**Job Title**: Demand PlannerPhilips is a global leader in health technology, committed to improving billions of lives worldwide and striving to make the world healthier and more sustainable through innovation. Driven by the vision of a better tomorrow.But it's not just what we do, it's who we are. We are 80,000, wonderfully unique individuals, with two things in common. An unwavering sense of purpose and a relentless determination to deliver on our customers' needs. It's what inspires us to create meaningful solutions - the kind that make a real difference - when it matters most.The world and our customers' needs are changing faster than ever before and while we are proud of what we do already, we know we can do more. That's why we need you, to help us tackle increasingly complex challenges posed by ever evolving health and well-being needs.**In this role, you have the opportunity to make life better**;Builds and enriches the business forecast for specific (groups of) customer(s) in Malaysia for Personal Health (PH) - Consumer Electronics. Besides this you will ensure there is one aligned demand plan, signed off by sales, and serves as input into the S&OP process.**You are responsible for**:- Create an aligned short term demand plan, by using/improving the baseline forecast and enriching it with all relevant input from Sales, Customers, Customer Project Managers, Supply/Operations, Marketing, Finance and adjacent functions.- Collect input for phase-in/out & promotions and use it in the enrichment process.- Review and analyze historical sales trends, sell out, stock-in-trade, research demand drivers, prepare forecast analytics and evaluate forecast results.- Lead conversation with relevant counterparts, propose forecast adjustments and challenge assumptions underpinning input.- Support all relevant functions in creating and communicating gap closing scenarios.- Support all relevant functions in preparing, planning, communicating and revising forecast for Customer Forecast Review Meeting, Business Integration Meeting and/or Market Leadership meeting. Adjust forecasts based on meeting outputs.- Maintain the demand plan for respective Customer Planning Groups and ensure timely updates for meetings and business planning snapshots.- Be the gate keeper for potential activation/promotion agreements with customers and feasibility from a supply chain capability perspective.- Build relationship with key customers, prepare and lead joint forecasting meetings.**You are part of**:The Personal Health APAC organization. The aim is to serve customers with speed and excellence through lean, process-driven end-to-end value chains. In your role you will report to the Supply Chain Manager Lead ASEAN.**To succeed in this role, you should have the following skills and experience**:- Bachelor degree or higher.- >5 years work experience in Business or Supply Chain environment.- Experience in Supply Chain Management or in a planning role either further upstream (supply centers, factories) or downstream (retail).- Experience in working in a matrix function organization.- Familiar with ERP and advanced planning tools, preferable SAP and JDA.- Experience in category planning or customer collaboration with strong focus on consumer goods / electronics portfolio.- Commercial understanding.- Collaborative Planning.- Customer First Mindset.- Supply Chain Planning Fundamentals.- Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP).- Ability to use data based root cause analysis for continuous improvement.- Integrated Supply Chain Management.- Inventory Performance Management.**How we work at Philips**Our newly-adopted hybrid work concept fuses flexibility with collaboration to deliver great outcomes for our people and our customers. We are embracing an approach wherein we spend more time together than apart - which for full-time employees translates to an average of at least 3 days working from the office and up to 2 days from home - for our hybrid roles.Hybrid work flexibility means people can meet the changing demands of work and home in the most balanced, productive, and healthy way. Hybrid work flexibility means people can meet the changing demands of work and home in the most balanced, productive, and healthy way.Our hybrid working model is defined in 3 ways:- We believe in the importance of impactful collaboration:_ There's a certain energy when everyone's in the same room that can heighten idea generation and creative friction needed for problem-solving.- We embrace flexibility:_ Choosing where, when and how to work can vary according to task and team schedules. Flexibility isn't office or online, it means choosing the space that works best for you, your teams and our customers on a case-by-case basis.- We want to be at our best:_ The way we work and our workspaces are designed to support our well-being, offer career advancement opportunities, and enable us to be at our best.**Why sh
