Executive recruitment company Monroe Consulting Group Malaysia's Consumer Goods Division is recruiting on behalf of a French luxury personal care brand. Our esteemed clients has been established for over half century specializing in a wide range of cosmetics, personal care and skincare products.
As business growth and expansion continues, our respected client is seeking am ambitious professional for the role as a Senior Demand Planner. The opportunity is based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Job Responsibilities:
- Drive monthly Demand Review and S&OP meetings with cross functional stakeholders.
- Develop 18 months rolling demand forecast from historical sales data by incorporating marketing intelligence (promotion, phase-in phase-out, new launches & discontinuation plan) and challenge the forecast as needed.
- Ensure the sales forecast consistency through the building of consensus between the commercial, financial budget and historical sales trend.
- Manage stock level in accordance with the country's objective.
- Analyze excess & obsolete stock and communicate with commercial for action to clear to drive down stock write-off and provision.
- Build Supply plan based on the validated consensus sales forecast.
- Analyze and highlight business risk and opportunity to commercial and jointly propose appropriate mitigation plan.
- Responsible to the Key Performance Indicators - Forecast Accuracy & BIAS. Analyze root cause & propose improvement plan.
- Contribute to the improvement of demand & supply planning processes.
- Responsible to maintain Product Master Data in system including Product Lifecycle, Product Lifestyle, etc.
Job Requirements:
- Posses a degree/diploma or relevant qualifications
- Possess technical expertise across Microsoft Tools (Word, PowerPoint)
- Able to communicate well with internal and external stakeholders (Added leverage if able to communicate in more languages. E.g: Mandarin)
- Minimum 3-5 years of working experience in related industry (Added leverage if retail industry)
- Good track record in technical expertise.
