
Demand Planner
- Bangsar South, Kuala Lumpur
- Temporary
- Full-time
- Develop and maintain accurate demand forecasts using historical sales data, market trends, and statistical models within our global Planning tool Kinaxis Maestro.
- This includes appropriately cleansing historical events, running robust statistical modelling, and deciding what is appropriate Intelligence to add looking forward.
- Monitor and analyze Demand planning KPI’s like forecast accuracy, forecast value add, forecast bias etc.
- Provide insights on demand trends, seasonality, and risks to improve planning accuracy.
- Support the Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) process by presenting the updated demand insights along with key changes to assumptions, working with the market S&OP Manager
- Participate and provide relevant inputs in the weekly S&OE & monthly S&OP meetings.
- Collaborate with other market teams and global Demand Planning Excellence lead to ensure adoption of required global frameworks and best practices.
- Continuously improve demand planning processes through data-driven insights and best practices.
- Proven experience as a Demand Planner using an advanced digital Planning tool.
- Strong analytical skills and proficiency in supply chain software (Kinaxis Maestro highly desirable) and ERP systems (SAP ECC, S4 Hana, JDE)
- Strong communication skills both written and verbal with the ability to work effectively with Commercial and Sales teams based in other countries
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a dynamic and fast-paced environment.
- 5+ yrs of experience in a similar role.
- Either have Strong English or Mandarin language skills - Essential
- Experience in sales & operation process
- Have in depth experience of planning tools eg SAP
- To be able to start in August (Preferred)
- Post graduate degree preferably MBA but not essential
- Proven experience in a similar role as Demand Planner in a large business/Corporate environment