Demand Planning Manager (1 Year Contract)

the LEGO Group; Singapore; Hybrid; SGD 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading toy brand in Singapore is seeking a professional for the S&OP process. The role focuses on analyzing forecasts, collaborating with internal teams, and improving planning processes. Candidates should have experience in FMCG environments and strong excel skills. The position offers a hybrid work model, various employee benefits, and supports a culture of inclusion and creativity.

Benefits

Family Care Leave

Life and disability insurance

Wellbeing resources

Colleague discount

Bonus scheme

Qualifications

• Experience in leading S&OP process preferably in a FMCG environment.
• Strong data management skills and proficient in excel.
• Excellent stakeholder management experience.

Responsibilities

• Analyze historical results and deviations for forecasting benchmarks.
• Collaborate with Business Intelligence on market changes affecting sales.
• Lead initiatives for continuous improvement of the S&OP cycle.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Data management

Result orientation

Building dashboards

Collaboration

Tools

Power BI

Power Query

Excel

Job description

Job Description

Are you ready to join a high performing Operations team where you can have a high level impact on the performance of a leading toy brand and increase the quality of its business plans? Use your excellent stakeholder skills to assure an optimal build up of the Singapore, Malaysia & APAC Travel Retail (SMTR) business plans, consolidating the input from brand and sales perspectives. Bring value to the LEGO Group with your focus on quality, efficiency and effectiveness in managing the S&OP process!

No relocation assistance is offered for this position. Coverage of benefits for Contractual positions may change or vary.

Core Responsibilities

• Analyze historical results and deviations, identifying drivers behind Forecasting benchmarks.
• Collaborate with Business Intelligence to assess market changes affecting consumer sales.
• Partner with Sales and Marketing to align future business plan assumptions with forecasts.
• Challenge assumptions to stress test and ensure quality of plans and forecasts.
• Develop monthly narratives explaining company results and anticipated developments.
• Lead Gap to Target processes to find opportunities in Consumer Sales and Retail Inventory.
• Lead initiatives for continuous improvement of the S&OP cycle.

Play your part in our team succeeding

The demand planning and projection department manages the SMTR Sales and Operations cycle monthly. It provides a clear understanding of past business performance and its impact on future forecasts.

The role is crucial in ensuring the business has a strong understanding and ability to answer the four questions of S&OP: What happened, Why did it happen, What does that mean for the future and What are we going to do about it?

Do you have what it takes?

• Experience in leading S&OP process preferably in a FMCG environment
• Strong data management skills and proficient in excel
• Excellent stakeholder management with experience working with both internal and external collaborators across functions
• Result orientation

An accurate, insight based forecast is expected. It should be built from understanding past performance and explaining how it affects future planning assumptions.

• Collaboration - To be effective in this role you will need to proactively build a culture with the Forecasting, Sales, Marketing and Business Intelligence teams where planning changes are freely shared and stress tested.
• Functional Expertise - Would need to have a strong understanding of Sales and Operations Planning and Forecasting good practices to be able to drive the continuous improvement within the processes.
• Power Query & Power BI - Able to build PBI dashboards and Power Query to automate reporting and drive real life updates or data.

Applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis. However, please note we do amend or withdraw our jobs and reserve the right to do so at any time, including prior to any advertised closing date. So, if you're interested in this role we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

What’s in it for you?

Here is what you can expect:

• Family Care Leave - We offer enhanced paid leave options for those important times.
• Insurances – All colleagues are covered by our life and disability insurance which provides protection and peace of mind.
• Wellbeing - We want our people to feel well and thrive. We offer resources and benefits to nurture physical and mental wellbeing along with opportunities to build community and inspire creativity.
• Colleague Discount – We know you'll love to build, so from day 1 you will qualify for our generous colleague discount.
• Bonus - We do our best work to succeed together. When goals are reached and if eligible, you'll be rewarded through our bonus scheme.
• Workplace - When you join the team you'll be assigned a primary workplace location i.e. one of our Offices, stores or factories. Our hybrid work policy means an average of 3 days per week in the office. The hiring team will discuss the policy and role eligibility with you during the recruitment process.

Children are our role models. Their curiosity, creativity and imagination inspire everything we do. We strive to create a diverse, dynamic and inclusive culture of play at the LEGO Group, where everyone feels safe, valued and they belong.

The LEGO Group is highly committed to equal employment opportunity and equal pay and seeks to encourage applicants from all backgrounds (eg. sex, gender identity or expression, race/ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, age and religion) to apply for roles in our team.

The LEGO Group is fully committed to Children’s Rights and Child Wellbeing across the globe. Candidates offered positions with high engagement with children are required to take part in Child Safeguarding Background Screening, as a condition of the offer.

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