Demand Supply Planning Manager

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Job details

Company overview

Our client is a manufacturer of health-related products.

Responsibilities

Customer Service:

• Ensure all key stakeholders within the business franchise are knowledgeable and compliant regarding key processes that contribute to customer service within the business.
• Drive the forecast review process within the franchise team, partnering with other key stakeholders in Demand Management and APSC, to achieve optimal outcomes for the franchise.
• Collaborate with the local Sub Con Planner to ensure optimal customer service and inventory outcomes for locally reworked product.
• Identify and drive tactical intervention opportunities for APSC and the business resulting in service recovery in instances where customer expectations would otherwise not be met.
• Analyze reasons for service failures. Recommend and drive initiatives to prevent future occurrences.

Free Cashflow Management:

• Agree appropriate safety stock parameters with regional SC to ensure customer service levels are met with responsible levels of inventory. 
• Systematically review inventory related opportunities with the business, to ensure that the business derives maximum financial return on its inventory.

Sales & Operations Planning:

• Drive 50:50 Forecasting and S&OP processes within franchise team, partnering with other key stakeholders in Demand Management and AP supply chain to achieve optimal outcomes for the franchise.
• Ensure that S&OP contributes to a robust S&M business planning process.
• Ensure that S&OP contributes to a robust S&M business planning process

NPI:

• Partner with NPI project management and APSC team to ensure timeliness of completion of NPI executions.

Cross Functional Team Membership:

• Serve as the Supply Chain representative within the relevant JP Franchise Team (Baby/Beauty, OTC).
• Collaborate and partner with other functional representatives to develop franchise strategies, initiatives and goals that are congruent with overall business strategies.
• Communicate with APSC to drive supply chain capabilities against the business priorities and with the business to ensure congruence of demand generation activities with supply chain capabilities.

People Development:

• In partnership with own manager, take personal accountability for own professional development.
• Develop subordinate/s and other members within functional team to produce capable supply chain managers for the future.
• Develop subordinate/s and other members within functional team to produce capable supply chain managers for the future.

Requirements

• A minimum of 6 years experience in Supply Chain role
• A minimum of 2 years experience in demand & supply planning as well as S&OP.
• A minimum of 2 years experience in a leadership role with direct reports.
• Leadership skills: Think ideal state first, influence, Results orientation, Trustworthiness, Business Intuition
• Team skills: Collaboration, Organizing, Decision making, Motivating, Oral communication
• Flexibility, adjusting to meet requirements of changing conditions
• Enterprise Resource Planning tool (ERP)
• Microsoft Office
• Communication (and languages): Japanese & English

Desirable:

• Ideally FMCG or Pharma experience
• SAP R/3 and/or APO Supply Chain Management solutions.

Salary

9 - 12 million yen

Location

Tokyo