Demand Forecasting Planner

Job description

Job ID 1024588 Date posted 4/26/2018 Primary Location Singapore, Central Singapore Community Development Council, Singapore Job Category Supply Chain and Operations Schedule Full time Shift No shift premium (Singapore)

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) is an industry leading technology company that enables customers to go further, faster. With the industry’s most comprehensive portfolio, spanning the cloud to the data center to workplace applications, our technology and services help customers around the world make IT more efficient, more productive and more secure.

HPE Aruba is one of the fastest growing businesses within HPE and offers opportunities to experience various leading edge technologies such as Bring Your Own Device (BYOD), Cloud and Software-Defined Networking (SDN). One can grow his or her career in a variety of different verticals, all the way from the cutting edge tablet business to high-end enterprise business. Here, employees productize and innovate to solve real world customer challenges.

In a typical day as a Demand Forecasting Planner , you would

·  Develop demand forecasts at multiple levels of aggregation for multiple time horizons to support countries in the Asia-Pacific (including Japan) region
·  Review historical sales trends, research demand drivers, develop statistical forecast models, prepare forecast data and evaluate forecast results
·  Create statistical forecasts:
- Gather, analyze and validate data
- Execute statistical modeling software
- Review resulting statistical forecast model
- Apply error analysis techniques to improve forecasting
- Summarize/aggregate statistical forecasts
·  Incorporate introduction of new products and end of sales of existing products into your demand plan consideration
·  Interact with sales, marketing, and finance to understand demand forecast drivers and align demand forecast with sales/finance revenue forecast
·  Work with deal management to capture potential demand spikes due to LVO
·  Coordinate cross-functional activities to reconcile significant variances and refine the forecast to reflect updated sales and marketing assumptions
·  Closely coordinate and communicate updated forecast and action plans with supply planning and other functions in supply chain
·  Use and maintain the Demand Planning software as the primary forecasting system tool.
·  Regularly review forecast key performance index, conduct root cause analysis and come out with forward looking actions to address performance gaps
·  Regular meeting with other region teams as well as global team to review regional performance and share moving forward forecast strategy
·  May participate in pan HPE projects

If you …

·  Bachelor’s Degree especially in supply chain with strong inclination to statistics.
·  Have minimum 3 years and above of relevant working experience.
·  Have an excellent communication in Mandarin (to support China market).​
·  Demonstrated proficiency in statistics, forecasting and forecasting methods with an understanding of their financial and operational impacts.
·  Have a strong analytical, organizational, decision making, and presentation skills.
·  Strong interpersonal skills are also essential to effectively interact with all teams, areas and levels of business affecting the forecast process.
·  Familiar with Excel (VLOOKUP, Pivot, Charts) and PowerPoint (Presentation) tools.
·  Understand end to end supply chain is preferred.
·  Knowledge of SAP APO, Minitab or other software related to demand planning is preferred.

...then, !

We offer:

·  A competitive salary and extensive social benefits
·  Diverse and dynamic work environment
·  Work-life balance and support for career development
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