Demand Planner (Long An)

Objectives

- As a demand planner, you are responsible for creating, monitoring, analyzing and improving the demand forecast for both the short and long term for the Vietnamese markets, various product types, brands and channels. You do this in cooperation with the sales and supply chain (operations) teams and contribute to the clarity towards our local factories (and other factories in the network) about capacity needs.

- In addition to ensuring a smooth monthly demand forecast process, you are also (jointly) responsible for monitoring the forecast accuracy & bias and you are constantly looking for solutions and tools to improve the accuracy of the plan.

- In this position, you get the opportunity to develop yourself within a broad field of the supply chain and operations. The emphasis is on the cooperation with the sales-, supply chain and operations departments, and the colleagues in the production locations (that could be outside the OpCo).

Key tasks and responsibilities

- Preparing an as accurate as possible demand forecast for all products with a horizon of 18 months in close cooperation with the stakeholders that contribute to this process

- Timely receive the right input from sales (and marketing) about seasonal effects, promotions, market trends, distribution changes, tenders, product introductions and product terminations

- Leading and further shaping the monthly demand meeting, in which the input from sales & marketing is discussed beforehand

- Timely informing of the organization when stock levels, outbound deliveries and/ or customer service are at risk

- Proposing improvements to the forecasting process and putting IT into practice

- The preparation and monitoring of the KPIs forecast accuracy and bias

- Participating in various projects with the aim of improving the forecast reliability and/ or the forecasting process