Senior Demand Planner (Bilingual English/Korean)

LG - Englewood Cliffs, NJ

Full-time - Mid Level

Englewood Cliffs, NJ

Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing

About the position

The Senior Demand Planner at LG Electronics is responsible for overseeing the planning, scheduling, and monitoring of material movement throughout the production cycle. This role requires a strong focus on inventory management, demand planning, and effective communication with various stakeholders to ensure optimal inventory availability and performance targets are met. The position emphasizes the importance of collaboration across departments and with customers to enhance forecasting accuracy and streamline supply chain operations.

Responsibilities

• Plans, schedules and monitors the movement of material through the production cycle.
• Determines material requirements from engineering and production schedules.
• Coordinates the efficient movement of materials with purchasing, production and engineering.
• Develops specifications for new contract orders.
• Leads S&OP meetings and manages inventory including on-hand, long-term, and obsolete inventory.
• Responsible for procurement business system data input and integrity; creates and maintains bills of material and parts commodities numbers in supply chain management or other enterprise-wide systems.
• Runs forecast review with internal stakeholders and manages, implements, and enhances projects, sales forecasts, system updates, and vendor/purchasing activities for customers and products.
• Drives effective and timely communication with order management, sales, customers, product planning, LG factories, and HQ to maximize inventory availability while meeting performance targets.
• Runs CPFR with customers and manages sell-in & sell-out forecast, inventory management, and channel inventory domestically.
• Manages SCM KPIs based on HQ SCM guidelines and standards regionally and globally.
• Identifies operational issues and corrective action plans to increase forecasting accuracy and reduce manual work to improve CPFR with customers and sales teams.
• Develops new formats, processes, or reports for CPFR and S&OP meetings.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree with 5+ years of Supply Chain related experience in CPFR, SCM, Sales, Sales Operation, Sales programs.
• Bilingual in English and Korean.
• Strong analytical skills and problem-solving skills.
• Builder & appliance experience preferred.
• Advanced proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint.
• Good understanding of CPFR, demand planning, inventory management, sales deductions, and promotions processes.
• Strong communication skills with an ability to deliver complex information to a variety of audiences with impact.
• Creative mindset with the ability to look at a problem from multiple perspectives and generate ideas for solutions.

Benefits

• Equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, creed, religion, gender, age, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
• Pay transparency as part of diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts.