S&OP Planner: Drive Demand, Capacity & Launches

L'Oréal; Singapore; On-site; SGD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

L’Oréal in Singapore seeks a results-driven S&OP Planner to lead the sales and operations planning cycle across markets. You will partner with plants, sourcing, and local markets to balance demand with capacity, ensuring product availability and healthy stock across the end-to-end network.

The role emphasizes launching and managing new products, optimizing inventories, and driving performance metrics within a regional hub. Strong IT planning tool proficiency is essential.

Qualifications

• Consumer oriented and proactive mindset: fostering a demand-driven Supply Chain with service as a priority.
• Capacity and Agility Planning: orchestrating multi-market supply plans, modelling capacity scenarios, and navigating manufacturing constraints.
• Launch Management: coordinating new product introductions from phase-in to phase-out while controlling inventory risks.
• E2E Value Chain Acumen: grasp of end-to-end supply chain flows across sourcing, manufacturing, and downstream distribution.
• IT Tools Acumen: proficiency in enterprise planning systems (SAP/APO) and data analytics tools including Excel and Power BI.
• Stakeholder Management: unite cross-functional partners around shared supply decisions and operational priorities.

Responsibilities

• Manage the Sales and Operation Planning process (S&OP) to ensure the availability of products to clients.
• Provide the right level of service and stocks optimization to contribute to the Supply Chain performance.
• Analyze and consolidate demand and stocks parameters of subsidiaries - Ensure the framing of demand (consistency, historical base).
• Analyze monthly/weekly demand variations needs and define the priorities for the production plan with factories.
• Ensure consistency of factories production plan according to demand and make recommendations in case of inconsistency. Confirm availability plan.
• Manage stocks parameters on the whole end-to-end Supply Chain and participates in operational activities/projects for reduction of E&O
• Communicate updated information on supply chain stocks and service policy (possible slow movers, service) to subsidiaries.
• Be the referee on proposals to dispatch available quantities to subsidiaries in case of shortages.
• Challenge factories on their capacity to integrate market constraints (batch and run sizes, queueing line, management of shortage); Lead long term capacity investment studies to support future growth of business.
• New Launch scenario planning, sizing review, launch announcement and launch validation according to threshold framework; Alignment with zone marketing and key countries on launch strategies
• Manage catalogue and contribute to its rationalization. In charge of operational monthly cycle of new launch master data.
• Follow up and analyze performance indicators. Make recommendations.

Skills

SAP APO

Excel

Power BI

Capacity planning

Launch management

E2E supply chain

Stakeholder management

Multi-market planning

Tools

SAP APO

Excel

Power BI

Job description

L’Oréal in Singapore seeks a results-driven S&OP Planner to lead the sales and operations planning cycle across markets. You will partner with plants, sourcing, and local markets to balance demand with capacity, ensuring product availability and healthy stock across the end-to-end network.

The role emphasizes launching and managing new products, optimizing inventories, and driving performance metrics within a regional hub. Strong IT planning tool proficiency is essential.