Demand Planning, Senior Specialist

What You Can Expect

The demand planner coordinates all steps within the demand planning process from demand collection to the approved demand plan for designated APAC market / Japan . They are responsible for integrating data from Product Marketing, Development, and Sales to create and improve the Demand planning process. Through monthly planning sessions, this position will monitor and advise recommended action plans to ensure accurate forecasting

How You'll Create Impact

• Analyze historic and current demand trends, and generate and evaluate the market baselines
• Execute and strategically create the future fulfillment plans
• Enable ZB to achieve high quality demand plans by increasing forecast accuracy for specific products withintheir specific countries
• Serve as the subject matter expert for all the demand plans of designated market
• Work with IT to ensure and verify data quality
• Prepare monthly management reports identifying any relevant problems and recommending solutions thatwill improve future demand plans
• Confirm that business assumptions used to generate demand plans are reviewed, updated, and documented
• Cleanse the demand history from one-off effects (HIE and others) and other effects that have the potential toreduce the data quality for later statistical projection steps
• Plan for and participate in demand review meetings
• Perform segmentation for product customer combinations based on the demand history for ABC (Volumeand the historical demand for XYZ (Variability)
• Interact with all organizations of the company including marketing, sales, finance, and manufacturing toensure smooth demand planning process

What Makes You Stand Out

Your Background

Travel Expectations

Skills Required

Sap, Mathematics, Sap Apo, Erp, Microsoft Office, Tableau, Kinaxis, Bw, Statistics, ibp , Microsoft Excel