Demand Planner APAC

Charlotte Tilbury Beauty is seeking a commercially minded and highly collaborative Demand Planner to strengthen our regional planning capability in APAC.

The Demand Planner will own the development of a high-quality, consensus demand plan that supports commercial growth, product availability, and financial delivery across the APAC region.

Responsibilities:

• Own the rolling APAC demand forecast at market, channel, customer, and SKU level
• Build and maintain the regional statistical forecast in FuturMaster, applying relevant demand drivers and market intelligence
• Analyse sell-in, sell-through, market data, inventory to identify demand signals, risks and opportunities
• Translate promotional calendars, price changes, assortment changes, and commercial initiatives into forecast assumptions
• Lead demand planning for new product post-launch reviews, reformulation forecast, discontinuation and range changes
• Evaluate demand impact from cannibalization, product substitution, phasing and channel shifts
• Facilitate monthly market demand-review meetings to secure and align timely, robust and consensus-based forecasts
• Consolidate regional demand inputs and prepare key assumptions, haps, risks and growth opportunities in the APAC S&OP process
• Partner with Commercial, Marketing, and Finance teams to reconcile demand plans with strategic priorities, budget and latest estimate
• Measure forecast accuracy, bias and forecast variances; lead root-cause reviews to drive improvement actions
• Produce concise planning dashboards and executive-ready reporting on demand planning, and business performance
• Maintain planning master data, forecast parameters, and system data quality
• Strengthen regional planning standards, tools, reporting and ways of working through continuous improvement initiatives
• Work with Supply Planning to ensure an executable and realistic plan is developed to meet forecast requirements and financial budgets

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Business Administration or equivalent
• At least three years of experience working in Demand Planning, forecasting, supply chain planning or a related function; experience in beauty or FMCG is preferred
• Demonstrated experience managing demand forecast across multiple markets, channels, customers, or product categories within APAC
• Experience of challenging forecasting assumptions and influencing cross-functional stakeholders
• Strong process-focused communication, interpersonal skills and great relationship building abilities
• Experience with demand-planning systems such as FuturMaster, Anaplan, SAP IBP, or equivalent is advantageous
• Highly organized, detail-oriented, and able to manage priorities while delivering accurate work in a fast-paced environment
• Proactive and solution-focused, with a strong sense of ownership, reliability, and follow-through
• Proficiency in MS Office Suite, Advanced Excel, Power BI or similar tools
• Fluency in English and Chinese is essential and proficiency in other regional languages is highly desirable

Benefits:

• Generous staff discount
• Regular Charlotte Tilbury gifts (bi-monthly)
• Birthday day-off
• 16 days annual leave plus public holidays
• Supplementary medical insurance
• Flexible working hours and diversity culture & environment