Demand & Supply Planner (End-to-End Planning using Excel in Manufacturing)

CPH Internationl LLC; Manila; On-site; PHP 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Starbond is seeking a highly analytical Demand & Supply Planner with 5+ years of hands-on experience across forecasting, supply planning, inventory optimization, MRP, and production planning. This role owns planning from end to end.

You will develop a reliable consensus demand forecast, convert it into inventory and material requirements, and create executable purchasing, production, and distribution plans.

Qualifications

• At least five years of hands-on experience covering both demand planning and supply planning, including inventory, materials, or production planning.
• Demonstrated ownership of a rolling SKU-level forecast and the ability to translate it into an executable supply plan.
• Strong knowledge of reorder-point logic, safety-stock modeling, lead-time variability, service levels, and inventory optimization.
• Advanced Excel skills, including structured tables, XLOOKUP or INDEX/MATCH, SUMIFS, PivotTables, conditional logic, data validation, error controls, and scenario modeling.

Responsibilities

• Own the SKU- and channel-level demand forecast across Amazon, Shopify, and B2B.
• Develop rolling forecasts using sales history, seasonality, promotions, customer commitments, product life cycles, channel plans, market intelligence, and future business assumptions.
• Partner with Sales, Marketing, Finance, and leadership to gather forecast inputs, challenge assumptions, resolve differences, and establish a documented consensus demand plan.
• Translate the approved demand forecast into time-phased inventory, purchasing, production, and distribution requirements.
• Establish and maintain SKU-level reorder points, safety stock, order quantities, and inventory targets.
• Build, maintain, audit, and improve an Excel-based MRP and replenishment system.
• Lead or support a structured monthly S&OP planning cycle connecting demand, supply, inventory, capacity, and financial considerations.

Skills

Demand planning

Supply planning

Inventory optimization

MRP/ERP

Forecasting methods

BOM explosion

Tools

Excel

MRP system

Job description

About the role

Starbond is seeking a highly analytical and proactive Demand & Supply Planner with at least five years of hands-on experience across the complete planning cycle: demand forecasting, supply planning, inventory optimization, material requirements planning (MRP), and production planning. This role owns planning from end to end. You will develop a reliable consensus demand forecast, convert it into inventory and material requirements, and create executable purchasing, production, and distribution plans. You will monitor actual performance, identify changes and risks, and continuously revise the plan based on new information. The successful candidate must be able to build, audit, and improve an Excel-based planning and MRP tool from the ground up. You will connect channel forecasts, bills of materials, inventory, open purchase orders, supplier lead times, capacity, and production requirements into one dependable planning process.

Key responsibilities

• Own the SKU- and channel-level demand forecast across Amazon, Shopify, and B2B.

• Develop rolling forecasts using sales history, seasonality, promotions, customer commitments, product life cycles, channel plans, market intelligence, and future business assumptions.

• Partner with Sales, Marketing, Finance, and leadership to gather forecast inputs, challenge assumptions, resolve differences, and establish a documented consensus demand plan.

• Separate baseline demand from promotional, event-driven, new-product, and one-time demand.

• Track forecast accuracy and bias by SKU and channel, investigate material variances, and improve forecasting methods over time.

• Translate the approved demand forecast into time-phased inventory, purchasing, production, and distribution requirements.

• Establish and maintain SKU-level reorder points, safety stock, order quantities, and inventory targets.

• Build, maintain, audit, and improve an Excel-based MRP and replenishment system.

• Perform BOM explosion by converting finished-goods demand into component, packaging, and raw-material requirements.

• Lead or support a structured monthly S&OP planning cycle connecting demand, supply, inventory, capacity, and financial considerations.

About you

• At least five years of hands-on experience covering both demand planning and supply planning, including inventory, materials, or production planning.

• Demonstrated ownership of a rolling SKU-level forecast and the ability to translate it into an executable supply plan.

• Strong understanding of forecasting methods, seasonality, promotions, forecast accuracy, forecast bias, consensus planning, and scenario analysis.

• Demonstrated experience building or substantially redesigning an MRP, inventory-planning, or replenishment tool in Excel.

• Strong knowledge of reorder-point logic, safety-stock modeling, lead-time variability, service levels, and inventory optimization.

• Practical experience with BOM explosion and raw-material or component planning.

• Advanced Excel skills, including structured tables, XLOOKUP or INDEX/MATCH, SUMIFS, PivotTables, conditional logic, data validation, error controls, and scenario modeling.

• Strong analytical and critical-thinking skills, with the ability to challenge assumptions constructively.

• Excellent written and spoken English.

• Strong ownership, emotional intelligence, attention to detail, and proactive communication.

About us

Starbond is a growing adhesive company committed to excellence, customer centricity, curiosity, humility, and continuous improvement. We sell through Amazon, Shopify, and B2B channels and are strengthening our supply chain planning capabilities to support reliable product availability and scalable growth.