- Lead regional supply chain transformation initiatives
- High-impact role with significant stakeholder exposure
About Our Client
Our client is a well-established multinational organisation undergoing a major supply chain transformation to enhance regional visibility, standardisation, and operational efficiency. As part of a newly centralised operating model, they are investing heavily in planning capabilities and supply chain excellence across multiple markets
Job Description
- Lead short- and mid-term supply planning activities across multiple markets.
- Drive inventory availability while balancing inventory policies, service levels, and working capital objectives.
- Manage exception handling processes, identifying supply risks and developing prioritisation scenarios to mitigate disruptions.
- Collaborate closely with demand planning, supply planning, allocation, master data, and commercial stakeholders to ensure alignment across the supply chain.
- Oversee regional co-packing planning, including volume forecasting, execution monitoring, and component ordering.
- Support and contribute to S&OP processes through scenario planning, performance reviews, and consolidated replenishment inputs.
- Drive inventory optimisation initiatives, including the reduction and rebalancing of slow-moving and obsolete stock.
- Lead planning activities relating to product lifecycle management, including phase-in and phase-out (PIPO) planning.
- Manage export replenishment activities from a regional hub to multiple markets, ensuring service excellence and cost optimisation.
- Champion new processes and tools introduced through the organisation's supply chain transformation programme while embedding harmonised ways of working across the region.
The Successful Applicant
A Successful Supply Planning Manager Should Have
- Proven experience in replenishment planning, supply planning, inventory management, or broader supply chain planning functions.
- Strong understanding of MRP, DDMRP, inventory management principles, and replenishment methodologies.
- Experience managing complex planning environments across multiple countries or business units.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities with the ability to make trade-off decisions under supply constraints.
- Proficiency with planning and reporting tools such as Anaplan, Power BI, ERP systems, or equivalent platforms.
- Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence cross-functional teams.
- Experience leading teams and developing planning capabilities within a regional environment.
- Comfortable operating within change and transformation programmes.
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to engage stakeholders across different markets and cultures.
What's on Offer
- Opportunity to play a key role in a major regional supply chain transformation.
- Leadership exposure within a newly created regional supply chain organisation.
- Significant cross-functional collaboration with regional and global stakeholders.
- Opportunity to shape planning processes, governance frameworks, and future operating models.
- Strong career development and progression opportunities within a multinational environment.
- Exposure to advanced planning tools and supply chain best practices.
This is a role for skilled professionals in Malaysia to advance their careers in the FMCG industry. Interested candidates are encouraged to apply.
Contact
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