Business & Demand Planning Manager
Henkel
Shanghai, China
Posted on Apr 25, 2026
About This Position
- Lead business planning of retail/ professional business unit.
- Facilitate S&OP cycle, closely co-working commercial teams and coordinate with supply chain to deliver business and function goals.
- Align total business target with commercial team, develop and maintain statistical forecast models for all business channels incorporating business intelligence and forecast information gathered from Sales, Marketing, Trade-marketing and Controlling with both top-down and bottom-up dimensions.
- Maintain and co-ordinate rolling 6-12 months demand forecast with potential urgent demand and NPI/Promotion projects between business and supply planning.
- Facilitate S&OP meeting and demand alignment meeting, to pre-align forecast based on the risks and opportunities input from business.
- Review bias and slow moving to take actions, adjust the demand and statistical model improvement where it is necessary.
- Co-coordinate cross functional research activities to reconcile significant/foreseeing variances and refine the forecast to reflect updated sales and marketing assumptions.
- Facilitate NPI project landing in local.
- 5-8 years of working experience, better with experience in both business planning and demand planning.
- FMCG background.
- Potential, with strong leadership and good communication skills.
- Good English skills.
- Flexible work scheme with flexible hours, hybrid work model, and work from anywhere policy for up to 30 days per year
- Diverse national and international growth opportunities
- Global wellbeing standards with health and preventive care programs
- Gender-neutral parental leave for a minimum of 8 weeks
- Employee Share Plan with voluntary investment and Henkel matching shares
- Comprehensive Group Insurance Scheme
- Annual Physical Examination
- Flexible Benefits cover for dependents
- Company Products Discount
