Planning Manager

- Develop top-down view on regional demand plan from a supply perspective, ensuring defined selling, stock and reduction cost targets in alignment with regional commercial strategy, financial plan, business unit direction, and capital tied up targets.
- Develop and implement supply chain, supplier quality and logistics strategy that support global production of high volume consumer electronics product.
- Recommend optimal plant layout, labor deployment plans and MRP (Material Raw Planning) to support production volume forecasts and model mix
- Collaborate with Sales, Operations, and Customer Service teams , lead the transformation of global supply chain operations through development and execution of supply chain simplification and variable/base cost productivity projects.
- Rolling collaboration with Inventory Optimization Managers and Merchandise managers to understand current challenges and stock management needs
- Rolling collaboration with Inventory Optimization Managers and Merchandise managers to understand current challenges and stock management needs
- Lead the daily forecast by facility and flow type for inbound volume, outbound volume, and storage and SKU utilization
- Run analyses of customer group/concept growth potential to identify regional opportunities and recommend regional strategy in collaboration with Merchandising managers
- Provide rolling update on forecast and deviation from current plan of region/market demand and inventory levels to proactively identify needed actions (short, mid, and long term) on buying, bulk sourcing, and stock management