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Retail Operations

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Overview
Offices Kuala Lumpur
Job-type Full-Time
Job Category Retail Operations
Industries Retail & FMCG
Salary MYR 5,000 - 9,500 /Month
Who you'll be working for
Asia Pacific's largest retail and e-commerce network in beauty and luxury.
What requirements you'll need to be eligible

Key Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree with a preference in supply chain management, mathematics and/or statistics or engineering.
  • Demonstrated ability with 4+ years of experience in a Supply Chain environment within demand management and digitalization will be appreciated.
  • In depth knowledge and experience of SAP, Advanced Planning Systems, and data analytic tools with a passion for digital innovation
  • Advanced proficiency with Access and Excel - creating queries and performing complex quantitative analysis to detect correlation and patterns in the data. Knowledge in VBA, Query or Power BI is a plus.
  • Critical thinking to understand the big picture and connect the dots with all organizational layers and ongoing projects/improvements.
  • High level of interpersonal/relationship skills with the ability to communicate optimally with colleagues and management.
  • Analytical capability and data modeling skills; the capability to work with large datasets and develop diagnostic, predictive, and prescriptive analytics models.
  • Team player, proactive, and committed to providing high-quality work to support everyone's needs.
  • Open to new ideas, driving continuous improvement and challenging status quo.
What you'll be doing on the job

Key Responsibilities

  • Build Sales forecasts for regions assigned, integrating commercial targets (financial planning, store openings), launch plans, events, seasonality, trends, and products lifecycle.
  • Closely work with local Demand Planning Manager to ensure local knowledge is incorporated into the forecasting model.
  • Actively participates in S&OP process to align all services on sales forecasts, financial plan, launch and animation plans.
  • Actively communicates situation on slow moving products / discontinued products to the S&M team to determine inventory reduction plans (markdown operations, returns to vendor etc.) and to ensure minimal ageing stock.
  • Conducts regular reviews with key brands to share the OSA, supplier fill rate and stock situation, and brainstorm on improvement plans.
  • Participate in building a strong foundation and process for Demand sensing & prediction including business intelligence & insight, by working with different scenarios and take different business aspects into consideration.
  • Defines action plans to improve processes, methods, and tools, and monitor their implementation.
  • Co-ordination of best practice implementation and adherence through process health-checks.
  • Responsible for the development and delivery of Demand Planning related trainings to Demand Planning community
  • Delivering training and coaching across the planning related functions and at key interfaces.
  • Co-ordination of best practice implementation and adherence through process health-checks.
Consultant Contact
Posted by: Poon Man Kay
Phone: 0189239313
Email: mankay.poon@recruitfirst.co
Reg No: HTTPS://ABOUT.RECRUITFIRST.CO/MANKAY.POON
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