Manager Operational Demand Planning China
: GCA
: Demand Planning
Direct Reporting Line: Senior Manager Operational Demand Planning
Indirect/secondary reporting line: NA
: China
Number of Personnel Managed: NA
Cost Center/Budget and/or Revenue Responsibility: NA
Key Responsibilities:
- Ensure high performance in the demand planning process
- Steadfast adherence to local and global timelines
- Manage demand planning with SCM-APO and AFS-SCA, BI report delivers timely and accurate output of demand plan to purchasing.
- Validation of data integrity and cleansing of data prior to forecasting
- Resolve issues related to the integration of information between systems (Both upstream and down-stream systems for DP).
- Provide Demand review information at article level and aggregated level.
- Validate Marketing range forecast (RMA Line List)
- Participate demand review meetings with focus on forecast trending and comparison vs business targets, define actions items with business team.
- Interface with business partners
- Drive the consensus of the unconstraint Demand between Categories and Channels
- Facilitate the consensus with the Marketing & Channel teams
- Document and challenge forecast assumptions based on the analysis of market data, industry statistics, and market dynamics
- Proactively raise opportunities and risks for decision in order to capture marketplace opportunities
- Analyse and define the Demand Planning Signal based on the unconstraint demand and the RMA forecast submitted by Marketing, per Channel.
- Define, review, adjust and finalize Demand Planning Signal prior to sending to Purchasing
- Review sales order information vs Demand signal at articles level to find the gaps.
- Ensure proper netting of the orders and forecast considering stock on hand in the logistics network.
- Ensure demand forecast is regularly reviewed, aligned with respective channel heads and reflect correctly in SAP.
- Participate in the Buy Plan Review Meeting with Purchasing.
- Measure and report forecast accuracy at market, brand, channel and article levels
- Participate in the development of the cause of error to ensure continuous improvement of the overall process
Key Relationships:
- adidas Marketing teams
- Wholesale, Franchise, Retail, and Ecommerce teams
- Customer service teams
- Purchasing teams
- IBP teams
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Superior analytical skills, and ability to see the “big picture” while still playing attention to the details.
- Ability to glean insights from data and analyze corrective actions, providing scenarios and options
- Be the objective partner for commercial teams
- Exceptional oral and written communication skills
- Ability to work effectively in a collaborative team environment
- High degree of commercial and business acumen knowledge to challenge and drive consensus between Sales & Marketing
- Advanced MS Excel skills, SAP APO skills a plus
- Fluent in written and spoken Mandarin and English is a must.
Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:
- 3-5year of demand planning experience within a large-scale organization
- Bachelor’s degree
- Preferable experience in the sport or clothing industry