Demand Planning Manager Consumer, China

What You'll Do

• You are requested to improve S&OP, S&OE, RvCC, AOP process health level, including
• You own the demand planning process for the cluster and develop the linkages among the cross-functional team
• You are responsible to provide guidance for and align on a robust demand-based forecast for the countries at all meaningful levels, supporting both S&OP months) and RvsCC (5-year) horizon. Employ an effective demand segmentation strategy to focus on the key products and key customers while using statistical forecast as basis for the rest of the volume.
• You need to develop discipline of incorporating sales and marketing inputs into the demand plan and drive the consensus between the Cluster (top-down) and Country roll-up (bottom-up) view of demand, supported by documentation of assumption changes, risk and opportunities and reasons to believe. Ensure a robust handoff to Supply Planning to promote an Advantaged Supply Chain that will ensure product availability and optimize working capital investment.
• You are requested to feed the demand input into the cluster and regional S&OP process and provide fact-based advice to the business to facilitate the cluster decisions on allocation of available supply. Propagate the demand signals into the organization (Supply, Finance, Procurement, Sales and Marketing, Product Management).
• You need to drive demand planning business process excellence through standardized and meaningful processes and aids, aligned with global and regional standards. Facilitate a demand planning culture that ensures that monthly forecast submission deadlines are respected, and drives key performance objectives of forecast accuracy and sales plan stability.
• You are responsibility to continuously drive the optimization on demand planning effectiveness and efficiency, including
• You need to align and establish the ABP process with pricing, distribution, marketing and sales team to identify the clear R&O
• You are responsible to establish dollarized S&OP process and drive the business analysis for channel-based demand discussion.
• You are requested to lead and standardize the SFA loss analysis and idenfity the action plans by each building blocks.
• You will collaborate with region team for ML enhancement and drive continuous improvement projects or new initiatives to drive changes.

What We're Looking For

• You with 5 years working experience in sales operations, marketing operations, demand / supply planning at minimum.
• You with 2-3 years working experience on continuous improvement within sales forecasting, demand planning, and inventory management or operations planning.Supply Chain and operation related experience is a plus.
• You with experience in S&OP process design and optimization.
• You with excellent communication and data presentation skills, ability to present complex analytical data and results in a simple way.
• You are a professional and interpersonal skills in working with sales/marketing managers, high flexibility and ability to drive change and deliver results under pressure.
• You are self-confidence and assertiveness in questioning numbers and challenging assumptions being made by others.
• You with excellent negotiation skills / experience with diplomatic handling of challenging cross functional and business relationships by persuading, convincing and build partnerships in order to reach consensus.
• You with Data analysis, e.g. tableau, python is a plus.

Goodyear is one of the world's largest tire companies. It employs about 68,000 people and manufactures its products in 51 facilities in 19 countries around the world. Its two Innovation Centers in Akron, Ohio, and Colmar-Berg, Luxembourg, strive to develop state-of-the-art products and services that set the technology and performance standard for the industry. 

Goodyear is an equal employment opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any characteristic protected by law.