Executive, Sales Planning

The overall role of Executive, Sales Planning is to organize regular planning meetings and coordinates with various commercial and manufacturing functions to align plans and operations.

Key Responsibilities

• Communicate weekly plans from commercial to manufacturing functions and vice versa to ensure that operations are aligned and act as a liaison among relevant functions.
• Regularly monitor day-to-day sales change and generate weekly forecast.
• Work with Sales function to process demand data in Enterprise Resource Planning system to generate order recommendations.
• Communicate demand information to all supply side functions (Production, Procurement, Delivery, etc.) to ensure that supply is sufficient to fulfill demand.
• Conduct field market visits to gather information related to market demand and regularly gather market demand updates from Sales function.
• Work with all functions to prepare periodical market demand and supply capacity updates to inform Manager, Planning and Analysis of supply chain status.
• Provide support in planning and reporting to function manager

Success Factors

• Development of thorough plans and regular review of plan executions and adjustments to ensure that operations across functions and businesses are optimized
• Moderating of group discussion to produce concise and actionable items for further implementation

Qualifications

• Education:
  • Bachelor’s degree in Economics, Business Administration, Accounting, Research or other relevant fields of study
• Experiences:
  • 3 years of experience in commercial and/or manufacturing operations (Sales, Production, Procurement, etc.)
  • 2 years of experience in data preparation and reporting
• Skills and knowledge:

• • Project management skills, including in planning, following up, risk assessment and management, conflict resolution
  • Working knowledge of Enterprise Resource Planning system and business intelligence and analytics software
  • Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Power Point, Visio and Project)
  • Effective communication, reporting and presentation skills