LUXASIA is the leading and largest beauty omnichannel brand-builder of Asia Pacific. Since 1986, it has successfully enabled market entry and brand growth for more than 100 luxury beauty brands, the likes of Albion, Aveda, Bvlgari, Calvin Klein, Creed, Diptyque, Hermes, La Prairie, Maison Francis Kurkdjian, Montblanc, Rabanne, Ferragamo, and SK-II. LUXASIA has established Joint Ventures with the likes of LVMH Group, Revlon (for Elizabeth Arden), Puig, Shiseido, and Orveon (for Laura Mercier). The Group's integrated brand-building capabilities include luxury retail, online commerce, consumer marketing & analytics, and supply chain management. LUXASIA is powered by a diverse and dynamic #OneTeam of 2700 talents across a growing footprint of 15 markets. Why Join UsAt LUXASIA, we believe there is beauty within every talent – that is you. We grow you by building your competencies and unleashing your potential. We have curated a vast portfolio of over 100 luxury brands across Asia Pacific and growing. Your work will enrich the lives of millions of consumers across the region. With us, you get to be an entrepreneur, running the business like it is your very own. We give you autonomy but not without guidance and genuine care. We are a diverse and inclusive team that is courageously innovative. Together as #OneTeam, we celebrate differences, embrace change, explore new ideas, take risks, fail fast, and drive results. While challenges at work are inevitable, the journey promises to be fulfilling. With LUXASIA, an exciting career filled with robust professional growth awaits you. Isn’t that beautiful? Overall Role Purpose:We are seeking an experienced regional demand planner, who would like to join our journey of reaching ‘Planning Excellence’ and become the Planning Centre of Excellence. The Regional Demand Planner is responsible for leading all demand planning activities (forecasting and ordering) of a specific portfolio of countries and/or brands, maintaining the optimum balance between service levels (stock availability), cash (stock levels) and replenishment costs. Key Roles & Responsibilities:Be the first line of support to Demand Planners in the regionProvide Demand Planning process and technical subject matter expertise, leadership, and direction to Demand Planning communityBuild Sales forecasts for regions assigned, integrating commercial targets (financial planning, store openings), launch plans, events, seasonality, trends, and products lifecycle.Closely work with local Demand Planning Managers to ensure local knowledge is incorporated into the forecasting model.Lead S&OP process to align all services on sales forecasts, financial plan, launch and animation plansActively communicates situation on slow moving products / discontinued products to the S&M team to determine inventory reduction plans (markdown operations, returns to vendor etc.) and to ensure minimal ageing stock.Conducts regular reviews with key brands to share service rate, supplier fill rate and stock situation, and brainstorm on improvement plans.Participate in building a strong foundation and process for Demand sensing & prediction including business intelligence & insight, by working with different scenarios and take different business aspects into consideration.Defines action plans to improve processes, methods, and tools, and monitor their implementation.Co-ordination of best practice implementation and adherence through process health-checksResponsible for the development and delivery of Demand Planning related trainings to Demand Planning communityDelivering training and coaching across the planning related functions and at key interfacesCo-ordination of best practice implementation and adherence through process health-checks Key Qualifications & Requirements:Bachelor's degree with a preference in supply chain management, mathematics and/or statistics.Demonstrated ability with 5+ years of experience in a regional Supply Chain environment within demand management and digitalization will be appreciated.In depth knowledge and experience of SAP, Advanced Planning Systems, and data analytic tools with a passion for digital innovationAdvanced proficiency with Excel - creating queries and performing complex quantitative analysis to detect correlation and patterns in the data. Knowledge in VBA, Query or Power BI is a plus.Critical thinking to understand the big picture and connect the dots with all organizational layers and ongoing projects/improvements.High level of interpersonal/relationship skills with the ability to communicate optimally with colleagues and management.Analytical capability and data modelling skills; the capability to work with large datasets and develop diagnostic, predictive, and prescriptive analytics models.Team player, proactive, and committed to providing high-quality work to support everyone's needs.Open to new ideas, driving continuous improvement and challenging status quo.Do you have what it takes to succeed in a fast-paced and intense environment? Do you thrive on challenges? Do you want to bring innovative ideas to life? Are you keen to abandon the status quo, try new things, embrace failures as lessons, recover fast, yet always pursue excellence? If so, you are the one we are looking for. JOIN US and let’s grow together. Championing Diversity, Equity and Inclusion LUXASIA aspires to build a One Team of talents that reflects the diversity of the communities in our operating markets. LUXASIA is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all individuals, regardless of their race, colour, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, nationality or ethnic origin, cultural background, social group, marital status, or any other characteristics as provided by law.To explore other careers opportunities, visit our careers page . If you have a question for us, please drop us an email here. We regret to inform you that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Thank you. Recruitment Privacy Notice By proceeding with your application, you confirm that you have read LUXASIA's recruitment privacy notice and consent to the LUXASIA group collecting, processing and disclosing your personal data for purposes specified in the notice. Note To Staffing Agencies Please DO NOT contact LUXASIA’s employees or Talent & Excitement (T&E) team in an attempt to present candidates for our roles. LUXASIA has our own panel of appointed agencies that we work with. Any agency who is interested to work with us must obtain prior written approval from LUXASIA’s T&E team before you submit candidates’ resumes, and then only in conjunction with a valid fully executed contract for service and in response to a specific job opening. LUXASIA will not pay a fee to any Agency that does not have such agreement in place. Thank you for your understanding.
