Demand Planner
- Supply Chain Management
- Shah Alam
- Syngenta Crop Protection
Job description
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Role purpose
- Drive effective Sales and Operation Planning (SOP) processes to meet the business plan.
- Propose and implement solutions to improve demand forecast accuracy.
- Exploit planning process and methodology concepts to meet future business requirements.
Accountabilities
- Effective management of demand planning processes to meet the agreed business plan.
- Collaborate with the Sales and Marketing teams to understand demand forecasting drivers. (e.g seasonal demand, anticipate customers reactions to the promotions and discounts, etc).
- Provide inputs to the Supply Planning team to develop inventory digestion plan for existing items, new product launches as well as product phase-outs.
- Construct presentations and communicate changes in sales forecasts and budgets during monthly SOP meetings.
- Conduct weekly reviews of sales data against forecasts and document mitigation activities to manage gaps with business plan.
- Review IBP master data periodically and perform timely update of changes, including efficient introduction/removal of products (SKUs) according to country go-to-market (GTM) strategies.
- Work as team member on various global/regional initiatives for planning process and system improvements and optimization.
- Address demand-related issues in a timely manner.
Critical knowledge:
- Familiar with SAP IBP application.
- Strong knowledge of sales and operation processes.
- Fluent in conversational and written English as well as Bahasa Malaysia.
- Computer literate especially in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint and Word.
Critical skills:
- Persuasive leader with ability to take quick decision.
- Capability to analyse and translate numbers and data into reliable insights.
- Ability to follow and understand big-picture economic trends.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
Critical experience:
- Ability to work across functions, cultures and geographies.
- Think outside the box – finds novel solutions and innovative strategies with high success potential.
- Effective stakeholder and expectation management.
- Sense of urgency with ability to prioritise work and quickly manage changes.
- University degree preferable.
Critical experience:
- Ability to work across functions, cultures and geographies.
- Think outside the box – finds novel solutions and innovative strategies with high success potential.
- Effective stakeholder and expectation management.
- Sense of urgency with ability to prioritise work and quickly manage changes.
- University degree preferable.
Competencies for Appointments
Customer Focused
- Customer first in work and interpersonal dealings.
- Respond quickly to meet their needs and resolve problems.
Innovative
- Seek alternative ways to view or define problems.
- View situations from multiple perspectives.
Decisive
- Recognis issues or opportunities and determine whether action is needed.
Communicative
- Ensure clarity for both verbal and written messages.
- Utilize agreed standards and processes.
Trusted
- Ensure that words and actions are consistent with all our stakeholders and keep our commitments.
Team oriented
- Demonstrate personal commitment to the team.
- Listen and fully involve others in team decisions and actions.
Results oriented
- Self disciplined.
- Measures progress and evaluates results.
Critical success factors and key challenges in the first 12 months
- Drive planning initiatives to provide excellent analysis, information & advice to optimize effective business-decision making.
- Excellent communication across functions especially with Marketing and Commercial teams.
- Establish and maintain strong relationships with stakeholders to enable transparency and responsiveness and act as the key operational contact for country.
- Comfortable working in open plan office environment.
- Some short domestic and overseas travel.
Innovations
- Employee may, as part of his/her role and maybe through multifunctional teams, participate in the creation and design of innovative solutions. In this context, Employee may contribute to inventions, designs, other work product, including know-how, copyrights, software, innovations, solutions, and other intellectual assets.
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