Senior Demand Planner

Job Description

Responsible for executing demand planning processes, ensuring effective communication with stakeholders, leading S&OP meetings, and contributing to continuous improvement initiatives that impact KPIs (primary: forecast accuracy; secondary: on-time delivery/stock availability and inventory management/DIO).

Key Accountabilities

• Execute the daily, weekly and monthly demand planning processes (i.e. demand outlier adjustments, new parts, etc.) to fine tune the forecast to achieve forecast accuracy and customer delivery targets.

• Lead the Monthly Forecast Consensus S&OP meeting to reach a consensus with business partners on the sales demand forecast by facilitating a collaborative planning process.

• Collect data from internal and external sources such as customers forecast and data/market intelligence that are known to impact demand.

• Obtaining information and details on occurrences that could impact demand like promotions, new customers/parts.

• Developing demand forecasts at multiple levels of aggregation for multiple time horizons (rolling forecast).

• Coordinating and seeking cross-functional enquiries activities to reconcile forecasts variances (outliers-items).

• Refining systems, process, and methods to improve demand forecasts to better anticipate customer needs and forecast accuracy.

• Provide reporting and analysis on the full breadth of Supply Chain Performance, including Backorders, Backlog, DIO, OTD, Forecast Accuracy KPI and forecast bias.

Education Qualification:

• Bachelor's degree in business, Supply Chain Management, or a related field or equivalent

• Minimum of 1-3 years of experience in demand planning.

Technical Competence & Skills:

• Experience using a Demand Planning software and ERP systems (Oracle) is preferred.

• Solid understand of common industry-wide supply chain planning processes is preferred.

• Self-starter, able to work under minimum supervision.

• Self-motivated and result orientated.

• Strong analytical, quantitative, and qualitative skills, with the ability to interpret and translate data into actionable strategies.

• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced and dynamic environment, adapting to changing priorities.

Others (% of travel, language, etc.):

• We are seeking a candidate with excellent verbal and written communication skills in English. Other languages like Japanese, Korean, and Mandarin is preferred but not required.

• We are committed to diversity and inclusion and encourage individuals of all backgrounds to apply.