Demand Planner

You’re not the person who will settle for just any role. Neither are we. Because we’re out to create Better Care for a Better World, and that takes a certain kind of person and teams who care about making a difference. Here, you’ll bring your professional expertise, talent, and drive to building and managing our portfolio of iconic, ground-breaking brands. In this role, you’ll help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world. It starts with YOU.

Role Overview & Primary Accountabilities:

• Lead Demand Planning Process for Consumer Business.

• This role synthesizes all inputs across sales, CSD, marketing, finance and supply chain functions.

• Lead and facilitate Demand S&OP meetings each period, driving consensus and carrying out category and regional demand reviews.

• Key contact person as a bridge between Demand Planning and supply planning in executing and adjusting the production plan to meet sales forecast requirement.

• Produce periodic reports with team members on demand management and perform analysis on KPI and Scorecard performance.

• Implement corrective action with consumer business teams in regards to significant variances to forecast.

• Manage product / packaging rollovers, introductions and discontinuations in order to best meet business unit objectives.

• Manage inventory and facilitate initiatives to improve on finished goods inventory (e.g., clearance of slow-moving stocks).

• Lead demand optimization projects for Malaysia & Singapore.

About Us

Huggies. Kleenex. Cottonelle. Scott. Kotex. Poise. Depend. Kimberly-Clark Professional. You already know our legendary brands—and so does the rest of the world. In fact, millions of people use Kimberly-Clark products every day. We know these amazing Kimberly-Clark products wouldn’t exist without talented professionals, like you.

At Kimberly-Clark, you’ll be part of the best team committed to driving innovation, growth, and impact. We’re founded on 151 years of market leadership, and we’re always looking for new and better ways to perform – so there’s your open door of opportunity. It’s all here for you at Kimberly-Clark.

Led by Purpose. Driven by You.

About You

You perform at the highest level possible, and you appreciate a performance culture fueled by authentic caring. You want to be part of a company actively dedicated to sustainability, inclusion, wellbeing, and career development. You love what you do, especially when the work you do makes a difference. At Kimberly-Clark, we’re constantly exploring new ideas on how, when, and where we can best achieve results. When you join our team, you’ll experience Flex That Works: flexible (hybrid) work arrangements that empower you to have purposeful time in the office and partner with your leader to make flexibility work for both you and the business.

In one of our professional roles, you’ll focus on winning with consumers and the market, while putting safety, mutual respect, and human dignity at the center. To succeed in this role, you will need the following qualifications:

Functional/Business skills

• Experienced in S & OP, and NPI Process.

• Good knowledge of statistical modeling and demand systems.

• Strong capability to synthesize and filter inputs from multiple sources to narrow to most important influences which will impact future demand.

• Advanced ability to identify risk & opportunity areas in Demand.

• Strong collaboration skills.

• Project Management Skills.

Essential Knowledge/ Experience

• Minimum 3 years related experience in Supply Chain with 1 year in a supply / demand planning capacity in a Consumer Goods MNC Company.

• Incumbent must possess analytical & project management skills as well as able to collaborate well with other stakeholders.

• Enjoy working in a cross functional environment.

• Proficient in Microsoft Office with a minimum Advance level in Excel.

• SAP knowledge in Supply Chain-related areas is highly advantageous.

To Be Considered

Click the Apply button and complete the online application process. A member of our recruiting team will review your application and follow up if you seem like a great fit for this role.

Primary Location

Kuala Lumpur Office

Worker Type

Employee

Time Type

Full time