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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