9 Business Forecasting jobs in Singapore

Pioneering trusted medical solutions to improve the lives we touch: Convatec is a global medical products and technologies company, focused on solutions for the management of chronic conditions, with leading positions in Advanced Wound Care, Ostomy Care, Continence Care, and Infusion Care. With more than 10,000 colleagues, we provide our products and services in around 90 countries, united by a promise to be forever caring. Our solutions provide a range of benefits, from infection prevention and protection of at-risk skin, to improved patient outcomes and reduced care costs. Convatec's revenues in 2024 were over $2 billion. The company is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index (LSE:CTEC). To learn more please visit APAC & MEA Demand Planning and S&OP Manager will be accountable for leading the Supply Chain team to secure sustainable and high performing operation including partner service provider for Convatec in APAC and MEA markets. You will be responsible in leading the supply chain strategic direction thru Demand Planning and S&OP Process, manage Supply and inventory management, product life cycle management as well as managing regional teams.
**Key Responsibilities:**
**1. Demand Planning and S&OP Process:**
+ Manage the Regions demand plans over the planning horizon driving corrective actions, and reconciliation with the Regional Demand Planning, Financials and Commercial teams.
+ Owner of the Regional forecasting tool including all data inputs per the update cycles
+ Actively develop the relationship with Regional Commercial and Financial teams to build Regional/Market knowledge over a 5-year horizon. (Strat Planning)
+ Own, monitor and publish performance metrics & reports e.g. Business Unit dashboard and status reports. Includes development and maintaining KPI's.
**2. Supply & Inventory Management:**
+ Accountable for finished goods inventory including regional DC for the Business Units within the Region.
+ Review and align actions, allocation for any constraints items to mitigate BO risk proactively including appropriate communication to stakeholders.
+ Review excess inventory and obsolescence and provide re-active and pro-active steps to reduce risk with close coordination with the commercial and financial teams.
+ Identify areas for improved efficiency in service and inventory and align SAP parameters accordingly.
+ Proactively monitor ageing stock, making recommendations to the Commercial and Supply Planning teams to reduce write offs
**3. Product Life Cycle Management including the changes impacts regulation:**
+ Accountable for the Business Unit product portfolio, new product launches, CCR changes impacting on markets and end of life activities.
+ Accountable for systems being aligned during launch, impacting on markets and discontinuation processes.
+ Reduce risk by communicating clearly with Commercial teams by identifying deviations from launch or discontinuation plans.
+ Accountable for any changes which impacts inventory requirements. E.g., pack design change which needs stock build up for existing version of stock before the registration completion for Taiwan.
**4. Others:**
+ Ensure building appropriate team structure aligning with strategic direction.
+ Owns the annual budget development and delivery to that annual distribution budget.
+ Support GEM/GSC projects and markets on a need basis.
+ Ensure team members are engaged and appropriately trained to meet set standards and receive targeted coaching and development as required, maintaining a focus on achieving positive customer and patient outcomes.
**To be successful in this role you will have:**
+ Min 15 years experience across critical Supply Chain areas (Demand Planning, Supply Planning and Execution, Logistics, Inventory Management)
+ Min 5 years in planning functions (Demand planning, S&OP) and leading team across multiple locations.
+ Certification with CPIM or CSCP (APICS Certification highly preferred)
+ Experience managing a customer service team, including implementation and measurement of customer experience initiatives.
+ Demonstrated ability to lead others with empathy, encouragement and sufficient challenge / stretch.
+ Experience managing 3rd party providers, ensuring consistent delivery to agreed standards and maximising value outcomes.
+ Effective communication and collaboration skills. Ability to partner with and influence others without direct authority, building consensus through collaboration across functions and all organizational levels.
+ Able to advance supply chain decisions based on expected business outcomes. Proactively identify trends, opportunities and problems impacting commercial outcomes.
+ Proven track record of process improvement.
+ Advanced knowledge of SAP transactions, reports and capabilities. Especially SAP IBP modules (or alternative) experience highly preferred
**Qualifications & education**
+ Master/Bachelor's degree in relevant field
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**Position Snapshot**
Location: Singapore
Company: Nestle Singapore
Type of contract: Permanent
Joining Nestlé means you are joining the largest Food and Beverage Company in the world? At our very core, we are a human environment - passionate people driven by the purpose of enhancing the quality of life and contributing to a healthier future? A Nestle career empowers you to make an impact locally and globally, as you are provided with the opportunity to make a mark and stand out, as long as you seek it? With Nestle, you are enabled and encouraged to grow not only as professionals, but also as people.
**Primary Responsibilities**
**Demand Planning**
- Develop, maintain and improve a Demand Plan for a portfolio of products and customers, which also includes the full ownership of generating and maintaining Promotion Uplift Volume.
- Ensure the alignment of this Demand Plan with internal and external partners through the Monthly Business Planning and Collaborative Planning processes
Identify and manage exceptions, and monitor performance in order to continually improve the quality and reliability of the Demand Plan and the Company's ability to sense and respond to changing circumstances.
- Drives alignment of business assumptions across functions and uses them as an input to build robust plans. Uses analytics to provides visibility on future situation and alternate scenarios to support effective business decisions.
**Supply Planning**
- To manage the Supply Network of the assigned area of the business by replenishing each dispatch point to meet customer service objectives whilst maintaining optimal stock cover that also takes into account the distribution costs.
- Analyze net dispatch requirements and prepare/maintain a coordinated set of supply and deployment plans of finished (or semi-finished) goods in order to meet customer demand within min/max stock corridors, whilst minimizing the total delivered costs (production, distribution and inventory costs), taking into account the network complexity and the supply constraints.
**Key Outputs**
1) Customer Order Fulfillment
2) Demand Plan Accuracy
3) Stock Inventory Levels
4) Freshness of Stock & Bad Goods management
5) Support monthly business planning process
6) Support Event Management activities
7) Support Copacking activities
8) Collaborate with DSP manager to ensure Demand Planning best practises are implemented and adhered to.
9) Participate in supply chain efficiency projects
10) Timely preparation of all reports to facilitate meeting and action plan
**Key Experiences**
+ Min 5 years experience for Diploma Holder or Min 2-3 years planning experience for Degree holder
+ Proficient in the use of MS office preferably with experience in SAP and APO
+ Experience of SAP/OMP planning systems preferable
+ Strong analytical skills

