Primary Purpose of Role

Support Asia in achieving the Strategic plan through delivering a realistic and transparent monthly demand plan that is the one number the entire business works to with focus on China.

• Owns the monthly Demand Planning process for their part of the China Business Unit
• Support the Integrated Business Planning process through tracking and challenging assumptions, risk and opportunities and delivering key market insights.
• Deliver a 2shipment and depletion forecast on a monthly basis.
• Ensuring customer data is analysed and interpreted to drive decision making
• Responsible to deliver adhoc data requests from key stakeholders: North Asia Sales & Marketing Team

Key Decision Making in this Role

• Ensure rigour and robustness to submitted forecasts
• Challenge and influence submitted demand plans across the Business Unit Channels.
• Support Regional Managers to identify opportunities and gaps versus targets and communicate these to the business.
• Ensure continuous improvements to avoid supply chain inefficiencies
• Accountability for measuring and delivering MAPE & Bias improvements
• Ensure Monthly Forecast cycle meets IBP and Business Unit needs and adheres to continuous improvement principles.
• Influencing key customers to place orders according to forecast plan where there are shortfalls.
• Provide key customers with accurate and timely information of potential shortages to minimise disruption.
• Provide supply with accurate and timely information to minimize out of stocks and surpluses.
• Provide finance with accurate and timely information to ensure robust financial projection.