Specialist / Assistant manager Tactical Demand Planning & Reporting, SEA

 

PURPOSE & OVERALL RELEVANCE IN THE ORGANIZATION:

Support the E2E Integrated Business Planning (IBP) process and inventory management for South East Asia (6 countries), and managing key reports for Demand Planning Team. Foster cross-functional collaboration to achieve one committed plan, consistent with our mission and strategy

 

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Support the E2E monthly IBP process:
    • Manage and continuously enhance the IBP database, tools and reports to optimize the planning environment for key stakeholders, enabling them for better decision making
    • Fully accountable for monthly IBP system submission, ensuring submission meets global requirements and market’s alignment by validating data integrity and cleansing data when needed
    • Manage consolidation of countries input to provide SEA view
    • Grasp key financial figures of IBP (Net sales, Go in margin, pricing, volumes) , financial plan and operational data (business on hand, buy, range plan)
    • Support monthly IBP review meetings with a focus on category performance with country teams, SEA Brand, commercial and finance teams. Covering key metrics by country, by channel, by category for the 2 year planning period
    • Contribute to cross functional collaboration with key stakeholders through IBP process
  • Support Inventory management for SEA:
    • Grasp key inventory KPIs (Inventory value and volumes, stock turn, month on hand)
    • Support SEA inventory manager on key inventory reports
  • Manage key reports for SEA Demand Planning team, such as IBP dashboard, Price and margin analysis.

 

 

KEY RELATIONSHIPS:

  • Tactical demand planning team
  • Country team: Country Manager, Country Channel (Wholesale/Franchise/Retail), Country FP&A, Country brand
  • SEA & Emerging market eCom
  • SEA Finance
  • Emerging Market IBP

 

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES:

  • Data proficiency with attention to detail
  • Advanced reporting skills with experience in building reports
  • Advanced technical skills, minimally Excel, Power BI, Power Pivot
  • Analytical skill and insight
  • Committed to driving business change using fact-based approach
  • High interpersonal/presentation skills to communicate and coordinate with multiple cross-functional stakeholders
  • High degree of commercial and business acumen knowledge to challenge and drive consensus between Sales & Marketing

 

PRE-REQUISITE EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE / MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

 

  • Minimum 4-5 years work experience within large sales organization
  • Minimum 2 years finance and/or planning/forecasting experience
  • Preferable experience in the sport or clothing industry
  • Bachelor’s degree

 


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Job Title:  Specialist / Assistant manager Tactical Demand Planning & Reporting, SEA

Brand: 
Location:  Singapore
TEAM:  Finance
State:  Sing
Country/Region:  SG
Contract Type:  Full time
Number:  534550
Date:  Sep 15, 2025