Job description
Sr. Demand Planning Analyst (Beauty)*Korean speaking is a major plus!*
Description:
LG H&H Americas is a division of LG H&H, the #1 company in beauty and personal care in Korea. Since creating Korea’s first ever cosmetic products over 75 years ago, LG H&H has become an industry leader in Asia, before expanding our business by merging with The Avon Company to introduce and grow our robust brand portfolio in the US and Canada.
About the role: The Senior Analyst, Demand Planning works cross-practically with support of the interest the executive’s interaction for saleable and special items to drive the Supply Chain exercises and give a steady and exact interest plan that can likewise shape gross deals monetary targets. The Senior Analyst will likewise assume a part in the business arranging process by organizing across the organization and the corporate groups to guarantee close arrangement between request plans, supply plans, and monetary targets.
Responsibilities:
- Maintain SKU level market, channel, key account forecasts as part of a monthly cycle and ensure demand reasonability across portfolio
- Forecast sell through and shipments using a combination of statistical models and monitoring results and alignment to limit fill rate or excess inventory risks
- Lead in the creation of new product forecasts and contribution to the product categories
- Provide detailed, timely forecast reporting across all categories for input to all forecast and business process
- Utilize data sources such as consumption, stock in trade, shipments, and commercial/customer etc. To generate insights to drive forecast accuracy
- Provide analytical support to the Team Director and cross functional teams as required
- Work Cross functionally and establish relationships and manage communication across the organization
- The Demand Planning Lead needs to work effectively with the SCM, corporate teams, and the area teams in Finance, Sales, Marketing, Customer Service, Supply Planning, Analytics Work effectively with the following central teams; Finance, SCM, and Sales teams
- Maintain the forecast inputs across multiple SKU’s split across Various channels including significant Key Account sources of info and visibility
- Keep a definite information on all parts of the interest estimate including, however not restricted to: measurable standard, advancement elevates including cannibalization effects, deals and promoting insight and contender movement, new item presentations, decipher the key patterns affecting business sector, area and class execution
Requirements:
- Bachelor's Degree in related field preferred
- 3+ years of experience within Demand Planning, Sales Planning or Supply Chain required with Beauty, Cosmetics or Consumer Goods industry experience preferred
- Deep understanding of forecasting, analytics, financial/strategic modeling, P&L, retail math, etc.
- Must be highly organized, detail-oriented, and able to multi-task
- Self-starter and a problem solver who can work with minimum supervision
- Customer oriented with good interpersonal skills – customer service skills preferred
- Strong excel & analytical skills required Knowledge and experience with using MS Office (Outlook, Excel, Power Point, and Word)
- Excellent communication skills both verbally and written Bilingual English/ Korean preferred