Responsibilities:

• Develop and manage monthly forecast and drive accuracy improvements in line with agreed targets. Keep track assumptions and rationale behind and perform analysis to identify gap; Validate the demand plan and make sure it is constrained correctly.
• Provide information back to the rest of the supply chain of why there are changes to the demand plan along with reasons why the forecast was not accurate.
• Provide analytical support highlighting changes of demand plan, forecast accuracy / trends so to identify inventory impact to business.
• Plan and forecast for future merchandise buys based on company’s predefined KPIs; Partner with customer service / procurement / production team to monitor the implementation of supply plan and raise demand / supply disconnects.
• Prepare weekly / monthly reports, provide action plans and rise flags; share assumptions and analysis, risks and opportunities, challenges and sales performance review with management team.
• Partner with product / sales team and periodically review product life cycle, product mix, style / lot / SKU efficiency, inventory fill rate, slow moving items or potential dead stock and provide actionable solution plans and root cause analysis.
• Facilitate monthly S&OP process that incorporates input from various departments; ensure updated demand / supply information is available and correctly reflected / maintained in different S&OP and supply / demand tools and make sure S&OP process is delivering the right value for the organization.

Requirements:

• University Graduate preferable in the Supply Chain Management, Product Management or relative discipline
• Minimum 4 years of practical working experience in forecasting and inventory planning, preferably in multi-national company related to fashion industry.
• Solid work experience in retail business and S&OP is highly preferred.
• Strong command of both written and spoken English and Chinese
• Mature thinking, energetic, systematic, attention to details, well organized and able to work under pressure
• Hard working and take initiative toward problems and willing to take new challenges
• Proficient in MS Office especially in MS Excel & PowerPoint; Practical experience in SAP is definitely an advantage

We offer 5–day work week, competitive salary and fringe benefits to the right candidate. Interested parties are invited to send your full resume with current and expected salary via email to recruit_vfhk@vfc.com

Candidates who are not contacted within 1 month from sending the resume should consider your applications filed for future opportunities. 

All applications will be treated in strict confidential and used for recruitment purpose only.

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