Key Job Responsibilities

• Lead and Define the E2E Demand Driven Agile planning strategy with focus on demand and according to the business unit needs with each cluster and to move from a monthly planning cycle to weekly bucket with O+O mindset.
• Manage the Demand community based in the countries to define their roles and cascade the zone’s priorities.
• Lead the transformation project which is the in-house Ai-ML demand planning tool for SAPMENA Ecommerce D2C . This will require management along with others the business owner, central governance and liaise with all stakeholders of country and zone.

• Contribute to define, write and update planning norms and processes

• Ensure Demand fundamentals are deployed, monitor the results through audits and assessment

• Animate , Educate and Upskill to the O+O strategy for the planning community across the region.

• Ensure service and Global Performance Management and work on optimization to improve anticipation .

• Work closely and hand in with the central teams in NOE for updating Best Practices, trainings and all group tools roll out for the domains of planning and contribute share of voice to Next Gen Planning

• Define and challenge the performance indicators (KPIs) and make recommendations for improvement

• Build the frame of activity and investment in scope(budget, 3 years plan) for countries within the zone.

• Be the gatekeeper for implementation of norms and process in alignment with central operations.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 6 years of strong operational experience preferably in Demand & Supply operations management with exposure to systems & tools.

• Proven leadership capabilities with the ability to manage both direct and indirect matrix resources.

• Proactive self starter and excellent stakeholder management.

• Good Network across Supply chain landscape in business, customers and central teams

• Strong operational excellence, agility, and customer orientation to foster a demand-driven supply chain with service as a priority .

• Highly organized, structured, capacity to formalize norms, processes, specifications

• Understanding of IT, capacity to adapt to different interlocutors from IT to Business

• Ability to integrate external regulations and manage and control risks while taking into consideration the quality, Internal controls , Finance & Supply Chain standards

• Strong data integrator with good analytical capabilities and expertise to leverage business data for continuous improvement

• Good management and mastering of costs along the Supply Chain

• Anticipates business activity and acts proactively

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Key Job Responsibilities

• Lead and Define the E2E Demand Driven Agile planning strategy with focus on demand and according to the business unit needs with each cluster and to move from a monthly planning cycle to weekly bucket with O+O mindset.
• Manage the Demand community based in the countries to define their roles and cascade the zone’s priorities.
• Lead the transformation project which is the in-house Ai-ML demand planning tool for SAPMENA Ecommerce D2C . This will require management along with others the business owner, central governance and liaise with all stakeholders of country and zone.

• Contribute to define, write and update planning norms and processes

• Ensure Demand fundamentals are deployed, monitor the results through audits and assessment

• Animate , Educate and Upskill to the O+O strategy for the planning community across the region.

• Ensure service and Global Performance Management and work on optimization to improve anticipation .

• Work closely and hand in with the central teams in NOE for updating Best Practices, trainings and all group tools roll out for the domains of planning and contribute share of voice to Next Gen Planning

• Define and challenge the performance indicators (KPIs) and make recommendations for improvement

• Build the frame of activity and investment in scope(budget, 3 years plan) for countries within the zone.

