Senior Regional Demand Planner

Luxasia Group; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Luxasia Group is looking for an experienced Regional Demand Planner based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. This role involves leading demand planning activities for various luxury brands, ensuring stock availability while managing costs. A Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management or related fields is required, along with 5+ years of relevant experience in a regional supply chain environment.

The ideal candidate will possess strong analytical skills, proficiency in SAP and Excel, and the ability to communicate effectively at all organizational levels. Join us to contribute to our goal of achieving Planning Excellence across the region.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in a regional Supply Chain environment.
• In-depth knowledge of demand planning and digitalization.
• Ability to perform complex quantitative analysis in Excel.

Responsibilities

• Lead demand planning activities for multiple brands and regions.
• Build sales forecasts integrating multiple business factors.
• Conduct regular reviews with brands for inventory management.

Skills

Demand planning expertise

Analytical skills

Excel proficiency

Interpersonal skills

Critical thinking

Education

Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Mathematics or Statistics

Tools

SAP

Advanced Planning Systems

Power BI

Job description

LUXASIA is the leading and largest beauty omnichannel brand-builder of Asia Pacific. Since 1986, it has successfully enabled market entry and brand growth for more than 100 luxury beauty brands, the likes of Albion, Aveda, Bvlgari, Calvin Klein, Creed, Diptyque, Hermes, La Prairie, Maison Francis Kurkdjian, Montblanc, Rabanne, Ferragamo, and SK-II. LUXASIA has established Joint Ventures with the likes of LVMH Group, Revlon (for Elizabeth Arden), Puig, Shiseido, and Orveon (for Laura Mercier). The Group's integrated brand-building capabilities include luxury retail, online commerce, consumer marketing & analytics, and supply chain management. LUXASIA is powered by a diverse and dynamic #OneTeam of 2700 talents across a growing footprint of 15 markets.

Why Join Us

At LUXASIA, we believe there is beauty within every talent – that is you. We grow you by building your competencies and unleashing your potential. We have curated a vast portfolio of over 100 luxury brands across Asia Pacific and growing. Your work will enrich the lives of millions of consumers across the region. With us, you get to be an entrepreneur, running the business like it is your very own. We give you autonomy but not without guidance and genuine care. We are a diverse and inclusive team that is courageously innovative. Together as #OneTeam, we celebrate differences, embrace change, explore new ideas, take risks, fail fast, and drive results. While challenges at work are inevitable, the journey promises to be fulfilling.

Overall Role Purpose

We are seeking an experienced regional demand planner, who would like to join our journey of reaching ‘Planning Excellence’ and become the Planning Centre of Excellence. The Regional Demand Planner is responsible for leading all demand planning activities (forecasting and ordering) of a specific portfolio of countries and/or brands, maintaining the optimum balance between service levels (stock availability), cash (stock levels) and replenishment costs.

Key Roles & Responsibilities

• Be the first line of support to Demand Planners in the region
• Provide Demand Planning process and technical subject matter expertise, leadership, and direction to Demand Planning community
• Build Sales forecasts for regions assigned, integrating commercial targets (financial planning, store openings), launch plans, events, seasonality, trends, and products lifecycle.
• Closely work with local Demand Planning Managers to ensure local knowledge is incorporated into the forecasting model.
• Lead S&OP process to align all services on sales forecasts, financial plan, launch and animation plans
• Actively communicate situation on slow moving products / discontinued products to the S&M team to determine inventory reduction plans (markdown operations, returns to vendor etc.) and to ensure minimal ageing stock.
• Conduct regular reviews with key brands to share service rate, supplier fill rate and stock situation, and brainstorm on improvement plans.
• Participate in building a strong foundation and process for Demand sensing & prediction including business intelligence & insight, by working with different scenarios and take different business aspects into consideration.
• Define action plans to improve processes, methods, and tools, and monitor their implementation.
• Co‑ordination of best practice implementation and adherence through process health‑checks
• Responsible for the development and delivery of Demand Planning related trainings to Demand Planning community
• Deliver training and coaching across the planning related functions and at key interfaces

Key Qualifications & Requirements

• Bachelor's degree with a preference in supply chain management, mathematics and/or statistics.
• Demonstrated ability with 5+ years of experience in a regional Supply Chain environment within demand management and digitalization will be appreciated.
• In depth knowledge and experience of SAP, Advanced Planning Systems, and data analytic tools with a passion for digital innovation
• Advanced proficiency with Excel - creating queries and performing complex quantitative analysis to detect correlation and patterns in the data. Knowledge in VBA, Query or Power BI is a plus.
• Critical thinking to understand the big picture and connect the dots with all organizational layers and ongoing projects/improvements.
• High level of interpersonal/relationship skills with the ability to communicate optimally with colleagues and management.
• Analytical capability and data modelling skills; the capability to work with large datasets and develop diagnostic, predictive, and prescriptive analytics models.
• Team player, proactive, and committed to providing high-quality work to support everyone's needs.
• Open to new ideas, driving continuous improvement and challenging status quo.

Championing Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

LUXASIA aspires to build a One Team of talents that reflects the diversity of the communities in our operating markets. LUXASIA is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all individuals, regardless of their race, colour, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, nationality or ethnic origin, cultural background, social group, marital status, or any other characteristics as provided by law.