Asia Pacific Planning Intern

The candidate will be responsible for supporting the Regional Planning Team in areas of Demand/Supply Planning and S&OP maturity. One of the below topics will be assigned to the role.
Demand Planning
Engage key stakeholders, support the transformation and maturity of demand planning process across business units.

Key Deliverables

• Review differences in demand planning processes between business units, develop and support the plan to change, standardize and synchronize with associated processes.
• Support idealization and roll-out of improvement plans to mature and drive demand planning excellence in areas such as Forecast - - Value Add, MAPE/BIAS results.
• Develop documentations of standard work / operating procedures.
• Shadow the Regional Planning manager to understand and support effective sensing of demand events, through participation in country-regional handover / demand review meetings and follow-ups.
• Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP), Short Term Exception Meeting (STEM)
• Support Plan Transformation roadmap implementation for pilot markets and business units under the S&OP and STEM workstreams.
• Support the planning and engagement of stakeholders.
• Support the update and evolvement of implementation / change management plan in accordance to the Plan Transformation Blueprint
• Enhance and standardize the Standard Operation Templates (Excel/PowerPoint) for use in S&OP and STEM meetings
• Develop documentations of standard work / operating procedures and processes

- Students pursuing a Bachelor’s Degree, or pursuing a Master’s degree in Supply Chain, Operations Management, Data Science, Systems Engineering, Logistics or Mechanical Engineering.
- Strong interest to grow experience in a supply chain operations environment by learning on the job and completing a project from definition to implementation.
- Ability to work in a team setting and collaborate with multiple internal cross-functional stakeholders.
- Self-starter, fast learner, results oriented and willing to be challenged.

KEY MEASURES
The position will be measured primarily on:
- Deliverable of the topic, i.e. project milestones achievement
- Timeliness, responsiveness, clarity of communication and completeness of follow-ups
- Quality and comprehensiveness of documentations