Regional Demand Planner

Job description

Regional Demand Planner

  

Job Description:

   

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) is an industry leading technology company that enables customers to go further, faster. With the industry’s most comprehensive portfolio, spanning the cloud to the data center to workplace applications, our technology and services help customers around the world make IT more efficient, more productive and more secure.

HPE Aruba offers a comprehensive open and standards-based portfolio designed to address a broad range of customer segments, from small & medium businesses, to the largest enterprises with advanced requirements for leading branch and campus LAN solutions. HPE’s innovative technology and open, standards-based approach to networking is resonating with customers around the world, and HPE Aruba revenue exceeds the sum of its next five competitors. 

Our Supply Chain & Procurement organizations are counted as some of the largest in the world in terms of revenue, network, and spend. These groups balance volume and complexity across HPE owned, and partner factories and suppliers, to bring advanced technology solutions such as servers, storage and networking together into one HPE Converged Infrastructure. 

Job description

·  Develop demand forecasts at multiple levels of aggregation for multiple time horizons to support countries in the Asia-Pacific (including Japan) region
·  Review historical sales trends, research demand drivers, develop statistical forecast models, prepare forecast data and evaluate forecast results
·  Create statistical forecasts:
- Gather, analyze and validate data
- Execute statistical modeling software
- Review resulting statistical forecast model
- Apply error analysis techniques to improve forecasting
- Summarize/aggregate statistical forecasts
·  Incorporate introduction of new products and end of sales of existing products into your demand plan consideration
·  Interact with sales, marketing, and finance to understand demand forecast drivers and align demand forecast with sales/finance revenue forecast
·  Understand product categories and the go-to-market strategies for each product categories
·  Work with deal management to capture potential demand spikes due to LVO or specific deals
·  Coordinate cross-functional activities to reconcile significant variances and refine the forecast to reflect updated sales and marketing assumptions
·  Closely coordinate and communicate updated forecast and action plans with supply planning and other functions in supply chain
·  Use and maintain the Demand Planning (ie IBP) software as the primary forecasting system tool.
·  Regularly review forecast key performance index, conduct root cause analysis and come out with forward looking actions to address performance gaps
·  Regular meeting with other region teams as well as global team to review regional performance and share moving forward forecast strategy
·  May participate in pan HPE projects

Education and experience

·  Bachelor degree especially in supply chain with strong inclination to statistics
·  Possess 3 years or more of relevant working experience in demand planning,
·  Experience in S&OP is preferred

Knowledge and Skills

·  Demonstrated proficiency in statistics, forecasting and forecasting methods with an understanding of their financial and operational impacts
·  This position requires strong analytical, organizational, decision making, and presentation skills
·  Strong interpersonal skills are also essential to effectively interact with all teams, areas and levels of business affecting the forecast process
·  Familiar with Excel and PowerPoint tools
·  End to end supply chain knowledge is preferred
·  Knowledge of IBP DP (integrated business planning - demand planning module), Minitab or other software related to demand planning is preferred

Job:
Supply Chain & Operations

Job Level:
Specialist

    

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is EEO F/M/Protected Veteran/ Individual with Disabilities.

   

HPE will comply with all applicable laws related to the use of arrest and conviction records, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and similar laws and will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories.