Job Description
Are you ready to join a high performing Operations team where you can have a high level impact on the performance of a leading toy brand and increase the quality of its business plans?
Use your excellent collaborator skills to assure an optimal build up of the Singapore, Malaysia & APAC Travel Retail (SMTR) business plans, consolidating the input from brand and sales perspectives. Bring value for LEGO with your focus on quality, efficiency and effectiveness in managing the S&OP process.
No relocation support will be available for this opportunity.
Core Responsibilities
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Working with the business to gain an understanding of past performance and why there were deviations to expectations. Including driving an understanding of the drivers behind forecasting critical metrics
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Working with the Business Intelligence team to understand if there are any changes to the category or market macro performance that would impact the base level of consumer sales.
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Working through the forecasting team with the Sales and Marketing (S&M) groups to ensure there is an understanding to any changes in future assumptions behind the business plans and that they are reflected in the forecast.
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Challenge the assumptions that are provided to stress test the quality of the plan and the resulting forecast.
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Build the monthly coherent story line that explains past performance and future changes to the total business plans
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Own the Gap to Target process with S&M to see opportunities to close gaps in Consumer Sales and Retail Inventory
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Drive continuous improvement of the S&OP cycle
Play your part in our team succeeding!
The demand planning and forecasting department is responsible for the monthly management of the SMTR Sales and Operations cycle to provide a strong understanding of past business performance and the impact to the future forecast.
The role is essential in ensuring the business has a strong understanding and ability to answer the four questions of S&OP: What happened, Why did it happen, What does that mean for the future and What are we going to do about it.
Do you have what it takes:
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Equivalent experience in supply chain or economics, alongside a Bachelor’s Degree
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Experience in leading S&OP process preferably in a FMCG environment
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Strong data management abilities and proficient in excel
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Excellent collaborator management with experience working with both internal and external collaborators across functions
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Result Orientation: There is a high expectation of delivering an accurate and insight based forecast built off an understanding of past performance and the ability to explain its impact on future planning assumptions.
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Collaboration: To be effective in this role you will need to proactively build a culture with the Forecasting, Sales, Marketing and Business Intelligence teams where planning changes are freely shared and stress tested.
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Functional Expertise: Would need to have a strong understand of Sales and Operations Planning and Forecasting good practices to be able to drive the continuous improvement within the processes.
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Power BI: Able to build PBI dashboards to automate reporting and drive real life updates or data
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Applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis. However, please note we do amend or withdraw our jobs and reserve the right to do so at any time, including prior to any advertised closing date. So, if you're interested in this role we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.
What’s in it for you?
Here is what you can expect:
Family Care Leave - We offer enhanced paid leave options for those important times.
Insurances – All colleagues are covered by our life and disability insurance which provides protection and peace of mind.
Wellbeing - We want our people to feel well and thrive. We offer resources and benefits to nurture physical and mental wellbeing along with opportunities to build community and inspire creativity.
Colleague Discount – We know you'll love to build, so from day 1 you will qualify for our generous colleague discount.
Bonus - We do our best work to succeed together. When goals are reached and if eligible, you'll be rewarded through our bonus scheme.
Workplace - When you join the team you'll be assigned a primary workplace location i.e. one of our Offices, stores or factories. Our hybrid work policy means an average of 3 days per week in the office. The hiring team will discuss the policy and role eligibility with you during the recruitment process.
Children are our role models. Their curiosity, creativity and imagination inspire everything we do. We strive to create a diverse, dynamic and inclusive culture of play at the LEGO Group, where everyone feels safe, valued and they belong.
The LEGO Group is highly committed to equal employment opportunity and equal pay and seeks to encourage applicants from all backgrounds (eg. sex, gender identity or expression, race/ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, age and religion) to apply for roles in our team.
Research shows that women and people from different underrepresented backgrounds often only apply for a job if they meet 100% of the listed qualifications. For all candidates, if you dream of being a part of our team and you meet many, but not all of our listed qualifications for this role, please apply.
The LEGO Group is fully committed to Children’s Rights and Child Wellbeing across the globe. Candidates offered positions with high engagement with children are required to take part in Child Safeguarding Background Screening, as a condition of the offer.
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