LUXASIA is the leading and largest beauty omnichannel brand-builder of Asia Pacific. Since 1986, it has successfully enabled market entry and brand growth for more than 100 luxury beauty brands, the likes of Albion, Aveda, Bvlgari, Calvin Klein, Creed, Diptyque, Hermes, La Prairie, Maison Francis Kurkdjian, Montblanc, Rabanne, Ferragamo, and SK-II. LUXASIA has established Joint Ventures with the likes of LVMH Group, Revlon (for Elizabeth Arden), Puig, Shiseido, and Orveon (for Laura Mercier). The Group's integrated brand-building capabilities include luxury retail, online commerce, consumer marketing & analytics, and supply chain management. LUXASIA is powered by a diverse and dynamic #OneTeam of 2700 talents across a growing footprint of 15 markets.
Why Join Us
At LUXASIA, we believe there is beauty within every talent – that is you.
We grow you by building your competencies and unleashing your potential. We have curated a vast portfolio of over 100 luxury brands across Asia Pacific and growing. Your work will enrich the lives of millions of consumers across the region. With us, you get to be an entrepreneur, running the business like it is your very own. We give you autonomy but not without guidance and genuine care. We are a diverse and inclusive team that is courageously innovative. Together as #OneTeam, we celebrate differences, embrace change, explore new ideas, take risks, fail fast, and drive results. While challenges at work are inevitable, the journey promises to be fulfilling.
With LUXASIA, an exciting career filled with robust professional growth awaits you. Isn’t that beautiful?
Overall Role Purpose:
We are seeking an experienced regional demand planner, who would like to join our journey of reaching ‘Planning Excellence’ and become the Planning Centre of Excellence. The Regional Demand Planner is responsible for leading all demand planning activities (forecasting and ordering) of a specific portfolio of countries and/or brands, maintaining the optimum balance between service levels (stock availability), cash (stock levels) and replenishment costs.
Key Roles & Responsibilities:
- Be the first line of support to Demand Planners in the region
- Provide Demand Planning process and technical subject matter expertise, leadership, and direction to Demand Planning community
- Build Sales forecasts for regions assigned, integrating commercial targets (financial planning, store openings), launch plans, events, seasonality, trends, and products lifecycle.
- Closely work with local Demand Planning Managers to ensure local knowledge is incorporated into the forecasting model.
- Lead S&OP process to align all services on sales forecasts, financial plan, launch and animation plans
- Actively communicates situation on slow moving products / discontinued products to the S&M team to determine inventory reduction plans (markdown operations, returns to vendor etc.) and to ensure minimal ageing stock.
- Conducts regular reviews with key brands to share service rate, supplier fill rate and stock situation, and brainstorm on improvement plans.
- Participate in building a strong foundation and process for Demand sensing & prediction including business intelligence & insight, by working with different scenarios and take different business aspects into consideration.
- Defines action plans to improve processes, methods, and tools, and monitor their implementation.
- Co-ordination of best practice implementation and adherence through process health-checks
- Responsible for the development and delivery of Demand Planning related trainings to Demand Planning community
- Delivering training and coaching across the planning related functions and at key interfaces
- Co-ordination of best practice implementation and adherence through process health-checks
Key Qualifications & Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree with a preference in supply chain management, mathematics and/or statistics.
- Demonstrated ability with 5+ years of experience in a regional Supply Chain environment within demand management and digitalization will be appreciated.
- In depth knowledge and experience of SAP, Advanced Planning Systems, and data analytic tools with a passion for digital innovation
- Advanced proficiency with Excel - creating queries and performing complex quantitative analysis to detect correlation and patterns in the data. Knowledge in VBA, Query or Power BI is a plus.
- Critical thinking to understand the big picture and connect the dots with all organizational layers and ongoing projects/improvements.
- High level of interpersonal/relationship skills with the ability to communicate optimally with colleagues and management.
- Analytical capability and data modelling skills; the capability to work with large datasets and develop diagnostic, predictive, and prescriptive analytics models.
