Senior Demand Planner leading demand planning and inventory management for the consumer goods sector. Collaborating with teams to optimize stock levels and customer service in Malaysia.
About the role
- Supply & Demand Planning Lead at Zespri managing demand and supply planning across the Asia Pacific region. Leading Integrated Business Planning processes to support effective decision-making and financial outcomes.
Responsibilities
- Leading Integrated Business Planning: Coordinate and run weekly and monthly IBP cycles, ensuring alignment between demand, supply, and financial outcomes across multiple stakeholders and geographies.
- Demand planning: Develop constrained demand forecasts using market intelligence from commercial teams, and support longer-term strategic demand planning.
- Supply planning: Create intercompany replenishment plans that optimise supply, logistics capacity, inventory, lead times, service levels, and cost-to-serve.
- Business partnering: Build strong, trusted relationships across functions while constructively challenging assumptions to improve the quality of decisions.
- Performance & insight: Contribute to KPIs and scorecards, analyse root causes, and drive continuous improvement across forecast accuracy, inventory health, service levels, and cost.
- Continuous improvement: Embed core planning processes, lift IBP maturity, support financial integration, and ensure planning systems are optimised with minimal manual intervention.
Requirements
- A degree in business, supply chain, logistics, or finance (postgraduate or supply chain certification like CSCP is a plus).
- 5+ years’ hands-on experience in supply chain planning (demand & supply), ideally with financial acumen.
- Advanced skills in demand and supply planning systems (e.g., SAP IBP, APO).
- Excellent communication and coordination skills - fluent in English and Japanese or Korean (additional languages a bonus).
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, with a knack for tackling both financial and operational challenges.
- Experience working in international or matrix organisations.
- Change management skills and a passion for driving innovation and continuous improvement.
- A customer-centric mindset, business acumen, and a desire to keep developing your own skills.
Benefits
- Competitive overall remuneration package, including a Short-Term Incentive scheme opportunity.
- FlexWELL flexible work ethos; WFH and the office.
- Additional paid annual leave day per year (Zespri Day).
- Two additional paid leave days for you to proactively support the moments that genuinely boost your mental, physical, emotional, and social wellbeing (Boost Days).
- Global Life and Permanent Disability Insurance.
- Group Medical Insurance benefits.
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