organizations, finance, and operations to ensure that market sales/demands are consistent and balanced with local supply to meet customer requirements and in line with overall global business strategy and financial targets.**:
**Main Tasks and Responsibilities**:
Run regional demand review process:

- Facilitates region demand review meeting.
- Involves Sales and Marketing teams and ensures their accountability in demand review process.
- Influences/challenges stakeholders to validate the proposed forecasts, based on qualitative and quantitative analyses.
- Identifies and challenges stakeholders on S&OP decisions needs.
- Completes Local & Regional demand planning (w/ Anaplan), under a global platform including AI tools to predict future demand trends.
- Documents demand risks and opportunities (at customer level if relevant).
- Steers demand forecast accuracy and applies corrective action plan.
- Reconciles forecast variance analysis with business trends and recommends progress plans to organization.
- Maintains demand review process maturity and facilitates the progress plan.
- Builds local competency if need.

Run regional S&OP and regional S&OE processes:

- Leads weekly regional S&OE / Co-lead weekly global S&OE discussion.
- Leads monthly regional S&OP / Co-lead monthly global S&OP executive meeting.
- Reviews of demand planning outcome with the Global team for consolidation
- Challenges business assumptions (supply, demand, inventory) which feeds the process, based on the relevant data analysis.
- Identifies and challenges stakeholders on S&OP decisions needs.
- Guarantees decision making.
- Defines, recommends and aligns stakeholders on new plans (demand, supply, inventory).
- Provides validated demand & supply plan.
- Provides validated inventory plan (including prebuild volumes) and sales plan.
- Identifies opportunities and risk through analysis of demand trends, supply proposals and inventory projections.
- Proposes arbitration and what if scenarios with related facts and analysis against corporate priorities.
- Provides operational advice and guidance to executive teams and their staffs in the different S&OP process steps and ensure their accountability.
- Closely monitors supply issues (e.g. stock outs and bottlenecks) in collaboration with Global Supply Network planning and identify impact on demand.
- Conducts post-mortems and lessons learned when relevant.
- Maintains S&OP process maturity and progress plan.
- Guarantees communication to operations.

**Requirements needed**:
**Education and experience**:

- Bachelor’s degree in business administration and a postgraduate certificate in a supply chain management discipline preferred.
- 10+ years of relevant working experience in supply chain, logistics, especially in S&OP
- APICS Certification highly preferred (current certification with CPIM or CSCP).
- Digital mindset and knowledge in emerging digital technologies (e.g. RPA, Blockchain, AI, IoT etc.) is an asset.
- Expertise in Microsoft Excel is essential.
- Fluent in English

**Personal Attributes**:

- Willing to work under pressure to build the processes from 0 to 1.
- Strong analytical skills together with business acumen
- Good communication and collaboration skills. Ability to partner with and influence others without direct authority, build consensus, and look for collaboration with people from different departments and all levels.
- Highly organized and well prepared
- Proactive attitude and approach to problem-solving - “can-do” mindset
- Works independently on complex issues.
- Ability to work on tight deadlines and prioritize.
- Strong listening and influencing skills.
- Travel time in APAC region: 30%-50% at the starting phase.



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