Senior Executive, Demand Planner (FMCG)

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Kuala Lumpur, Wilayah Persekutuan Kuala Lumpur
In-Office
Mid level
Food
The Role
The Senior Executive, Demand Planner will prepare demand forecasts, collaborate with sales teams, perform variance analysis, and manage stock allocation to meet sales and production requirements.
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Company Description

We are Malayan Flour Mills Berhad, an established billions ringgit public listed food manufacturing company. We aspire to be a leading food manufacturing enterprise in the region and have also diversified its business from flour milling to the sale of raw materials and integrated poultry business. Its integrated poultry business includes the breeding and sale of day-old chicks, broiler and breeder farming, processing and sale of poultry products and feeds milling. With over 50 years of experience and workforce of over 2600 in Malaysia and Vietnam, as part of our expansion plans we are seeking the right talents to be part of our winning team.

Job Description

  • Prepare demand forecast to meet the sales requirements & plant capacity by reviewing weekly requirement.

  • Monitor potential risks and opportunities based on analysis of demand forecast trends by customers, products and segment level. Incorporate forecasted incremental sales due to Promotional or Marketing activities.

  • Collaborate with Sales Team to close up any anticipated gaps between demand forecast against actual sales orders. Monitor the progress of actual production against actual sales orders and feed back to sales team.

  • Work with Sales team to forecast customer needs, follow up on orders to ensure timely and complete delivery and prioritize customer orders fulfilment.

  • Perform variance analysis between sales forecast against budget and measure accuracy of forecast. Communicate the desirable level of forecast accuracy to Sales team in order to improve forecast accuracy from bottom-up approach

  • Participate and contribute in cross functional supply chain projects and initiatives for process improvements.

  • Prioritize and manage allocation of stocks across regions, customers and products.

  • Plans initial stocking quantities for new products and participate in Sales and Marketing activity planning.

  • Manage information dissemination and coordination between Sales, Sales Support, Trade Marketing, Marketing, Plant, Logistics and Warehouse team

  • Develop, prepare and update monthly demand forecasting information to support the Sales team.

  • Monitor aging stocks or slow-moving products to report to respective stakeholders and propose the potential feasible interventions to minimize potential losses.

  • Perform any other tasks and assignments as directed by the management from time to time.

Qualifications

Qualifications: 

  • Bachelor degree of any business discipline

Experience: 

  • 4 – 6 years of working experiences in marketing and sales

Additional Information

MFM is honored to receive the following awards:

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  • 2022
  • HR Asia Best Companies to Work for in Asia 2022 (Malaysia Edition)
  • 2021
  • HR Asia Best Companies to Work for in Asia 2021 (Malaysia Edition)
  • 2020
  • HR Asia Best Companies to Work for in Asia 2020 (Malaysia Edition)
  • 2019
  • Human Resources Asia Recruitment Awards 2019, Best Onboarding Experience (Bronze)
  • HR Asia Best Companies to Work for in Asia 2019 (Malaysia Edition)
  • 2018
  • HR Asia Best Companies to Work for in Asia 2018 (Malaysia Edition)

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The Company
Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur
317 Employees
Year Founded: 1961

What We Do

Established in 1961, Malayan Flour Mills Berhad (MFM) is the pioneer in the flour milling industry in Malaysia. MFM has grown to become the leading flour miller in Malaysia with regional presence in Vietnam and Indonesia. Over the years, we have expanded into poultry integration, aquaculture, and raw material trading. In FY21, the group revenue was RM2.43 billion. MFM is one of the major poultry integrators in poultry feeds, breeding, farming with a state-of-the-art processing facility across the poultry value chain. Designed to meet the domestic and international markets, the advanced facility will process up to 300,000 birds per day. With our asset of 3,000 people, we have transformed and grown in Malaysia and regionally. Synergising with our workforce, we embrace Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Internet of Things (IoT) in our day-to-day business. Through our partnership with Tyson Food, Inc. and Toyota Tsusho Group, we aspire to be a leading global halal food enterprise while achieving sustainable development goals. Building the workforce of the future…Today. We invite you to be part of our team! Visit https://www.mfm.com.my/careers/ or apply via the Jobs tab in Linkedin.

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