Assistant Manager, Asia Expansion - Supply & Demand Planning

The role

To lead the demand and supply planning for the assigned business unit. The role manages and ensures service level delivery, business waste reduction, inventory optimization, and innovation planning. The role is expected to partner with the Business Unit (BU), Master Distributors, relevant Sourcing Units (SU) and the Customer Development Teams to build an integrated forecast through the S&OP process and deliver the BU JTBD (job-to-be-done). Lastly, the role is expected to drive cross-functional collaboration across other supply chain and business functions, as well, to drive end-to-end efficiency and operational excellence.

What you'll be responsible for

1. Demand Planning
   • Lead the demand planning process for all Asia Expansion Markets
   • Sales analysis and understanding key trends
   • Ensuring 24-month rolling forecast is available and is communicated to all sourcing units through different IT systems for operational planning purposes.
   • Work closely with the network planners to build innovation forecast into the demand plan.
   • Ensure all master data is in place for uploading demand in different systems.
2. Operational Supply Planning
   • Liaising regularly with sourcing units to review supply plans against customer forecasts and orders.
   • Consolidating supply plans from all sourcing units and sharing the same with the customer service teams.
   • Preparing the loss-tree analysis for all the non-supplied orders.
   • Reviewing KPIs with the sourcing units at the end of each planning cycle.
   • Monitoring and leading the offshore supply planning operations.
3. Sales and Operations Planning
   • Driving Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) process in the business (starting from identifying gaps in forecasts vs. targets, orders vs. forecasts and then finally supply vs. orders).
   • Reconciling demand and supply by working closely with the sourcing units and providing a constrained demand plan based on the inputs received.
   • Ensuring unconstrained and constrained demands are available and loaded in relevant systems regularly.
   • Working with finance on the cash up process.
4. Inventory planning
   • Defining the planning strategies at a “customer-sourcing unit-SKU” level based on forecast and replenishment strategy (make-to-order vs. make-to-forecast).
   • Defining stock-holding principles for the make-to-forecast Stock Keeping Units (SKUs).
   • Defining stock replenishment guidelines and ordering frequency based on different planning cycles for each sourcing unit.
   • Monitoring days-on-hand against target and identifying improvement opportunities.
   • Managing slow-moving and obsolete stocks (SLOB) by highlighting slow and non-moving stocks to the business to generate appropriate actions.
5. Performance Management
   • Driving accountability and process improvement based on key performance metrics such as Forecast Error and Bias and Demand Hygiene.

We're looking for someone who possesses

• Business experience in demand and supply chain planning, preferably within the FMCG industry
• Knowledgeable in S&OP process
• Strong business-partnering
• Skilled in SAP
• Strategic, highly adaptable and entrepreneurial mindset
• Solid analytical skills, bias for action, responsibility and accountability.
• Strong Communication and Project Management skills.
• Strong team spirit, proactive approach to issues and opportunities.
• Proven people management capabilities
• Ability to operate through ambiguity
• Agility and resourcefulness

What you'll get

Alongside meaningful work and strong development, we offer a reward package that typically includes Market-competitive pay and performance related rewards Flexible ways of working Support for health, wellbeing and life outside of work Time off to rest and recharge Ongoing learning and development opportunities

Why join us?

This is a place for people who are passionate about ice cream and are growth obsessed - both for the business and for themselves. People who act like an owner and drive our business end-to-end. People who are driven by success to deliver more than we ever thought we could! You’ll thrive here if you value an inclusive culture, with low ego and hierarchy - and if you’re excited to continuously learn and challenge how we work, using digital, data, and new thinking to push us forward.

• Roles with real accountability and visible impact
• Free to move fast, experiment and challenge how things are done
• Continuous learning and development as the business grows
• Reward linked to performance and contribution. Your career here is shaped by what you deliver, as you work across functions and markets and grow with the business.

Ready to build the future of Ice Cream? If this sounds like the place where you'd thrive, we'd love to hear from you. Apply online and share your CV. We'll review your application and be in touch with the next steps. If you are an individual with a disability and require assistance