Demand Planning Specialist
Monster Energy APAC · Ho Chi Minh City
About Monster Energy:
Forget about blending in. That's not our style. We're the risk takers, the trailblazers, the gamechangers. We're not perfect and we don't pretend to be. We're raw, unfiltered, and a bit unconventional. Our drive is just like our athletes, unrivaled. The power is in your hands to define what success looks like and where you want to take your career. It's not just about what we do, but about who we become on along the way. We are much more than a brand here. We are a way of life, a mindset. Join us.
A Day in the Life:
As a Demand Planning Specialist, own and drive the entire S&OP cycle, transforming baseline forecasts into robust, constraint-aligned demand plans. Command the alignment between bottlers and the company by rigorously managing both depletion and delivery performance. Generate and deliver high-impact demand signals to production facilities, ensuring operational readiness and supply continuity. Relentlessly analyze demand fluctuations, uncover risks and opportunities, and proactively recommend strategic adjustments to keep the business ahead of market dynamics.
The Impact You'll Make:
- Support S&OP (sales and operations planning) cycle, driving all monthly demand reviews with bottlers at both depletions and delivery levels. Including supply constrictions (logistics, production, material availability , etc.) that might affect demand plan.
- Sales forecasting based on statistical models and customer insights (baseline construction). Maintain records of all building/destroying blocks, affecting sales in order to correct historical data (example price increase, out of stocks, distribution disruption, etc., volume promotions).
- Assist demand leadership demand signals are properly directed to production centers including availability and production feasibility.
- Review weekly sales advances, identify deviations and trends, timely propose mitigation actions to reduce the impacts on the supply chain after unforeseen deviations.
- Collaborate with demand leadership as needed -- the fulfillment of orders for the costumer, also guarantee agreed volumes are properly ordered from bottler to company, accordingly to frozen periods.
- Sales performance indicators analysis including forecast accuracy, sales compliance, OTIF (on-time, in-full), fill rate. Identify trends, risk operations.
- Support commercial activities that implies demand and sales forecast (like BP construction, etc.)
Who You Are:
- Bachelor's Degree in the field of -- Business Administration, Supply Chain Management, Logistics or related field of study.
- Between 3-5 years of experience in supply chain and logistics
- More than 5 years of experience in Inventory control and customer services
- Computer Skills Desired: Advance user Microsoft Office
- Preferred Certifications: Proficiency using SAP, Power BI
- Additional Knowledge or Skills to be Successful in this role: Fluent English preferred to communicate with regional business counterparts