Assistant Manager Tactical Demand Planning & Reporting, SEA

adidas Singapore Pte Ltd; Singapore; On-site; SGD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A global sports company in Singapore is seeking a professional to support the E2E Integrated Business Planning process and manage inventory for Southeast Asia. Responsibilities include enhancing IBP tools and reports, ensuring data accuracy, and collaborating across teams. The ideal candidate has at least 5 years of experience, strong analytical skills, and proficiency in tools like Excel and Power BI. This role offers a chance to drive business change and engage with key stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Support the E2E monthly IBP process by managing and enhancing the IBP database.
• Ensure monthly IBP system submissions meet global requirements and align with market.
• Monitor financial figures and provide SEA view for planning.
• Support inventory management for SEA and key reporting for demand planning.

Skills

Data proficiency with attention to detail

Advanced reporting skills

Advanced technical skills (Excel, Power BI, Power Pivot)

Analytical skill and insight

Interpersonal/presentation skills

Commercial and business acumen

Education

University graduate or equivalent professional experience

Minimum 5 years work experience

Minimum 2 years finance and/or planning/forecasting experience

Tools

Excel

Power BI

Power Pivot

Job description

PURPOSE & OVERALL RELEVANCE IN THE ORGANIZATION

Support the E2E Integrated Business Planning (IBP) process and inventory management for South East Asia (6 countries), and managing key reports for Demand Planning Team. Foster cross-functional collaboration to achieve one committed plan, consistent with our mission and strategy

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Support the E2E monthly IBP process
  • Manage and continuously enhance the IBP database, tools and reports to optimize the planning environment for key stakeholders, enabling them for better decision making
  • Fully accountable for monthly IBP system submission, ensuring submission meets global requirements and market’s alignment by validating data integrity and cleansing data when needed
  • Manage consolidation of countries input to provide SEA view
  • Grasp key financial figures of IBP (Net sales, Go in margin, pricing, volumes), financial plan and operational data (business on hand, buy, range plan)
  • Support monthly IBP review meetings with a focus on category performance with country teams, SEA Brand, commercial and finance teams. Covering key metrics by country, by channel, by category for the 2 year planning period
  • Contribute to cross functional collaboration with key stakeholders through IBP process
• Support Inventory management for SEA
  • Grasp key inventory KPIs (Inventory value and volumes, stock turn, month on hand)
  • Support SEA inventory manager on key inventory reports
• Manage key reports for SEA Demand Planning team, such as IBP dashboard, Price and margin analysis.

KEY RELATIONSHIPS

• Tactical demand planning team
• Country team: Country Manager, Country Channel (Wholesale/Franchise/Retail), Country FP&A, Country brand
• SEA & Emerging market eCom
• SEA Finance
• Emerging Market IBP

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES

• Data proficiency with attention to detail
• Advanced reporting skills with experience in building reports
• Advanced technical skills, minimally Excel, Power BI, Power Pivot
• Analytical skill and insight
• Committed to driving business change using fact-based approach
• High interpersonal/presentation skills to communicate and coordinate with multiple cross-functional stakeholders
• High degree of commercial and business acumen knowledge to challenge and drive consensus between Sales & Marketing

PRE-REQUISITE EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE / MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• University graduate or equivalent professional experience
• Minimum 5 years work experience
• Minimum 2 years finance and/or planning/forecasting experience