Head of Business Planning & SCM (Native Korean speaker)

Position Summary

Role and Responsibilities

Business Strategy & Planning

- Develop and execute the annual business plan and long-term strategic roadmap aligned with corporate objectives. - Drive business growth initiatives by identifying market opportunities, competitive trends, customer insights, and commercial risks. - Translate business intelligence into actionable strategies that improve revenue, profitability, market share, and operational efficiency. - Lead the annual budgeting, sales target setting, business forecasting, and management planning processes. - Develop business scenarios and contingency plans to respond to changing market conditions.

Commercial Planning & Performance Management

- Lead the sales forecasting and demand planning process to improve forecast accuracy across Sell-In, Sell-Out, Order Earliness, and inventory planning. - Ensure effective collaboration between Sales and Product Marketing to achieve consensus demand planning aligned with product launch strategies and business priorities. - Monitor and analyze key business KPIs including revenue, market share, profitability, inventory health, sales productivity, forecast accuracy, aging stock, and channel performance. - Consolidate business performance reports and provide meaningful insights, executive commentary, and recommendations on business risks and growth opportunities. - Develop executive dashboards and management reports to support timely business decisions.

Supply Chain & Demand Planning

- Collaborate closely with Supply Chain Management (SCM), Product Marketing, Sales, and factories to ensure demand and supply alignment. - Liaise with RHQ, HQ, and manufacturing facilities to optimize product availability while minimizing inventory risk. - Identify underperforming areas within the supply chain through data analysis and implement corrective actions to improve operational performance. - Drive continuous improvements in forecasting processes, inventory management, supply planning, and order fulfillment. - Ensure all SCM KPIs are achieved in accordance with company objectives and promote SCM best practices across the organization. - Support RHQ and HQ reporting requirements, including preparing business reports and presentations in Korean where required. - Act as the primary liaison between local management, RHQ, HQ, and manufacturing teams to ensure alignment on planning assumptions, demand forecasts, supply strategies, and business priorities.

Commercial Investment & Business Governance

- Lead the planning, governance, and optimization of Total Investment Marketing (TIM) to maximize business returns. - Develop Management Plans covering: Total Mobile revenue planning and tracking, Sales target allocation, Channel allocation. - Budget allocation across Sales, Product Marketing, Retail, and Marketing. - Commercial investment prioritization. - Performance tracking and ROI analysis.

Cross-Functional Leadership

- Build strong partnerships across Sales, Product Marketing, SCM, Finance, Operations, Retail, Customer Service, RHQ, HQ, and manufacturing teams. - Lead cross-functional planning meetings to align product launches, promotional activities, supply readiness, and commercial priorities. - Resolve business issues proactively by facilitating collaboration across departments. - Represent Business Planning in leadership meetings and strategic business projects.

Business Analytics & Decision Support

- Provide strategic business analysis and recommendations to senior management based on commercial, operational, and financial performance. - Identify business risks, operational gaps, and improvement opportunities through advanced analytics. - Develop forecasting models and business scenarios to improve planning accuracy and business agility.

People Leadership

- Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing Business Planning team. - Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement. - Build organizational capability through coaching, succession planning, and talent development. - Promote a data-driven mindset and encourage proactive problem-solving across the team. - Set clear performance expectations and ensure alignment with company objectives.

Skills and Qualifications

- Leads small teams of professionals with limited control over budget spending or HR management such as recruiting or dismissal and supervises mentoring and coaching for team members. - Typically implements short-term action plans rather than developing policy, process or strategy. - Enhances or Improves methods or procedures and provides coaching to team members to ensure successful outcome. - Has expertise in most or all job areas within a job family. - Acts independently to determine methods and procedures on new or special assignments. - Typically requires a minimum 12 years of related experience and a Bachelor's degree, or 10 years and a Master's degree, or a PhD with 7 years experience.

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