Demand Planning Supervisor - FMCG

The position of Demand Planning Supervisor is responsible for coordinating and executing best practice Demand planning as part of the Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) across the Pernod Ricard Vietnam with a focus on forecast accuracy and bias & place orders based on the FC & safety stock level & follow up all the purchased order with suppliers.Reporting to the Logistics Manager, this role will help the team to develop strong relationships and work closely with Marketing, Sales, Finance & all suppliers, to oversee the monthly demand planning cycle that is running one set of agreed and signed off demand volumes & place the order on time.The ideal candidate has an eye for continuous improvement, demonstrated ability to reduce non-value add items within demand and supply systems and processes is a must, along with a strong analytical background, within the FMCG industry or ideally the beverage industry is essential.KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES• Implement demand planning process and to drive for efficiency, aim to have high quality outcomes to meet both businesses long/short term expectation and supply chain efficiency.• Drive participation in the monthly S&OP (DRM; Pre-S&OP) & forecast process, responsible for building and aligning 18 months forecast by brand/product group based on sales and marketing plan input and preparation of insightful meetings and close follow-up of this meeting.• Managing forecasting assumptions and alignment with commercial teams.• Provide insights and analyses for the short-term/long term forecast vs. actual performance, by brand, SKU and major customers.• Managing the forecasting process with the commercial teams by accurately validating the customers' sales plans & setting up new product master data in coordinating with sales and marketing market arrival times and launch dates.• Anaplan leading, the new Demand Planning platform, within the business and integrating the tool as the planning platform.• Driving insights through data and continuous improvement.• Cross-functional collaboration with Sales Organization, internal Finance teams and personnel to ensure business plans and forecasts are accurate.• Generating new insight into sales and marketing based on the insight from market data.• Manage new launches from a demand planning perspective and give proactive feedback to the Brand and Sales team as well.• Leading and facilitating cross-functional teams to tackle stock risks and stock outages to mitigate customer service impact.• Develop projects to improve the Demand Planning/Market Data organization and efficiency.• Extendedly support the Cambodia market in consolidating, validating & uploading NR & SOH.• Other tasks assigned by the Line manager such as ad-hoc requirements to complement the day-to-day operational side of the business needs.