Senior Manager, Planning (Emerging Brands, APAC)

Job Definition:

Liaise with merchandise, finance, omni-channel planning and operation teams to deliver seasonal/ monthly buying, allocation, inventory forecasts and replenishment order, provide analytics and reporting for decision making. Facilitate regional S&OP meetings and participate in dialogues with key counterparts to improve demand visibility.

Key Roles & Responsibility:

Partner with Finance, Merchandising, and omni-channel planning and operation team on formulating 5 years strategic planning on product category and Omni-channel from buying, allocation, to inventory management

Multi-Horizon Planning for supporting 5-year Production Capacity Planning

Seasonal product level forecasting at SKU level.

Provide weekly and monthly end to end ST and inventory as well as seasonal in-coming product tracking reports.

Co-ordinating with Global Planning Team on seasonal forecasting requirements.

Consolidation & validation of channel / country level product forecasts

Support the Merchandising & Omni-channel Sales & Operation team with their planning and forecasting of the line as part of the GTM calendar.

Alignment and reconciliation of monthly/ seasonal demand signal to financial forecast / parameter per DC (Order book review)

Reporting order book progression vs Seasonal Demand forecast

Partner with Brand on forecasting of NOOS / In-season replenishment items.

Product line analysis:

SKU productivity

Demand / Order book phasing

Product launch phasing

Forecast accuracy and icon management reports

Working with Merchandising & Omni-channel Sales & Operation team in order to follow SMU products / special in-season needs.

Aligning on ‘placeholder’ orders (Contracts)

Essential –

Building strategic work relationship

Decision making

Coaching & developing others

Business Acumen

Desirable –

Customer focus

Empowerment

Facilitating Change

Detail-oriented

Data maintenance, analysis & visualization.

Technical savvy (System & Process)

Multi-tasking

High efficiency and logical thinking with operational excellence

Experience

• Minimum 6 years of relevant experience in planning and analysis, preferably with planning experience in multi-national company, apparel industry experience is desirable but not mandatory

• Solid work experience in retail business and S&OP is highly preferred

• Strong business acumen with analytical and problem-solving skills.

• Well-organized, logical & mature thinking, attention to details, dedicated, energetic and being a self-starter

• Computer literate with excellent knowledge and hands-on experience in Excel, PowerPoint and other MS Office applications. Practical experience in SAP /APO, forecasting system is definitely an advantage

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