Demand Planner

3M; Petaling Jaya; On-site; MYR 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A global technology and innovation company is seeking a Demand Planner in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia. The successful candidate will create unbiased demand plans with high accuracy, leverage market intelligence, and manage demand planning exceptions. The role requires strong analytical and leadership skills, with a minimum of a bachelor’s degree and relevant experience in supply chain. This position is permanent and requires on-site presence at least four days a week.

Qualifications

• Minimum of two years of experience in Supply Chain, Transportation & Logistics, Customer Service, and/or Marketing.
• Preferred: Minimum of five years of experience in relevant fields.

Responsibilities

• Create an unbiased demand plan with high accuracy.
• Gather and apply market intelligence to demand plan.
• Manage demand planning exceptions.
• Leverage forecast performance metrics tools.
• Participate in the Integrated Business Planning process.
• Manage product life cycle aspects in demand planning.
• Maintain data integrity in the demand planning system.
• Recommend optimal settings for forecast consumption parameters.
• Plan intercompany requirements during interim-state.
• Provide oversight for the global demand plan.
• Support Supply and Production Planning organization.

Skills

Analytical skills

Leadership skills

Communication skills

Interpersonal skills

Self-motivational skills

Experience in Demand Planning

Education

Bachelor’s degree or higher

Tools

Excel

Minitab

Job description

3M has a long-standing reputation as a company committed to innovation. We provide the freedom to explore and encourage curiosity and creativity. We gain new insight from diverse thinking, and take risks on new ideas. Here, you can apply your talent in bold ways that matter.

Job Description

The person hired for the position of Demand Planner will be responsible for creating the demand plan that is critical for planning material flow throughout the supply chain. The focus of the Demand Planner is creating an unbiased demand plan with the highest accuracy possible.

Primary Responsibilities

• Gathering and applying market intelligence to the demand plan. Market intelligence may come from sales, marketing, key accounts, and other sources including management of any intelligence received via EDI
• Managing demand planning exceptions related to out of control demand, forecast bias, unusual month to date demand, etc.
• Leveraging forecast performance metrics tools to measure accuracy, assess the quality and frequency of overrides, assess forecast bias, and identify and address the largest sources of forecast error
• Participating in the Integrated Business Planning (IBP) process with a particular focus on the alignment between the demand plan and the business plan (OP/QOR)
• Managing the demand planning aspects of the product life cycle (new products, end of life, and phase-in / phase-out)
• Maximizing the effectiveness of the statistical forecast by adjusting/cleansing historical demand and determining appropriate levels of aggregation for calculating the statistical forecast
• Maintaining data integrity in the demand planning system by performing needed realignments and removing obsolete data
• Recommend optimal settings for forecast consumption parameters that govern the way in which the forecast is netted by sales orders
• Planning intercompany requirements from non-deployed countries (“Rest Of World” or “ROW” demand) during interim-state
• Providing oversight for the global demand plan to ensure integrity of the global plan. This applies to items sourced in the demand planner’s home country/region, but sold in multiple countries/regions and demand planned by multiple demand planners around the world
• Supports the Supply and Production Planning organization through key inputs for development of inventory strategies on existing items, new products, and product phase-outs.
• Supports Business Group LSS initiatives through data analytics and continuous process improvement

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher from an accredited university
• Minimum of two (2) years of experience in Supply Chain, Transportation & Logistics, Customer Service, and/or Marketing

Preferred Qualifications

• Minimum of five (5) years of experience in Supply Chain, Transportation & Logistics, Customer Service and/or Marketing
• Experience in Demand Planning
• Knowledge of Supply Planning (SP), Production Planning (PP), and/or Integrated Business Planning (IBP) processes
• Analytical skills and knowledge of analytical tools (Excel, Minitab, etc.)
• Strong leadership, communication, interpersonal, and self-motivational skills
• Experience working on cross-functional and international teams
• APICS (American Production and Inventory Control Society) certification
• Experience representing the supply chain organization on business teams
• Experience utilizing LSS methodologies

Worker type: Permanent

Target Location:

This role has on-site working model, with the employee working at least 4 days per week in the 3M locations

• Woodlands, Singapore
• Bangkok, Thailand
• Ho Chi Min, Vietnam
• Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia