Assistant Demand Planning Manager

Want to be right at the heart of things? As a Assistant Demand Planning Manager with Reckitt, you’ll have the freedom to influence and improve operations at every step.**Assistant Demand Planning Manager**

**Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur**

**Competitive Salary & excellent benefits package**
- Pivotal to our ability to deliver on our commitments, you’ll be responsible for accurate demand forecasting. From planning production to purchasing finished goods and forecasting future revenue. You’ll take new information - such as sales or promotional activity - and historic trends and understand the impact on demand. You’ll challenge when necessary. Critically, you’ll provide clear communication between our sales, finance, supply and manufacturing teams.**You’ll succeed because**
- you’re passionate about customer service and know how to manage complex supply chains. You have delivered outstanding results in a planning or similar role. You’re able to work with a wide range of data - promotional, run rates, trends and seasonality - and use demand planning software and your own judgement to achieve alignment. Importantly, you’re self-motivated and able to collaborate effectively to influence other teams.**You’ll love it because**
- you’ll get to make an impact like never before. You’ll be responsible for your own projects - we can’t wait to listen to your ideas. The products you help us get out there will make people’s lives better. Our iconic brands will provide an incredible platform for you. And our dynamic, ownership-driven culture will help bring the very best out of you, every day.**Responsibilities**:

- Generates new forecasts by reviewing historical trends, promotion calendar, and activities available from commercial team;
- To lead meetings with commercial team within the S&OP process to produce unbiased forecast, gap identification or closure with sound facts and communicate supply constraints or business risks;
- To challenge forecasts when necessary based on trend analysis, MAPE & BIAS data, promotional and media phasing etc;
- Updates, produces and publishes reports including the monthly forecast accuracy report, S&OP Gap initial and final reports. Provide SKU volumes to Finance for Business Forecasts and Plan;
- Ensure out of plan issues are communicated in advance using the S&OP process to allow business alignment with relevant action points to address the issues;
- Ensuring business waste is kept mínimal for product relaunches or promotions.

**Qualifications and Skills**:

- University degree related to the field of Supply Chain or Engineering
- Minimum 3 years’ experience in demand planning and determine priorities in a highly pressured working environment
- Knowledge on SAP APO, SNP is a must, JD Edwards can be added knowledge
- Customer centric and with strong customer service mindset
- Highly analytical and fact-based decision making
- Able to work independently, think logically, challenge status quo, and consistently seek to improve current way of working to seek of productivity
- Able to manage multiple priorities in a rapid change environment
- Team working ability
- High levels of motivation to get the job done
- Good understanding of the FMCG nature and business
- Good interpersonal skills and strong command of both written and spoken English

**Equality**:
At Reckitt, we recognise that in real life, great people don’t always ‘tick all the boxes’. That’s why we hire for potential as well as experience. Even if you don’t meet every point on the job description, if this role and our company feels like a good fit for you, we still want to hear from you. Come and join a team whose purpose is to protect, heal and nurture in the relentless pursuit of a cleaner and healthier world.

All qualified applicants to Reckitt will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, disability or medical condition; colour, ethnicity, race, citizenship, and national origin; religion, faith; pregnancy, family status and caring responsibilities; sexual orientation; sex, gender identity, gender expression, and transgender identity; protected veteran status; size or any other basis protected by appropriate law.