Demand Planner (Fixed Term Contract)

City: Shinagawa, Japan

---

About the Position

We are Reckitt, home to the world's best-loved and trusted hygiene, health, and nutrition brands. Our purpose is to protect, heal, and nurture in the relentless pursuit of a cleaner, healthier world. Join us in our fight to make access to the highest quality hygiene, wellness, and nourishment a right and not a privilege.

The Demand Planner is responsible for all forecasting activities associated with customers and products. The Demand Planner creates and maintains forecasts as a key part of the company's S&OP process, incorporating business intelligence and forecast information gathered from sales, marketing, finance, Sales Analysts, and other sources.

---

Responsibilities

• Manage the creation and evaluation of the monthly forecast by SKU by analyzing various sales (Online/Offline channels) and market consumption (Intage and POS from specific customers) historical data.
• Lead monthly pre-S&OP/S&OP meetings to align the company's sales forecast with Trade marketing, sales, and marketing based on the forecast built by the demand planner. Get the latest information from the cross-functional team and reflect it into the forecast.
• Kinaxis Rapid Response Demand planning module Superuser role. Lead full implementation/utilization co-working with the Global E2E (End to End) training team.
• Lead the creation of NPD (New launch products) forecast together with the commercial team by utilizing inputs and historical sales data.
• Drive forecast accuracy improvement with Online/Offline key accounts by communicating closely with the related team.
• Work closely with supply planners, sharing sales forecasts to ensure service levels.

---

Requirements

• Previous demand forecasting or supply planning experience preferably in an FMCG environment - 3 years
• Highly analytical and numerate
• Ability to handle high levels of pressure
• Sense of responsibility and ownership
• Committed and strong team player
• Proven ability to operate in a matrix environment and work effectively with all levels of employees across organizational boundaries
• Ability to successfully prioritize and manage multiple tasks while adhering to specified deadlines
• Proven expertise and skills in household/pharma product manufacturing technologies are advantageous
• Good working knowledge of Excel (vlookup, pivot, sumif are minimum required skillset), Power BI, and Kinaxis Rapid Response/SAP/JDE knowledge and experience is an added advantage.
• English (Speaking/Writing) both is a MUST

---

We Offer

With inclusion at the heart of everything we do, working alongside our four global Employee Resource Groups, we support our people at every step of their career journey, helping them to succeed in their own individual way.

We invest in the wellbeing of our people through parental benefits, an Employee Assistance Program to promote mental health, and life insurance for all employees globally. We have a range of other benefits in line with the local market. Through our global share plans, we offer the opportunity to save and share in Reckitt's potential future successes. For eligible roles, we also offer short-term incentives to recognize, appreciate, and reward your work for delivering outstanding results. You will be rewarded in line with Reckitt's pay-for-performance philosophy.

---

About the Company

We recognize that in real life, great people don't always 'tick all the boxes'. That's why we hire for potential as well as experience. Even if you don't meet every point on the job description, if this role and our company feels like a good fit for you, we still want to hear from you.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, disability or medical condition; color, ethnicity, race, citizenship, and national origin; religion, faith; pregnancy, family status and caring responsibilities; sexual orientation; sex, gender identity, gender expression, and transgender identity; protected veteran status; size or any other basis protected by appropriate law.

Job Segment: Counseling, Nutrition, Healthcare