Specialist / Assistant manager Tactical Demand Planning & Reporting, SEA

adidas; Singapore; On-site; SGD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A global athletic wear company based in Singapore is seeking a skilled candidate to support the E2E Integrated Business Planning process and inventory management for Southeast Asia. Responsibilities include managing key reports, optimizing planning environments, and fostering collaboration among cross-functional teams. The ideal candidate has significant experience in a large sales organization, particularly within the sports or clothing industry, and possesses strong analytical and technical skills.

Qualifications

• 4-5 years work experience within a large sales organization.
• 2 years finance and/or planning/forecasting experience.
• Experience in the sport or clothing industry preferred.

Responsibilities

• Support the E2E monthly IBP process and manage key reports.
• Support inventory management for SEA and grasp key KPIs.
• Contribute to cross functional collaboration through IBP.

Skills

Data proficiency with attention to detail

Advanced reporting skills

Advanced technical skills (Excel, Power BI)

Analytical skill and insight

High interpersonal/presentation skills

Commercial and business acumen

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Excel

Power BI

Power Pivot

Job description

Overview

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

• Minimum 4-5 years work experience within large sales organization
• Minimum 2 years finance and/or planning/forecasting experience
• Preferable experience in the sport or clothing industry
• Bachelor’s degree

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