The Demand Planning Manager leads the end-to-end demand planning and S&OP process, driving accurate, consensus-based forecasts through close collaboration with Sales, Marketing, Finance, Supply Planning, and other cross-functional teams. The role ensures alignment between business strategies and operational execution, balancing customer demand, product availability, and working capital objectives. As the owner of the demand planning process, this position champions forecasting excellence, continuous improvement, data integrity, and collaborative planning practices to enhance forecast accuracy, plan stability, and business performance across the organization.
What You'll Do
You will drive the demand management process in accordance with Class A S&OP and Demand Planning Process Quality guidelines within the assigned country. You will provide guidance and leadership in monthly cross-functional consensus demand meetings to support both S&OP (18–24 months) and RvsCC (5-year) planning processes, while incorporating learnings and driving continuous forecasting process improvement.
You will develop and strengthen collaborative planning and Key Account Planning processes to support a business model driven by Key Accounts (KA) and Target Profitable Market Segments (TPMS).
You will incorporate outputs from marketing meetings into the demand plan and implement a structured forecasting approach that captures changes in assumptions, risks, and opportunities. You will leverage multiple perspectives to build a consensus demand plan and ensure a seamless handoff to Supply Planning to support product availability and optimize working capital investment.
You will facilitate a strong demand planning culture that ensures monthly forecast submission deadlines are met and drives key performance objectives such as forecast accuracy and sales plan stability. You will also lead process and capability improvement initiatives across ASEAN to strengthen demand planning excellence.
You will lead local demand planning processes, cross-functional meetings, and operational planning activities across all PBUs, ensuring that forecasting processes and methodologies are consistently applied and continuously improved.
You will provide guidance for and generate consensus SKU-level forecasts across an 18–24 month planning horizon, ensuring alignment with business direction and market trends. You will communicate consensus plans and underlying assumptions through S&OP Demand Reviews.
You will serve as the key liaison between Marketing, Sales, Product Management, Finance, Supply Planning, and Customer Service to ensure forecast accuracy, provide updated demand guidance, and communicate allocation decisions to cross-functional stakeholders.
You will act as a subject matter expert in forecasting and demand planning from both business and systems perspectives. You will be responsible for data maintenance, forecast data integrity, and ensuring a clear understanding of forecast assumptions and key demand drivers.
You will lead the process of tracking forecast consumption and facilitate weekly demand review meetings with key stakeholders to drive actions and solutions that support execution of the S&OP plan.
What We're Looking For
You have 3–5 years of experience in Sales, Marketing, and/or Demand Planning, including at least 2 years of proven experience leading the demand planning function within reputable mid- to large-scale organizations.
You hold a Bachelor's degree or higher in Supply Chain Management, Business, or a related discipline.
You have knowledge of integrated supply chain systems, including SAP APO DP, as well as strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint.
You possess a solid understanding of forecasting models and methodologies, along with supply chain processes and best practices.
You demonstrate strong leadership, analytical thinking, decision-making, influencing, organizational, and communication skills. You are proactive, adaptable, resilient, results-oriented, and capable of building effective relationships across all levels of the organization. You thrive in a fast-paced environment and can deliver results under pressure while driving continuous improvement and change.
You have knowledge and expertise in business statistics, which is preferred but not mandatory.
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