Job details
| Location: | |
| Job Type: | Permanent |
| Discipline: | |
| Reference: | IT/MN/SRDP/240419C |
| Posted: | about 5 years ago |
| Consultant: | Mabel Ngu |
| Consultant Email: | email Mabel |
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Job description
The incumbent is responsible for leading demand planning activities of specific products, maintaining optimum balance between stock availability, stock levels and replenish costs to distribution centers.
Responsibilities:
- Forecasting and Ordering :
- Build sales forecast for Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand, integrating commercial targets, launch plans, events, seasonality, trends and product lifecycle.
- Convert sales forecasts into supply needs and challenge forecasts provided by merchant team.
- Review KPIs and adjust forecasting models to ensure KPIs (such as OSA, forecast accuracy, stock levels, etc.) are met.
- Work with local supply chain managers and merchandisers to ensure localization incorporated into the forecasting model.
- Actively review product database to ensure accuracy of the product assortment.
- Coordination with Merchant team (category managers), Marketing & Finance:
- Engage in S&OP process to align all services on sales forecast, launch & animation plans as well as financial plans.
- Monitor and optimize open-to-buy process to meet inventory targets
- Actively communicates situation on slow moving products / discontinued products to the category team to determine inventory reduction plans and to ensure minimal ageing stock.
- Regularly review key brands to share OSA, supplier fill rate & stock situation, and analyse improvement plans.
- Define action plans to improve processes, methods and tools, and monitor their implementation.
Requirements:
- Bachelor degree in Business, Operations Management or Supply Chain.
- 5+ years of experience in demand planning, FMCG preferred.
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills.
- Advanced excel capabilities (VBA knowledge will be a plus).
- SAP system experience preferred.
- Candidate must come from procurement background, having warehouse experience.
Please contact Mabel Ngu at +65 6950 0366 or mabeln@charterhouse.com.sg for a confidential discussion
EA License no: 16S8066 | Registration no: R1980996
The incumbent is responsible for leading demand planning activities of specific products, maintaining optimum balance between stock availability, stock levels and replenish costs to distribution centers.
Only successful candidates will be notified.