Senior Specialist, APAC CN Supply Execution Management

Job Description

Senior Specialist, APAC CN Supply Execution Management

Are you interested in balancing dynamic demand & supply across APAC/China/LEGO Retail and delivering impact to BUs by bringing more LEGO Sets into the hands of children?

Apply your operational execution skills in balancing short-term demand and supply, with a view of attaining required service levels while minimizing excess while supporting the business in achieving its objectives.

Play your part in our team succeeding

We connect the dots by partnering our stakeholders to balance demand and supply. This is done by driving cross-functional consensus across the operational horizon through collective processes and governance. As markets are at different maturity levels, You will need to show strong analytical mindset and influencing skills to both manage both regional and local BU market needs.

Core Responsibilities

• Support the Business Units in achieving operational excellence in key metrics such as novelties readiness, retail stocks availability, and Service level to customers & consumers.
• Optimize demand/supply balancing in the operational horizon via in-depth analysis on weekly demand trends and corresponding supply imbalances.
• Work closely with BUs on topline management within operational horizon and ensuring the sync up E2E across supply Chain, leveraging SKU level insights to bring visibility and analysis on business risks and opportunities to facilitate decision-making
• Collaborate with cross functional stakeholders to support execution of the weekly and monthly processes, and ensuring high coherency and standardization where applicable
• Driving governance of Regional SEM tools and processes to ensure coherence

Do you have what it takes?

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain Management, Business Administration, or related field, with 5+ years’ relevant experience.
• Preferred: Tertiary qualifications in project management (e.g. PMI) or supply chain / operations certifications (e.g. APICS, CPIM).
• Min 3 years of work experience in demand and supply management, with good understanding of retail, planning and stock management strategies.
• Strong analytical & problem-solving skills with ability to analyses, draw conclusions, and recommend appropriate actions in response to data
• Business oriented, paying attention to details and result driven.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with ability to influence stakeholders across end-to-end value chain.
• Rigorous and organized approach with strict time demand and deadlines and able to deliver under pressure
• Strong stakeholder influencing skills, able to bring diverse and constructive view points together
• Experienced in leveraging digital tools to drive performance, including Power BI, SAP, and advanced Excel.

Nice to have:

• Proactive and takes ownership for continuous improvement
• Strong team player who supports colleagues and enables team development
• Thrives in a dynamic environment; views change as opportunity
• and embraces the nature of a growing business.
• Committed to delivering complete outcomes, with curiosity beyond own function.

Language Requirements

• Advanced English proficiency is essential (corporate language of the LEGO Group).
• Mandarin or other Asian languages is a strong plus.

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Applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis. However, please note we do amend or withdraw our jobs and reserve the right to do so at any time, including prior to any advertised closing date. So, if you're interested in this role we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

What’s in it for you?

Here is what you can expect:

Family Care Leave - We offer enhanced paid leave options for those important times.

Insurances – All colleagues are covered by our life and disability insurance which provides protection and peace of mind.

Wellbeing - We want our people to feel well and thrive. We offer resources and benefits to nurture physical and mental wellbeing along with opportunities to build community and inspire creativity.

Colleague Discount – We know you'll love to build, so from day 1 you will qualify for our generous colleague discount.

Bonus - We do our best work to succeed together. When goals are reached and if eligible, you'll be rewarded through our bonus scheme.

Workplace - When you join the team you'll be assigned a primary workplace location i.e. one of our Offices, stores or factories. Our hybrid work policy means an average of 3 days per week in the office. The hiring team will discuss the policy and role eligibility with you during the recruitment process.

Children are our role models. Their curiosity, creativity and imagination inspire everything we do. We strive to create a diverse, dynamic and inclusive culture of play at the LEGO Group, where everyone feels safe, valued and they belong.

The LEGO Group is highly committed to equal employment opportunity and equal pay and seeks to encourage applicants from all backgrounds (eg. sex, gender identity or expression, race/ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, age and religion) to apply for roles in our team.

The LEGO Group is fully committed to Children’s Rights and Child Wellbeing across the globe. Candidates offered positions with high engagement with children are required to take part in Child Safeguarding Background Screening, as a condition of the offer.

Thank you for sharing our global commitment to Children’s Rights.

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