Associate Demand Planner

VF Corp.; Asia; On-site; PEN 275,000 - 378,000; Full time

Job summary

VF Corp. is seeking a strategic planner to drive pre-season forecast alignment across APAC, balancing demand with supply and ensuring on-time launches.

You will partner with merchandising, buying, and supply planning to translate assortment strategies into actionable forecasts and optimize buy gates for productivity, with a strong emphasis on data analysis and cross-functional collaboration.

Qualifications

• Excellent English communication skills with ability to coordinate across cultures.
• Mandarin language proficiency to engage stakeholders in China and APAC markets.
• Strong problem solving and solution-driven mindset in complex environments.
• Curiosity to challenge status quo and drive actionable outcomes.
• Ability to communicate clearly and influence decision makers across teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead pre-season forecast at APAC level, aligning with GTM calendar and brand planning.
• Manage key collections and collaborations from demand consolidation to on-time launch.
• Coordinate with merchandising, buying, and supply planning to balance demand and supply.
• Support monthly buy gate alignment and productivity improvements with global directions.
• Analyze seasonal orders and communicate variances to balance with original plans.

Skills

English proficiency

Mandarin proficiency

Job description

As a key role to roll out pre-season forecast in alignment with the GTM calendar, ensuring demand plans support business needs and seasonal priorities. Manage key collections, including collaborations and SMUs, with end-to-end visibility from demand consolidation through on-time launch. Partner closely with merchandising, buying, and supply planning teams to balance demand and supply.

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES WILL INCLUDE:

• To accomplish pre-season forecast at APAC level, collaborate with merchandising team to understand product and assortment strategy as key insights to forecast management, influence marketplaces for future buy governance
• To take charge of key collections from demand consolidation through on-time launch with marketplaces and merchandising team.
• To partner with global brand planning and supply planning for driving MOQ alignment at monthly buy gate, achieve better productivity as global direction
• To assist report out and analysis after seasonal order consolidation, focus on variance sharing and action to balance with original plan and actual business requirements
• Strong excel user to analyze performance and simply internal communication

WHAT WE WILL BE LOOKING FOR IN YOU:

• You are curious to view problems as opportunities and have ability to drive solutions under complex circumstances
• You are aspiring to bring new ideas to the state quo and make it come true, by influencing people
• You are courageous and able to identify risks while working out options to tackle the challenges
• You persevere to drive executions by aligning communications, accountabilities, capabilities, process and measure across the organization to achieve results

Language Proficiency:

Excellent English and Mandarin (most of the stakeholder are based in China)

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