Manager, Regional Demand Management (9 months Contract)

Job Description

Are you interested in how market demands in APAC & China behaves & evolves, and the impact you can deliver to bring more LEGO Sets into the hands of children?

Apply your demand management experience and operational excellence skills in balancing short term demand and supply to support the business in achieving its objectives!

This will be a 9 months Contract for a maternity coverage.

Core Responsibilities

• Assist the Business Units in achieving operational excellence in important measurements, such as readiness of novelties, availability of retail stocks, and service level to customers and consumers.
• Optimize demand/supply balancing in the operational horizon (up to six months) via in-depth analysis on weekly demand trends and corresponding supply imbalances.
• Work closely with BUs on topline management within operational horizon and ensuring the sync up E2E across Supply Chain.
• Bring visibility and analysis on business risks and opportunities via performance analysis to facilitate decision-making.
• Collaborate with cross functional teams to support execution of the weekly and monthly processes, and ensuring high coherency and standardization where applicable.
• Driving governance of Regional Demand Management tools and processes to ensure coherence.

Play your part in our team succeeding

We connect the dots by partnering different teams to balance demand and supply. This is done by driving cross-functional consensus across the operational horizon through collective processes and governance. As markets are at different maturity levels, you will need to show a strong analytical approach and influencing skills to lead both regional and local BU market needs.

Do you have what it takes?

• Tertiary qualifications in project management, such as ones from the Project Management Institute (PMI), or supply chain/operations certification, such as APICS or CPIM, are preferred.
• Min 5 years of work experience in demand and supply management in FMCG industry, with good understanding of retail, planning and stock management strategies.
• Strong collaborator management skills, with ability to influence collaborators across end-to-end value chain.
• Analytical approach (qualitative/quantitative) with ability to identify risk and opportunities and proactively implement corrective measures.
• Govern regional processes and initiatives with markets, while bringing constructive viewpoints to motivate change & solutions in collaboration with markets.
• Experienced using IT as an enabler for increased performance, working with Power BI, SAP, Advanced Excel & other digital tools.
• Curious and passion for learning!

What’s in it for you?

Here is what you can expect:

Family Care Leave - We offer enhanced paid leave options for those important times.

Insurances – All colleagues are covered by our life and disability insurance which provides protection and peace of mind.

Wellbeing - We want our people to feel well and thrive. We offer resources and benefits to nurture physical and mental wellbeing along with opportunities to build community and inspire creativity.

Colleague Discount – We know you'll love to build, so from day 1 you will qualify for our generous colleague discount.

Bonus - We do our best work to succeed together. When goals are reached and if eligible, you'll be rewarded through our bonus scheme.

Workplace - When you join the team you'll be assigned a primary workplace location i.e. one of our Offices, stores or factories. Our hybrid work policy means an average of 3 days per week in the office. The hiring team will discuss the policy and role eligibility with you during the recruitment process.

The LEGO Group is highly committed to equal employment opportunity and equal pay and seeks to encourage applicants from all backgrounds (eg. sex, gender identity or expression, race/ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, age and religion) to apply for roles in our team.

Research shows that women and people from different underrepresented backgrounds often only apply for a job if they meet 100% of the listed qualifications. If you dream of being a part of our team and you meet many, but not all of our listed qualifications for this role, please apply.

The LEGO Group is fully committed to Children’s Rights and Child Wellbeing across the globe. Candidates offered positions with high engagement with children are required to take part in Child Safeguarding Background Screening, as a condition of the offer.

Thank you for sharing our global commitment to Children’s Rights.

Join the LEGO team today.