Country Demand Planning Lead

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Animate the regional monthly collaborative sales forecast process (CSF) for Vietnam full transactional business scope. Require building the consensus with key business owners with each BU/Product line in charge about future demand outlook, to ensure the forecast accuracy targets are achieved.
• Lead and host the monthly Sales, Inventory and Operation Meetings (SIOP) with the participation of Country president, Business Units VPs, Country CFOs, GSC Logistic Heads, CS&Q Directors, and other related functions. Articulate the key demand, inventory and operation challenge in respective BU/Zone or country and facilitate the consensus discussion for solution and decisions.
• Support the inventory planning, stocking policy and safety stock management.
• Supporting Distribution Requirement Planning Process (DRP) with country Supply planner & LoB planner to ensure all the basic parameter like forecast, Unhealthy Stock, Excess, Obsolescence Inventory management. and so on must be maintained correctly inside SAP systems.
• Lead the collaborative planning process with key Customers/Co-Planning, sales marketing, and other cross functional stakeholders and facilitate the monthly co-planning meetings directly with customer/partner.
• Conduct regular meetings with Commercial (Sales / Marketing) & Product (BU/LOB) teams to gather and analyze all available information to create the best possible forecast (historical sales, phase in/phase out, cannibalization, causal factor, market trends, seasonality, promotions, special events inventory levels, price changes, lead-time etc..).
• Make recommended adjustments to forecast and inventory targets (input: forecast accuracy, forecast value–add, unhealthy stock level, customers OTDC) based on changes in demand and market trends
• Proactively facilitating, re-engineering, best practices & consensus between functional experts (Demand Planning, Supply Planning, LoB planning, Sales & Marketing, Logistics, cross-functional stakeholders, and Finance)
• Participate actively in projects teams, working on initiatives to improve forecast accuracy
• Complete relevant reports (weekly & monthly) as and when directed

• Strong background in Demand Supply planning & Forecasting. Working knowledge of IBF (Integrated Business Forecasting), SIOPs (Sales & Operations Planning)
• Experience using SAP (Kinaxis/Similar tools, DRP, MM module) &/or Kinaxis (sales forecast and DRP module), or other ERP statistical software packages
• Strong analytical abilities /High level of data analytics skills – forecast modeling
• Good communication and Team building skills
• IT Skill (Create Tableau, database, Power Query, Advanced excel, Office) is preferrable
• Ability to lead cross-functionally with strong collaborative skills in getting consensus among teams in mitigating demand gaps
• Mature, confident, and collaborative. Capable to directly engage senior executives at VP or SVP level.
• Customer Collaborative planning experience is preferred.
• Marketing, sales, and customer interface experience is preferred.
• 10+ years related experience
• Tertiary qualifications in a commercial or logistics (Business, engineering, or related field)