Demand Planner

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Job details

Company overview

Our client is one of the world’s largest food companies.

Responsibilities

You will oversee demand planning activities for your assigned product families in your business unit. You will also lead the demand review process and driving interactions with the cross-functional teams.
Main responsibilities:

• Regional Product Owner for implementing and sustaining AI/ML Forecasting across all AMEA BU's
• SPOC for capturing and defining business requirements from AMEA BU's for incorporation of the relevent drivers & levers into the modelling solution
• Manage product team - comprising of Data Scientist, Data Analysts, Data Engineering, ML OPS by setting the direction and roadmap for the team to deliver the solution
• Liasioning with Global Advanced Statistical Forecasting Team to understand the best practices across other regions
• Perform Governance with BU CS&L LT team to drive adoption and No Touch Forecasting (NTF) across markets
• Collaborate with MDS Plan Team to ensure seamless integration and all relevant planning data flow across APO, BI, Datahub, IBP
• Execute monthly RCA and action planning with BU Demand Teams & CAT Teams to drive continuous improvement to the forecasting models
• Perform analytics to recommend improvement opportunities for demand forecast accuracy
• Help develop and monitor Sales Forecast Accuracy (SFA %) and Sales Forecast Bias (SFB %) targets for BUs to ensure overall delivery for AMEA
• Help organize monthly connects with BU Demand Planning Leads
• Help organize regional Demand Planning KU network
• Support Central Analytics Team (CAT) projects to model our demand forecast using Advanced Stats / Machine Learning models
• Support Enterprise Demand Planning capability building sessions in AMEA (e.g. Demand Academy)

Requirements

Minimum requirements:

• Minimum of 7-10 years of experience in Demand Planning and Supply Planning
• Extensive knowledge of Demand Management and stakeholder management
• Operational knowledge of either SAP APO or O9, BI/ ECC in Supply Chain through formal training and experience
• Understanding to Advanced Statistical Forecasting Algorithms
• Experience in Product Management or Product development using Agile methodology
• Understanding of IBP / S&OP / Project management methodology
• Bachelor’s degree (finance, logistics, engineering, operations).
• Fluent in English
• Good communication abilities with non-English speakers and other functions; Excellent interpersonal, communications and presentation skills
• Strong understanding of internal functional roles within Supply Chain
• Knowledge / understanding of linkages and functional interdependencies within the organization

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience of working in multicultural teams and environment is preferred

Salary

7 - 9 million yen

Location

Tokyo