Demand Planning Assistant Manager

I. JOB PURPOSES:

- Take responsible for demand planning in Beiersdorf Vietnam at high accuracy of forecast quality.

Handle daily operations of demand planning and distributor’s inventory management to ensure service level “in-full”.

II. DIMENSION/ KEY FIGURES:

- Geographical Area: Ho Chi Minh city

- Directly report to: Demand Planning Manager

- Subordinates: 0

- External customers: Distributor

- Internal customers: Brand Marketing (MKT), Shopper & Customer Marketing (S&CM), Finance, Sales, Regional Supply Chain, Regional Supply Chain COE, Regional Supply Planning team, Logistics, Regulatory Affairs, Production Centers (PC), Europe Consolidation Centre (Hub ECC), Procurement

III . PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES: (Minimum requirement)

1.S&OP and Demand planning management

- Be responsible for baseline forecasting.

- Run demand planning portion of monthly S&OP process by working with internal stakeholders (MKT, S&CM, Sales, Finance) to gather and justify all relating building blocks in monthly demand plan, ensuring the demand forecast is aligned and supports reaching the company’s sales objectives.

- Involve in promotion planning, Launch/Relaunch planning process and customer planning process.

- Provide analysis and challenges against demand assumptions to ensure the realism and reliability of demand forecast.

- Identify risks and opportunities in highlighting and driving effective decision making for gap closing action plan in short and long- term horizon.

- Facilitate monthly S&OP meetings (pre-demand, demand review, executive S&OP meeting).

- Maintain demand master data (proportional forecast factor, history corrections, product like profiles and phase-in/phase-outs).

- Be responsible for accurate visibility of forecast in planning system (SAP/APO) to trigger correct supply replenishment to avoid OOS or excess inventory and poor service level.

- Ensure on-time in-full S&OP submission to Regional Supply Chain.

- Act as Supply Chain business partner in monthly business review meeting with Commercial team.

2.Service level and local inventory management

- Ensure stock readiness on time following forecasting plan to achieve Service Level.

- Manage stock internal transfer process among local satellite warehouses to ensure sufficient stock availability to fulfill customers’ orders.

- Proactively and regularly review service loss with Logistics team to investigate root causes and define corrective and preventive action.

- Review the unconstrained demand plan with the CoEs to identify capacity constraints and create an action plan to overcome potential issues ensuring maximization of customer services at least costs.

- Closely collaborate with Regional Supply COE team and PCs/ HUB for shipment plan and inventory replenishment to ensure stock sufficiency to support company sales target.

- Lead “phase in-phase out” (PIPO) management, short shelf-life, slow moving and obsolete stock review and ensure clearance execution from Commercial team.

- Prepare write-off proposals.

- Work with PCs/Hub, local Commercial and Logistics teams for batch & shelf-life management

- Propose airfreight request for approval to mitigate risk on supply and tracking AF spending on the mindset of minimizing air freight and trucking cost.

- Allocate stock for single and VAS.

- Input commentaries for Service level KPI (In full).

3.Others

- Fulfill other assigned task/project and planning reports by line managers.

- Cooperate with other dept. for smooth operations.

- Achieve assigned Supply Chain Dept.'s KPIs, and support teams for overall company goals.

1. Education Qualification

- BA or equivalent in business administration/economy/supply chain management/industrial engineering/engineering management.

- APICs certificate is preferred.

2. Working Experiences

- Minimum 2-3 years of experience in Demand planning role in FMCG/skin care industry.

- Knowledge in S&OP process, Inventory management.

- Project-control and Supply Planning experience is a plus.

3.Competencies requirement (Functional & Technical)

- Experience with large ERP system (SAP/APO).

- Strong analytical and time management skills.

- Good sense at numbers.

- Fast adaptation and willing to learn mindset, good team-player.

- Able to build strong relationship with internal and external key stakeholders. Proven ability to influence across multiple functional teams.

- Strong communication skills in both oral and written.

- PC proficiency in spreadsheet, Excel, PowerPoint. Power BI, Power Query is a plus.

4.Other qualifications

- Fluent in verbal and written English.

- High self-motivation and ownership.