Regional Planning Manager - Muntinlupa

The role is responsible for running on a monthly basis IBP- Demand Review meetings to align on consensus demand plan with Country Managers, Marketing and Finance. In addition, the role is responsible to ensure reasonability of baseline and building blocks assumptions such NPDs, distribution, promotion price elasticity impact and other commercial activity that may affect demand.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Integrated Business Planning IBP / S&OP Governance Own the end-to-end IBP S&OP Process in Export Far East. Drives one- number principle within the organization. Supports in the reinforcement on bottom up forecasting process. Promotes meeting effectiveness and meetings drives actions and decision making. Facilitates EFE S&OP /Local MBR to highlight key changes in the assumptions and drives demand trend insights. Supports on Risk & Opportunities (R&Os) identification with Commercial and Finance team. Develop 24 month rolling forecast with Commercial and Finance team that is aligned to organization’s objectives.
2. Demand Review Effectiveness Facilitate the Pre-Demand Review with the Distributors . Establish a baseline based on the historical data. Review reasonability of building blocks assumptions . Highlight gaps against Sales Plan, work with Commercial team on action plans to address the gaps. Work with Commercial team to ensure the Sales & Marketing activities are integrated and aligned to business objectives.
3. In-market Sales, Shipment & Inventory Reconciliation : Review if Shipment in-line with In-market Sales plan. Highlights distributor inventory vs targets to ensure balance inventory levels to deliver service targets.
4. Continuous Improvement : Track and analyse KPIs forecast accuracy and bias . Drive actions to improve KPIs. Leads to improve IBP and partners with BUAP Regional S&OP Lead. Participate in Budget planning. Review correctness of SKU tagging in the master data.
5. Interface with Supply Planning team from each factory: Ensure timely submission of Shipment forecast to each Factory. Collaborate on a regular basis to address if there are capacity concerns. Recommends priorities allocation of supply if the need arise.