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About this position

The Demand & Supply Planning Manager at HP is responsible for managing a range of supply chain processes, driving demand and supply matching activities, and improving business processes within a complex global business unit.

Responsibilities

• Manages a broad range of moderately complex supply chain processes, such as inventory analysis and planning, demand management, logistics management, and import/ export operations typically with a large or complex global business unit.
• Identifies opportunities for process improvement and develops recommendations.
• Independently executes the demand and supply matching activities, connecting planning to execution, and identifying issues and their impact.
• Drives backlog management.
• Gathers demand data from country, region and account managers to synthesize information using complex analyses, and delivers demand signals to the supply base to contribute to demand forecasting.
• Coordinates or leads regional and global business unit planning teams to maintain and enhance the current business processes.
• Reviews performance metrics on a regular basis, identifying opportunities for improvement.
• Contributes to priority projects with complex analyses and assists in developing recommendations.
• Communicates requirements and guidelines to the regional and global business unit planning teams.
• Coordinates, develops, and manages a Regulatory Trade Compliance program.

Requirements

• First level university degree or equivalent experience; may have advanced university degree.
• Typically 4-6 years of experience in a supply chain function.
• Strong understanding of supply chain processes (plan, source, make deliver).
• Very strong analytical and data modeling skills.
• Very Strong communication and influencing skills; mastery in English and local language.
• Proven relationship management skills.
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Office skills (Excel, PowerPoint, etc.), statistical analysis, and financial modeling.
• Strong project management skills to lead cross-functional teams; recognized as Subject Matter Expert.
• Strong business acumen and technical knowledge within area of responsibility.
• Strong Understanding of HP's overall supply chain strategy.
• Extensive understanding of Material Requirements Planning (MRP), Available to Promise (ATP) and master scheduling.
• Good understanding of national and international trade requirements to align customs/ trade function with business objectives.
• Thorough knowledge of inventory analysis.
• Strong data analytical skills.
• Strong data modeling and processing skills.
• Handle lots of different worksheets/ datasets and automate the process to the format/ output, even database; and present the result with visualized charts.
• Preferred techniques and experiences are Python/ VBA/ SQL/ MS Power Platform (Power BI, Power Apps,…etc. ).

Benefits