Regional Planner, Integrated Business Planning

at  Olympus Australia

DEMAND PLANNING:

• Collaborate with the sales & marketing team to gather quantitative and qualitative forecasts, product life cycle updates, and promotional plans.
• Conduct a pre-demand review meeting with sales & marketing at SKU level and validate outliers with cross-functional teams and reach consensus.
• Develop and manage demand forecasting processes across multiple BUs, leveraging statistical models, historical data, and market insights.
• Work closely with sales, marketing, business planning, finance and supply chain operations to understand demand drivers and align forecasts with business goals
• Lead the monthly demand review meeting for Medical capital equipment and accessories and consumable products with function head to sign off consensus forecast
• Product portfolio management and maintenance and ensuring the phase in/out schedule in alignment with inventory/supply management.
• Coordinate with Business on allocation decision with data-driven proposal
• Conduct “what-if” scenario analysis to assess the impact of market changes, supply constraints, or internal disruptions and provide recommendations for actions.
• Maintain a rolling forecast of demand from external customers for the full planning horizon (3~18 months or as per functional planning guidelines)
• Report and analyse forecast accuracy performance metrics, and identify root cause analysis and corrective actions.

WANT TO KNOW MORE?

Confidential discussions are welcome; contact our Regional Talent Acquisition Specialist.
A comprehensive Job Description is available on our Careers page.

Reporting to Senior Manager, Integrated Business planning, The Regional planner’s role is to ensure efficient and strategic coordination of either demand or supply planning within APAC. Regional Planner helps the business maintain a balance between customer demand and supply capabilities, contributing to improved service levels, reduced costs, and better decision-making across departments. This role will be responsible for either demand or supply planning, depending on the evolving needs of the team. The specific area of focus (demand or supply) will be determined following a planned restructuring of the team.