Senior Demand Planner

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Demand Planner Senior

Job Description:

Responsible for executing demand planning processes, ensuring effective communication with stakeholders, leading S&OP meetings, and contributing to continuous improvement initiatives that impact KPIs (primary: forecast accuracy; secondary: on-time delivery/stock availability and inventory management/DIO).

Key Accountabilities:

· Execute the daily, weekly and monthly demand planning processes (i.e. demand outlier adjustments, new parts, etc.) to fine tune the forecast to achieve forecast accuracy and customer delivery targets.

· Lead the Monthly Forecast Consensus S&OP meeting to reach a consensus with business partners on the sales demand forecast by facilitating a collaborative planning process.

· Collect data from internal and external sources such as customers’ forecast and data/market intelligence that are known to impact demand.

· Obtaining information and details on occurrences that could impact demand like promotions, new customers/parts.

· Developing demand forecasts at multiple levels of aggregation for multiple time horizons (rolling forecast).

· Coordinating and seeking cross-functional enquiries activities to reconcile forecast variances (outliers-items).

· Refining systems, processes, and methods to improve demand forecasts to better anticipate customer needs and forecast accuracy.

· Provide reporting and analysis on the full breadth of Supply Chain Performance, including Backorders, Backlog, DIO, OTD, Forecast Accuracy KPI and forecast bias.

· Ability to manage larger and more complex locations

· Develop & train in best practices

Education Qualification:

· Bachelor’s degree in business, Supply Chain Management, or a related field

· Minimum of 2-4 years of experience in demand planning.

Technical Competence & Skills:

· Experience using Demand Planning software and ERP systems (Oracle) is preferred.

· Solid understand of common industry-wide supply chain planning processes is preferred.

· Self-starter, able to work under minimum supervision.

· Self-motivated and result orientated.

· Strong analytical, quantitative, and qualitative skills, with the ability to interpret and translate data into actionable strategies.

· Ability to thrive in a fast-paced and dynamic environment, adapting to changing priorities.

Others (% of travel, language, etc.):

· We are seeking a candidate with excellent verbal and written communication skills in English. Japanese or Mandarin are preferred but not required.

· We are committed to diversity and inclusion and encourage individuals of all backgrounds to apply.

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