APAC Hub Planning Lead

1.Key responsibilities:

-Lead and perform mature operational planning processes across the operating company (Opco) countries within Asia Pacific, including Demand Planning, Supply Planning, and S&OP.

-Drive capability building by engaging local Opco teams and leading training sessions to strengthen planning competencies.

-Monitor and report the performance through KPIs and initiate actions to improve planning outcomes using a TPM (Improvement methodology) approach.

-Deliver sustainable planning benefits by aligning processes with business goals.

-Manage stakeholder expectations and foster collaboration across functions.

-Benchmark and innovate by identifying best practices from other OpCo's and integrating them into local operations.

-Support new project deployments of OpCo's into the APAC Regional Planning Hub.

2.Requirements:

-Bachelor/ Master in Supply Chain Management or a related field

-At least 5 years of job experience in Supply Chain with minimum 3 years end-to-end operational Planning (Demand Planning, Supply Planning, S&OP)

-Good organizational skills; able to prioritize and result focused and service oriented

-Strong communication (verbal and written) skills and excellent in written and spoken English language

-Stakeholder Management and engaging others without formal authority

-Experience of working in a dynamic environment of global FMCG companies is a plus

-IT literacy: Excel the skills and experience working in planning tools (FuturMaster/ Sunstice) are a plus