About the role

  • Senior Supply Planner driving regional supply planning excellence for luxury beauty brand in Africa and Asia. Collaborating with global supply planning to optimize inventory and service levels.

Responsibilities

  • Manage regional MOC targets based on ABC sku and transit consideration. Share regional stock needs to global supply chain in monthly cycle.
  • Monitor forecast changes and communicate updates to global supply planning.
  • Weekly analysis of monthly sell-in pattens against forecast and adjustments on supply planning as necessary.
  • Manage a complex portfolio of products, including reformulation with high level of promotional volumes and alternate customer channels, and/or a high degree of demand seasonality.
  • Fease additional regional sell-in opportunities withing blocked horizon.
  • Fill rate projections for rolling 3 to 6M based on stock confirmation to support demand plan. \n• Identify supply gaps to forecast and working with global to mitigate and reduce, and with regional teams to find alternatives.
  • Contribute to the continuous improvement of the supply planning and stock balancing processes and systems.
  • Work closely with demand planning and logistics team to identify forecast deviation and/ or supply chain constraints with the goal to minimize out of stocks and prevent the build of excess and obsolete inventory.
  • Ensure on-time availability of product and develop action plans or alternatives for delayed products.
  • Coordinate with NPD controller to ensure that new launch issues are incorporated into the S&OP agenda.
  • Collaborate with global supply planning team to support consistent regional & global ways of working.
  • Working closely with commerical stakeholders to support stock holding and exceptional requests.
  • Maintain expertise in supply planning systems to ensure consistency and development of the functions (people, process, and systems/tools) as the business grows.
  • Assist Supply Chain regional lead in the execution of supply chain projects.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in supply chain / logistics, or other related field preferred.
  • At least 6+ years of Supply Chain Planning related experience.
  • Strong analytical, communication and organization skills required.
  • Excellent in both written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills.
  • Organised, detail-orientated, numerate, analytical and good problem-solver.
  • Comfortable with ambiguity and adaptive to new situation and changes in direction.
  • Exceptional Excel skills to model data into dashboard, someone IT savvy who is able to bring experience of improved information sharing both internally and externally would be a plus.
  • Strong Team player, an entrepreneurial flair, real commerciality, great relationship building abilities and relationships.
  • Fluency in English, Cantonese and Mandarin is required.

Job title

Senior Supply Planner, APAC

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Location requirements

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