Global Demand Planner: Oracle SCM & S&OP Lead

COHERENT; Penang; On-site; MYR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Coherent Corp. in Penang seeks an experienced Demand Planner to develop and maintain forecasts for telecom products using Oracle Cloud SCM, coordinating with Sales, Product Management, Operations, and Finance to align demand with supply.

You will lead monthly planning cycles, analyze trends, and drive improvements in forecast accuracy while ensuring data integrity and cross‑functional collaboration across global teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field.
• Approximately 5–8 years of experience in demand planning, supply planning, S&OP, or supply‑chain analysis.
• Experience in a manufacturing environment, preferably telecommunications, electronics, semiconductors, or other tech‑intensive industry.
• Demonstrated experience developing forecasts and managing demand‑planning processes across multiple products, customers, or regions.
• Strong knowledge of S&OP/SIOP principles, forecasting methods, inventory planning, and supply‑chain fundamentals.
• Hands‑on experience with Oracle Cloud SCM, Oracle Demand Management, or comparable enterprise planning applications; Oracle Cloud experience preferred.
• Ability to configure, maintain, and improve planning inputs, forecast profiles, item/customer hierarchies, exception messages, and planning outputs within an enterprise planning system.
• Strong analytical, problem‑solving, organizational, and prioritization skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication in English.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with cross‑functional and international teams.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain statistical and consensus demand forecasts for Transport and Transmission products in Oracle Cloud SCM.
• Consolidate demand inputs from Sales, Product Management, Customer Service, and regional teams into the Oracle Cloud planning process.
• Analyze historical demand, orders, shipment trends, backlog, inventory, market conditions, and product life cycles.
• Lead the monthly demand‑planning process in Oracle Cloud SCM and contribute to the S&OP/SIOP cycle.
• Identify forecast risks, demand changes, supply constraints, and gaps between customer requirements and capacity.
• Align forecasts with production plans, material availability, and capacity with Supply Planning and Operations.
• Monitor forecast accuracy, bias, order‑book coverage, and demand volatility.
• Investigate variances and implement actions to improve forecast quality and planning effectiveness.
• Support new product introductions, transitions, engineering changes, end‑of‑life planning, and ramp schedules.
• Maintain demand‑planning master data, planning parameters, product hierarchies, forecasting assumptions, and system inputs in Oracle Cloud SCM.
• Provide reporting and recommendations on demand trends, risks, opportunities, and actions.

Skills

Forecasting

S&OP

Cross-functional collaboration

English communication

Data analysis

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Operations, Industrial Engineering, Business, Analytics, or related field

Tools

Oracle Cloud SCM

Oracle Demand Management

Power BI

SQL

Excel

Job description

Coherent Corp. in Penang seeks an experienced Demand Planner to develop and maintain forecasts for telecom products using Oracle Cloud SCM, coordinating with Sales, Product Management, Operations, and Finance to align demand with supply.

You will lead monthly planning cycles, analyze trends, and drive improvements in forecast accuracy while ensuring data integrity and cross‑functional collaboration across global teams.