Category Demand Planner — Lead Global S&OP & Auto Forecasting

King Living, Inc.; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Complimentary onsite parking with EV

Barista coffee

Employee discounts

Job summary

King Living is seeking a Demand Planning & S&OP lead at our Sydney Design & Support Centre. You will own the forecast for multiple categories, consolidate inputs, run trend analysis, and chair the Demand Planning Meeting within our S&OP cycle.

You will collaborate with global factories and suppliers to ensure on-time delivery, manage purchase orders, monitor DIFOT and inventory, and drive continuous improvement through data-driven automation using Power BI, SQL and Python.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5–7 years in demand and supply planning or similar, preferably retail or furniture.
• Experience with vertically integrated, multi-site global manufacturing and import supply chains.
• Proven ability to lead the S&OP process for an assigned category, influencing and managing cross-functional meetings.
• Strong analytical approach – you form independent conclusions from data, knowing stakeholder inputs may carry bias.
• Proficient with Excel, Power BI including DAX, Power Query and SQL, plus hands-on ERP and demand planning systems such as SAP, Dynamics 365 or Netstock.
• Experience working alongside AI assistants and automation tools, with a real appetite to automate routine planning and reporting.
• Strong communication and influencing skills — able to present data-led recommendations to commercial, finance and factory stakeholders.
• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Data Analytics or a related discipline.
• Literacy in Python or similar for data automation is desirable

Responsibilities

• Maintain a valid forecast at volume and gross sales level — consolidating S&OP inputs, running trend analysis, and constructively challenging Commercial.
• Lead the Demand Planning Meeting for your categories.
• Work directly with global factories and third-party suppliers so product arrives on time and in full.
• Place purchase and supply orders in line with lead times to support the agreed supply plan.
• Own and deliver DIFOT, inventory and forecast accuracy. Drive inventory reduction, including active management of slow-moving and obsolete stock before it becomes a write-off.
• Plan at the right level of the product hierarchy on a regular basis, and help develop the systems the global planning network actually runs on.
• Support NPD and EPD projects so supply readiness and lead time accuracy are built into launch planning from the start.
• Be the agent for better process. Use data-led analysis, redesign and automation to lift supply chain efficiency across the global network.

Skills

Demand planning

S&OP process

Forecasting

Excel

Power BI

SQL

Python

ERP systems

Education

Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain or related

Tools

SAP

Dynamics 365

Netstock

Job description

King Living is seeking a Demand Planning & S&OP lead at our Sydney Design & Support Centre. You will own the forecast for multiple categories, consolidate inputs, run trend analysis, and chair the Demand Planning Meeting within our S&OP cycle.

You will collaborate with global factories and suppliers to ensure on-time delivery, manage purchase orders, monitor DIFOT and inventory, and drive continuous improvement through data-driven automation using Power BI, SQL and Python.