Assistant Demand Planning Manager

LUXASIA is the leading beauty omnichannel distribution platform of Asia Pacific that has successfully enabled brand growth for more than 120 luxury beauty brands. Our integrated brand-building capabilities include luxury retail, online commerce, consumer marketing, and supply chain management. Since 1986, the company has partnered the world's finest brands, such as Aveda, Bvlgari, Calvin Klein, Diptyque, Hermès, La Prairie, Montblanc, and SK-II. We have also established Joint Ventures with the likes of LVMH Group, Elizabeth Arden, Puig, Yves Rocher, and By Terry. At the core of our business is a diverse and dynamic #OneTeam of 2000 talents which shapes the face of luxury beauty, and delight consumers daily across our growing footprint of 15 markets. Come join us now.

Position Overview

We are seeking experienced demand planners, who would like to join our journey of reaching ‘Planning Excellence' and become the Planning Centre of Excellence. The Demand Planner is responsible for leading all demand planning activities (forecasting and ordering) of Malaysia or Singapore region, maintaining the optimum balance between service levels (stock availability), cash (stock levels) and replenishment costs.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide Demand Planning process and technical subject matter expertise, leadership, and direction to Demand Planning community.
• Build Sales forecasts for regions assigned, integrating commercial targets (financial planning, store openings), launch plans, events, seasonality, trends, and products lifecycle.
• Closely work with local Demand Planning Manager to ensure local knowledge is incorporated into the forecasting model.
• Actively participates in S&OP process to align all services on sales forecasts, financial plan, launch and animation plans
• Actively communicates situation on slow moving products / discontinued products to the S&M team to determine inventory reduction plans (markdown operations, returns to vendor etc.) and to ensure minimal ageing stock.
• Conducts regular reviews with key brands to share the OSA, supplier fill rate and stock situation, and brainstorm on improvement plans.
• Participate in building a strong foundation and process for Demand sensing & prediction including business intelligence & insight, by working with different scenarios and take different business aspects into consideration.
• Defines action plans to improve processes, methods, and tools, and monitor their implementation.
• Co-ordination of best practice implementation and adherence through process health-checks
• Responsible for the development and delivery of Demand Planning related trainings to Demand Planning community
• Delivering training and coaching across the planning related functions and at key interfaces
• Co-ordination of best practice implementation and adherence through process health-checks

Key Requirements

• Bachelor's degree with a preference in supply chain management, mathematics and/or statistics or engineering.
• Demonstrated ability with 5+ years of experience in a global Supply Chain environment within demand management and digitalization will be appreciated.
• In depth knowledge and experience of SAP, Advanced Planning Systems, and data analytic tools with a passion for digital innovation
• Advanced proficiency with Access and Excel - creating queries and performing complex quantitative analysis to detect correlation and patterns in the data. Knowledge in VBA, Query or Power BI is a plus.
• Critical thinking to understand the big picture and connect the dots with all organizational layers and ongoing projects/improvements.
• High level of interpersonal/relationship skills with the ability to communicate optimally with colleagues and management.
• Analytical capability and data modeling skills; the capability to work with large datasets and develop diagnostic, predictive, and prescriptive analytics models.
• Team player, proactive, and committed to providing high-quality work to support everyone's needs.
• Open to new ideas, driving continuous improvement and challenging status quo.

We thank all applicants for their interest, however only those candidates selected for interviews will be contacted.

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