Demand Planning Manager

Coca-Cola Beverages Singapore, Malaysia & Brunei; Selangor; On-site; MYR 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading beverage company in Malaysia is seeking a skilled professional in sales analytics and supply chain planning. The role involves the use of analytical data to forecast product demands, coordinate new product development, and monitor sales trends. Candidates should have at least 5-7 years of experience in supply chain planning and possess strong analytical skills. A degree in Business Management focused on supply chain is preferred. This position offers an opportunity to impact business strategies significantly.

Qualifications

• Minimum Degree in Business Management with Supply Chain/Logistics focus preferred or any other relevant field.
• At least 5 - 7 years’ experience in Sales Analytic / Supply Chain Planning Department.
• Strong Excel & experience in Power BI is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Use analytical, marketing, and sales data to estimate future product demands.
• Coordinate New Product Development (NPD) for timely execution.
• Monitor and report changes in sales forecasts and business strategies.
• Lead determination of forecasting methods and model history usage.

Skills

Analytical skills

Sales analytics

Forecasting solutions

Root cause analysis

Excel proficiency

Power BI

Education

Minimum Degree in Business Management with Supply Chain/Logistics focus

Tools

SAP

Business Intelligence (BI)

Job description

Position Purpose

• Use analytical, marketing, and sales data to effectively estimate future product demands, analyzing inventory flow and generating forecasting solutions
• Responsible to fulfill customers demand cost effectively
• Lead Sales & Operations Execution (S&OE) to continually achieve focus & alignment on forecast plan, inventory plan & exposure risk (if any)

Key Duties/Responsibilities

• Validate & maintain sales history and coordinate with Demand Creation department (Sales & Marketing) to ensure understanding of and inclusion of future promotional information and new products in forecast.
• Review forecast with Regional Sales Manager / Key Account Manager with fact-based discussion, trend, marketing building block, Average Daily Sales etc.
• Responsible on weekly operational forecast generation & adjustment with sales & marketing team.
• Coordinate New Product Development (NPD) to ensure the right timing of outage.
• Conduct demand planning portion of weekly S&OE meeting. Decision making for 13 weeks supply plan if got any risk on Out of Stock.
• Responsible to identify total company volume gap – rolling estimate vs target with risk assessments and mitigation activities.
• Monitor and report important changes in sales forecasts, trade offer plans & business strategies.
• Analyze weekly Forecast Accuracy, conduct root cause analysis of error and lead or support resolution.
• Timely update on daily, weekly & monthly reports.
• Measure and benchmark demand planning process in order to improve the accuracy of demand management.
• Lead determination of forecasting methods, modeling history to use, and most likely demand curves for new product introductions and discontinuation.
• Monitor overstock by connecting sales & marketing on clearance plan as well as warehouse on execution to minimize write off.
• Support on improving fulfilment rate by monitoring stock level of “transition” SKU (generic & promo SKU, new formula SKU) and discontinued SKU. Lead the communication to sales, logistic (sales admin), warehouse and NPD.
• Provide supply chain expertise to external parties (e.g., Sales & Marketing, Warehouse, Logistic) in order to influence business strategies and decisions
• Responsible to keep a clean, accurate and readily available database of demand and supply chain information to be used in working file
• Responsible on Brunei forecast, order plan & execution part

Qualification Criteria

• Minimum Degree in Business Management with Supply Chain/Logistics focus preferred or any other relevant field.
• At least 5 - 7 years’ experience in Sales Analytic / Supply Chain Planning Department.
• Knowledge and use of existing information Systems (SAP & BI) to generate necessary data.
• Ability to conduct root cause analysis; evaluate statistical signals; determine data errors and ability to fix.
• Strong Excel & experience in power BI is a plus

We regret to inform only shortlisted candidates will be notified.