Job Description

What are we looking for?

• Strong and mature people leader. Solid record with building collaborative team with high engagement and results driven culture.
• Strong knowledge and experience in demand planning of FMCG, or integrated E2E planning, 7Y plus.
• Broad business perspective with good strategic agility.
• Deep understanding on sales and operations. Field sales experience is plus.
• Excellent collaboration, strong drive on results across ambiguity and complexity. Stand alone among pressures and take care of team.
• Have know-how upon planning digitalization. Affinity with leading edge techs and data science.
• Track record in interacting with and influence cross-function teams and senior leaders; synthesize and present business scenario analysis to senior executives
• Demonstrated ability to build trust and strong cross-functional relationships across an organization to achieve common goals.
• Thrives in a fast changing/learning organization with fast-paced environment.

What will be your key responsibilities?

• Develop “one set of number” for rolling 26P GSV forecast and publish to S&OP to facilitate supply planning and finance integrated reconciliation.
• Govern DMR process to deploy rolling topline fcst to 4 regions and drive clarity on rolling building block change and updates. Design and lead offtake building block (BB) definition and fcts method development to capture offtake growth with evolving retail landscape and shopper behaviors.
• Manage BB pipeline sufficiency to deal with demand fluctuation and drive demand creation by advance analysis from BB database.
• Issue alarm call when YEE fcst deviates from FY target, and lead gap closing with One Demand team joint efforts.
• Build regional capability to support demand planning process (Regional DMR as DMR feeder meeting) and BB cascading.
• Build an engaging collaboration with x-function team, including Sales Region teams, Key Account teams (online and offline), Finance team, and facilitate the “one set of number” mindset.
• Lead, develop and grow DP team with high levels of engagement and low turn.
• Lead DP digital transformation by designing clear roadmap and leading through key projects, say AI demand sensing, demand planning cloud (data lake), etc.
• Connect with global DP committee as MWC representative and drive global DP capability agenda deployment.

What can you expect from Mars?

• Work with over 130,000 like-minded and talented Associates, all guided by The Five Principles.
• Join a purpose driven company, where we’re striving to build the world we want tomorrow, today.
• Best-in-class learning and development support from day one, including access to our in-house Mars University.
• An industry competitive salary and benefits package, including company bonus.