APAC Hub Planning Lead

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.

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