Manager - Demand & Supply Planning - Bangalore

Lenovo; Bengaluru Urban; On-site; INR 1,000,000 - 1,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Lenovo in Bengaluru is seeking a planning professional to lead end-to-end demand and supply planning for its Consumer Product portfolio, driving forecast accuracy and inventory health.

You will collaborate with Sales, Category, and distribution teams to align plans, manage replenishment, and monitor KPIs, ensuring product availability across channels.

Join Lenovo to contribute to digital planning initiatives and drive operational excellence across the network.

Qualifications

• Experience in demand planning and forecasting for consumer product portfolios.
• Experience coordinating with sales, category, and distribution teams.
• Ability to drive forecast accuracy and inventory optimizations.

Responsibilities

• Own demand planning for the Consumer Product portfolio across categories.
• Analyze market signals, trends, and promotions to forecast demand.
• Partner with Sales/Category to align short-, mid-, and long-term plans.
• Improve forecasting methods, tools, and processes for accuracy.
• Lead monthly demand reviews with key stakeholders.
• Manage supply planning and replenishment for channel availability.
• Collaborate with supply and fulfillment teams to mitigate shortages.
• Drive service levels and product availability targets.
• Establish inventory norms and safety stock policies.

Skills

Demand planning

Forecasting

Supply planning

Inventory management

Business analytics

Cross-functional collaboration

Channel planning

Strategic initiatives

Job description

We are Lenovo. We do what we say. We own what we do. We WOW our customers.

Lenovo is a US$83 billion revenue global technology powerhouse, ranked #153 in the Fortune Global 500, and serving millions of customers every day in 180 markets. Focused on a bold vision to deliver Smarter Technology for All, Lenovo has built on its success as the world’s largest PC company with a full-stack portfolio of AI-enabled, AI-ready, and AI-optimized devices (PCs, workstations, smartphones, tablets), infrastructure (server, storage, edge, high performance computing and software defined infrastructure), software, solutions, and services. Lenovo’s continued investment in world-changing innovation is building a more equitable, trustworthy, and smarter future for everyone, everywhere. Lenovo is listed on the Hong Kong stock exchange under Lenovo Group Limited (HKSE: 992) (ADR: LNVGY).

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Key Responsibilities

Demand Planning Forecasting

• Own demand planning process for the Consumer Product portfolio across all categories.
• Analyze market demand signals, sales trends, channel inventory, promotions, and business plans to develop accurate forecasts.
• Partner with Sales and Category teams to align short-term, medium-term, and long-term demand plans.
• Drive continuous improvement in forecasting methodologies, tools, and processes to enhance forecast accuracy.
• Lead monthly demand reviews and consensus forecasting discussions with key stakeholders.

Supply Planning Fulfillment

• Manage supply planning and replenishment to ensure optimum product availability across channels.
• Ensure timely loading of long-term forecasts and replenishment orders as per planning calendar.
• Collaborate closely with AP supply demand and fulfillment teams to secure supply and mitigate shortages.
• Proactively identify supply risks and develop mitigation plans to minimize business disruption.
• Drive achievement of service-level and product availability targets.

Inventory Management

• Own inventory health across Lenovo finished goods inventory and Tier-1 distribution partners.
• Establish and manage inventory norms, safety stock policies, and coverage targets.
• Optimize inventory investments while minimizing excess, ageing, and obsolete inventory.
• Lead inventory review forums and recommend actions to improve overall inventory productivity.

Sales Business Alignment

• Partner with Sales teams to align quarterly guidance, sell-through plans, and allocation strategies.
• Lead monthly demand and indent review discussions to establish market-wise planning assumptions.
• Share and review sell-through coverage and performance metrics with business teams.
• Continuously drive improvements in sell-through planning accuracy and execution.

Channel Distributor Planning

• Work closely with Distribution teams and Tier-1 partners to improve channel planning effectiveness.
• Provide distributor-level sell-in projections and planning guidance.
• Lead product roadmap and inventory planning discussions with channel partners.
• Support initiatives to improve channel inventory efficiency and reduce ageing inventory.

Business Performance Analytics

• Develop and present regular planning dashboards and KPI reviews for senior leadership.
• Monitor demand-supply performance, forecast accuracy, inventory turns, service levels, and fulfillment metrics.
• Generate actionable business insights and recommend corrective actions to improve operational performance.
• Support SOP and business planning processes through data-driven analysis.

Strategic Cross-Functional Initiatives

• Drive Make-in-India planning requirements and inventory localization objectives.
• Identify and lead process improvement and automation initiatives across planning operations.
• Contribute to digital transformation, planning excellence, and supply chain optimization projects.
• Champion best practices in demand and supply planning.

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