- Team player, proactive, and committed to providing high-quality work to support everyone's needs.
- Open to new ideas, driving continuous improvement and challenging status quo.
Do you have what it takes to succeed in a fast-paced and intense environment? Do you thrive on challenges? Do you want to bring innovative ideas to life? Are you keen to abandon the status quo, try new things, embrace failures as lessons, recover fast, yet always pursue excellence?
If so, you are the one we are looking for. JOIN US and let’s grow together.
Championing Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
LUXASIA aspires to build a One Team of talents that reflects the diversity of the communities in our operating markets. LUXASIA is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all individuals, regardless of their race, colour, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, nationality or ethnic origin, cultural background, social group, marital status, or any other characteristics as provided by law.
To explore other careers opportunities, visit our careers page . If you have a question for us, please drop us an email here.
We regret to inform you that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Thank you.
Recruitment Privacy Notice
By proceeding with your application, you confirm that you have read LUXASIA's recruitment privacy notice and consent to the LUXASIA group collecting, processing and disclosing your personal data for purposes specified in the notice.
Note To Staffing Agencies
Please DO NOT contact LUXASIA’s employees or Talent & Excitement (T&E) team in an attempt to present candidates for our roles. LUXASIA has our own panel of appointed agencies that we work with. Any agency who is interested to work with us must obtain prior written approval from LUXASIA’s T&E team before you submit candidates’ resumes, and then only in conjunction with a valid fully executed contract for service and in response to a specific job opening. LUXASIA will not pay a fee to any Agency that does not have such agreement in place. Thank you for your understanding.
LUXASIA is the leading beauty omnichannel distribution platform of Asia Pacific that has successfully enabled brand growth for more than 120 luxury beauty brands. Our integrated brand-building capabilities include luxury retail, online commerce, consumer marketing, and supply chain management. Since 1986, the company has partnered the world’s finest brands, such as Aveda, Bvlgari, Calvin Klein, Diptyque, Hermes, La Prairie, Montblanc, and SK-II. We have also established Joint Ventures with the likes of LVMH Group, Elizabeth Arden, Puig, Yves Rocher, and By Terry. At the core of our business is a diverse and dynamic #OneTeam of 2000 talents that shapes the face of luxury beauty, and delights consumers daily across our growing footprint of 15 markets. Come join us now. Why Join Us? At LUXASIA, we believe there is beauty within every talent – that is you. We grow you by building your competencies and unleashing your potential. We have curated a vast portfolio of over 100 luxury brands across Asia Pacific, and growing. Your work will enrich the lives of millions of consumers across the region. With us, you get to be an entrepreneur, running the business like it is your very own. We give you the automony but not without guidance and geniune care. We are a diverse and inclusive team that is courageously innovative. Together as #OneTeam, we celebrate differences, embrace change, explore new ideas, take risks, fail fast, and drive results. While challenges at work are inevitable, the journey promises to be fulfilling.To find out more about LUXASIA career opportunities? Please visit our careers page @ https://www.luxasia.com/careers/ If you have a question for us, please contact us at https://www.luxasia.com/contact/Did we get you excited? You can learn more about us:> LinkedIn> Instagram: @luxasia
LUXASIA is the leading beauty omnichannel distribution platform of Asia Pacific that has successfully enabled brand growth for more than 120 luxury beauty brands. Our integrated brand-building capabilities include luxury retail, online commerce, consumer marketing, and supply chain management. Since 1986, the company has partnered the world’s finest brands, such as Aveda, Bvlgari, Calvin Klein, Diptyque, Hermes, La Prairie, Montblanc, and SK-II. We have also established Joint Ventures with the likes of LVMH Group, Elizabeth Arden, Puig, Yves Rocher, and By Terry. At the core of our business is a diverse and dynamic #OneTeam of 2000 talents that shapes the face of luxury beauty, and delights consumers daily across our growing footprint of 15 markets. Come join us now.
Why Join Us?
At LUXASIA, we believe there is beauty within every talent – that is you.
We grow you by building your competencies and unleashing your potential. We have curated a vast portfolio of over 100 luxury brands across Asia Pacific, and growing. Your work will enrich the lives of millions of consumers across the region. With us, you get to be an entrepreneur, running the business like it is your very own. We give you the automony but not without guidance and geniune care. We are a diverse and inclusive team that is courageously innovative. Together as #OneTeam, we celebrate differences, embrace change, explore new ideas, take risks, fail fast, and drive results. While challenges at work are inevitable, the journey promises to be fulfilling.
To find out more about LUXASIA career opportunities? Please visit our careers page @ https://www.luxasia.com/careers/
If you have a question for us, please contact us at https://www.luxasia.com/contact/
Did we get you excited? You can learn more about us:
> LinkedIn
> Instagram: @luxasia
