Assistant Manager, Demand Planning & Portfolio Management

Key Responsibilities and Job-Related Characteristics:

1.      Be responsible for integration of in-take forecast flow, trade inventory assumption & converted sell-in forecast flow under S&OP framework.

a)     justify the real market needs with variance end-consumer data benchmark or insights.

b)     assess the trade inventory landing volume and facilitate volume simulation based on DFC.

c)     convert into sell-in forecast and verify the relevant R&O as final output.

d)     Deliver business insights based on trend line analysis and A&P, promotion calendar.

2.      Co-lead Region S&OP (Commercial) collaboration with key stakeholders (sales team leader, sales planning team & finance team) at regional level,

a)     drive the maturity of regional demand forecast quality and focus on stakeholder engagement.

b)     customize demand insight focus by business needs from different channels.

c)     proactively work with regional teams to land HQ initiative

3.      Lead Pre-Demand collaboration with HQ brand team to ensure promotion integration in demand forecast flow and align with finance team on forecast.

a)     Ensure key activation program captured in latest demand forecast and lead the inventory allocation if any supply constraint in place.

b)     Lead the NPL pipeline plan with variance stakeholder (commercial / marketing / supply chain) to ensure transparent progress visibility and raise hand if potential risk of delayed launch in place.

4.      Proactively support the Demand Review and Executive S&OP session by consolidating bottom-up business assumptions, key changes in market context and impact in demand forecast to facilitate fast decision from S&OP members.

5.      Closely collaborate with HQ functions (sales planning, Bottom-up Finance & Top-down Finance team) to land the business action from demand planning perspective.

6.      Support demand planning team for data flow optimization and transformation.

7.      Be strong system power user (Anaplan)

a)     To be master data steward for DP model to ensure both a smooth cycle execution in system as well as smooth data translation to relevant models (like financial model, supply planning model) or systems which need demand planning input.

b)     to own the baseline algorithm enhancement with global team (PR HQ & Anaplan) and apply customized treatment to in-take baseline and sell-in baseline, like history cleansing, promotion impact and allocation constraint.

8.      Be active demand planning POC in terms of

a)     KPI management & regular report delivery

b)     supply chain efficiency enhancement projects.

 

 

Knowledge and Skills Requirements:

 

1.       Solid experience in Supply Chain planning project from consulting firms is a plus.

2.       Has 3 to 4-year experience in sell-out / in-take demand forecast in S&OP or IBP process from FMCG industry

3.       Strong ownership and Can-do mindset are must-have capability to cultivate actionable dialogue across functions, drive alignment for concrete result and deliver continuous enhancement mechanics.

4.       BA degree in Logistics Management, Finance, Accounting, Economics or other related business                                                      

5.       A strong team player with excellent communication, organizational and interpersonal skill, and ability to operate in a matrix environment

6.       Good PPT story telling capability and data modeling skill, power BI modeling is a must have.

7.       Good data analysis skill.

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Target Hire Date:

2026-10-01

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