Demand & Supply Planning Assistant Manager

The Demand & Supply Planning Assistant Manager is responsible for creating and maintaining the consensus demand plan at multiple levels of aggregation for both finished goods & visibility items, using statistical models and utilizing insights from Sales, Marketing, and Finance.

Responsibilities:

Demand Planning

• Analyze historical sales data, trends, base growth, distribution, market share to create/analyze a statistical forecast and determine the Operations Demand Plan.
• Collaborate with Sales to understand past performance, drive root cause analysis, and challenge the latest sales demand plan.
• Align on the consensus Demand Plan with Sales, Finance, and Operations during the monthly S&OP meeting.
• Compose the placement forecast for visibility items, identifying risks and opportunities to the placement plan and financial framework.
• Meet or exceed targeted KPI’s such as SKU and DC Forecast Accuracy and Service Level.

S&OP Planning

• Lead the monthly Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) process and define the meetings, deadlines for finished goods products and visibility items.
• Generate monthly local Supply Plan as input for the Global S&OP Process.
• Implement the globally balanced S&OP in the local supply planning execution.
• Complete the Red Bull IBP system requirements each month and on time.

Supply Planning & Inventory Management

• Translate monthly supply plan to a weekly planning according to guidelines and restrictions.
• Establish and manage inventory levels to ensure no out of stocks and healthy product age.
• Manage inter-DC stock movements to ensure service and within budget.
• Handle repacking planning, including stock control, packaging material ordering, and repacking cost tracking.
• Provide Logistics Manager a rolling forecast for 3PLs on inbound, storage, and outbound volumes.

Portfolio Management

• Collaborate with Marketing, Finance & Sales to conduct fact-based portfolio management and implement SKU portfolio review regularly.
• Establish long-term SKU portfolio management based on complexity and cost matrix.
• Manage product transitions of new and phasing out SKUs within budget.

Import Inbound Management

• Track shipment schedule of FG and visit items, liaising with custom brokers on arrival status and sequence of unloading to warehouse.
• Bridge communication between HQ and custom brokers to ensure all import documents are ready and correct.
• Manage palletization during unloading based on channel forecast to reduce re-palletization cost.

Requirements:

• At least 2-3 years working experience in demand planning role, ideally in an FMCG environment.
• Strong influencing skills.
• Proven ability to run analysis from multiple sources, providing reliable and valuable outputs.
• Relationship builder with excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• An entrepreneurial “can do” attitude facilitated by continuous improvement and application of appropriate “best practices”.
• Accuracy, innovation, and results-driven focus with an attention to detail paramount.
• Good working knowledge of SAP or similar ERP packages.

Travel: 10-20%