Mission Statement:

Generate unconstrained demand plan and finished goods rationalization in close coordination with relevant functions. Measure, report and drive improvement of demand planning accuracy

Your Responsibility:

• You will plan and/or controls inventory of finished goods for sales warehouses, distribution centers, and factory mixing points to meet sales and distribution demand
• You must analyze inventory levels, inventory positioning, and planned production and sales forecasts
• You must develops and maintains inputs to inventory system, including network changes, lead-times, cost and delivery expectations, past and future promotional events, and new product introductions.
• Coordinates with traffic, production planning, and warehouse personnel to ensure appropriate routing, scheduling, and storing of goods.
• Partners with Sales, Projects, Finance, Product Management, and internal customers to develop best practices for rolling forecast (e.g. implement appropriate forecasting technique, identify macro-economic factors, review trends and monitor mix shifts amongst product family options, understand changes in demand drivers etc.) thereby improving forecast accuracy.
• Especially for systems businesses, the demand planner needs to include bid & proposal, project execution and reconciliation with finance.
• Works with Product Management team to coordinate new product launches, phase outs and platform changes etc. and incorporate them into the demand plan.
• Monitors finished goods Stock Keeping Units (SKU) levels, recommends SKU rationalization initiatives and feeds them into the inventory check book (ICBK).
• Reviews and improves forecast accuracy both at the aggregate and the individual product level by identifying key root causes for forecast errors, and implements initiatives to improve future forecast accuracy.
• Living the Hitachi Energy's core values of safety and integrity, which means taking responsibility for your own actions while caring for your colleagues and the business.

Your Background:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent education, preferably in Economics.
• 2 years related experience and/or training. 
• Knowledge and experience on inventory calculation & analyzing, plan production and sale forecast.
• Strong skills with team-oriented attitude in safety & integrity, quality & customer focus, ownership & performance, collaboration & trust.
• Solid understanding of database structures and data modeling.
• Able to work under pressure.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Good communication skills and able to communicate with different levels in organization.
• Fluent in English.