Job Mission:
Mission Overview: The Forecasting Coordinator supports accurate and timely forecasting and inventory operations by ensuring reliable data management, reporting, system updates, and cross-functional coordination.
Key Contribution: The role helps maintain stock availability, improve planning visibility, and minimize operational and stock-out risks through consistent follow-up and collaboration with relevant teams.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Forecasting & Performance Reporting
Prepare recurring forecasting, inventory, and order-related reports, including Sell-out Forecast, Forecast Accuracy, Inventory Coverage, Order Proposal, and Purchase Plan, ensuring timely and reliable reporting for business review.
2. Forecast Review & Action Follow-up
Prepare materials for forecast review and validation meetings, track forecast accuracy and gaps, support new-product forecast follow-up, and monitor agreed action items through completion.
3. System & Data Management
Support system uploads and maintains accurate forecasting, inventory, and master data to ensure consistency across reporting and planning processes.
4. Sales, Stock & Inventory Monitoring
Extract daily sales data and prepare stock, MTD, and inventory-analysis reports to support visibility on sales performance, stock position, and potential supply risks.
5. Inventory Risk & OOS Follow-up
Support inventory and stock analysis, prepare OOS reporting, and follow up on aging stock, slow-moving items, back orders, and stock-out risks in coordination with relevant teams.
6. Channel Allocation & Order Support
Coordinate stock allocation by channel, order tracking, SPM processes, store allocation, and inbound status to support smooth order execution and channel availability.
7. Cross-functional Coordination
Support recurring team deliverables and coordinate with Marketing, Retail, DC, Finance, Logistics, and Regional/Global teams to ensure alignment on forecasting, inventory, and order-related priorities.
Role Specifications:
Academic / Professional Qualifications
- 4 years university degree
- Good interpersonal communication skills both in English & Korean
Work Experience
- 1+ years experienced in FMCG industry or in supply chain management field
- Forecasting experience in FBP industry is preferred
- Ability to work under pressure and manage multiple priorities
Required Competencies
- Fluent in verbal and written English
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills and able to work with people at all levels
- Strong numerical sense
- Operating skills of computer utility (MS Office program, diverse logistics and ERP programs)
Key Interactions / Stakeholders:
- Local Marketing and Forecasting team.
- Regional and Global Forecasting/Supply chain Team
- DC and Finance team
Organization Relationship:
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Skills Required
- 4 years university degree
- 1+ years experience in FMCG or supply chain management
- Good interpersonal communication skills in English and Korean
- Fluent verbal and written English
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills
- Strong numerical sense
- Operating skills with MS Office and ERP/logistics systems
- Ability to work under pressure and manage multiple priorities
- Forecasting experience in FBP industry
What We Do
CHANEL is a private company and a world leader in creating, developing, manufacturing and distributing luxury products. Founded by Gabrielle Chanel at the beginning of the last century, CHANEL offers a broad range of high-end creations, including Ready-to-Wear, Leather Goods, Fashion Accessories, Eyewear, Fragrances, Makeup, Skincare, Jewelry and Watches. CHANEL is also renowned for its Haute Couture collections, presented twice yearly in Paris, and for having acquired a large number of specialized suppliers, collectively known as the Métiers d’Art. CHANEL is dedicated to ultimate luxury and to the highest level of craftsmanship. It is a brand whose core values remain historically grounded on exceptional creation. As such, CHANEL promotes culture, art, creativity and “savoir-faire” throughout the world, and invests significantly in people, R&D and innovation. At the end of 2019, CHANEL employed more than 28,000 people across the world.