• Be the gatekeeper for implementation of norms and process in alignment with central operations.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 6 years of strong operational experience preferably in Demand & Supply operations management with exposure to systems & tools.

• Proven leadership capabilities with the ability to manage both direct and indirect matrix resources.

• Proactive self starter and excellent stakeholder management.

• Good Network across Supply chain landscape in business, customers and central teams

• Strong operational excellence, agility, and customer orientation to foster a demand-driven supply chain with service as a priority .

• Highly organized, structured, capacity to formalize norms, processes, specifications

• Understanding of IT, capacity to adapt to different interlocutors from IT to Business

• Ability to integrate external regulations and manage and control risks while taking into consideration the quality, Internal controls , Finance & Supply Chain standards

• Strong data integrator with good analytical capabilities and expertise to leverage business data for continuous improvement

• Good management and mastering of costs along the Supply Chain

• Anticipates business activity and acts proactively

Why explore

• Gain exposure across our global commercial business

• Further sharpen your business partnering skills

• Be part of a group that is safety-driven and values inclusion

• Join an encouraging leadership group committed to your growth and development

• Based in Singapore, a global commercial hub for Rio Tinto

About the role

We are looking for a Principal Advisor, Business Analysis to join our Commercial Business Analysis team in Singapore. This role provides a great opportunity to work with multiple stakeholders and provide advice to the Buy, Sell, and Move teams within the Commercial organization and strategic insights into investment decisions to help shape the future for Rio Tinto.

Reporting to the General Manager, Finance Business Partners & Business Analysis, this role will:

• Provide independent, robust, and high-quality economic evaluation of proposed portfolio-level decisions and investment opportunities, taking into account risks and uncertainties.

• Influence key commercial decisions, including:

  • Sell activities, such as supporting the business case for material sales contracts or new sales strategies.

  • Move activities, such as supporting the business case for material move contracts or new move strategies, including climate-related decisions.

  • Buy activities, supporting the negotiation and execution of centrally managed purchases, such as heavy machinery equipment and fuel.

  • Commercial wide activities, such as evaluating and quantifying the benefit of downstream customer partnerships, including looking through the ESG lens.

• Support Commercial’s review and input into material capital investment decisions by the Group (working with other Business Analysis teams in Product Groups).

• Build and maintain effective financial models to assess and develop business cases to support potential commercial opportunities and strategic initiatives.

• Review submissions to the Commercial Investment Committee.

• Prepare and lead Commercial submissions to the Group Investment and Capital Committees.

About you

To be successfully considered for this role, you will have:

• A deep-seated curiosity and willingness to learn about the business and partner with stakeholders across Commercial and Product Groups.

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field, e.g., Engineering, Business, Finance, or related discipline.

• 10 years+ business analysis and commercial experience in natural resources/manufacturing/other process-driven industries.

• Energetic and driven, and able to work under pressure and meet multiple and competing deadlines.

• Demonstrated skills and/or experience in:

  • Financial evaluations to support investment decisions.

  • Financial modelling with a strong understanding of valuation concepts (e.g., NPV, IRR).

  • Critical thinking and reasoning.

  • Dealing with ambiguous and constantly changing situations.

  • Working in a global business across different geographies and with a variety of teams.

• Strong presentation and communication skills (oral and written) and ability to structure and present complex ideas and information in a simple, articulate, balanced, and persuasive way.

• Commercial negotiations experience and knowledge of commercial and business planning systems.

What we offer

• A work environment where safety is always the number one priority

• A full-time position working directly for Rio Tinto

• A competitive base salary reflective of your skills and experience, with an annual incentive program

• Comprehensive medical benefits, including health insurance for employees and immediate family

• Attractive share ownership plan

• Company provided insurance cover

• Career development & education assistance to further your technical or leadership ambitions

• Leave for all of life’s reasons (vacation/annual, paid parental, sick leave)

Where you will be working

Headquartered in Singapore, and integrated with Rio Tinto’s assets, hubs, and offices globally, our Commercial group works hand-in-hand with our product groups to ensure both the amount and types of products we produce meet our customers’ needs, and manage the trade-off between volumes, quality, cost, and capital expenditure.

Application Deadline: 25 July 2025 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove job postings prior to the stated closing date)

Please note, in order to be successfully considered for this role, you must complete all pre-screening questions.

Rio Tinto does not accept unsolicited CVs or candidate profiles from recruiters or employment agencies. Rio Tinto will not consider or agree to payment of any referral compensation or recruiter fee relating to unsolicited CVs or candidate profiles. Rio Tinto reserves the right to hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to the recruiter or agency. Any unsolicited CVs or candidate profiles, including those submitted to hiring managers, are deemed to be the property of Rio Tinto.”

About Rio Tinto

Rio Tinto is a leading global mining and materials company. We operate in 35 countries where we produce iron ore, copper, aluminium, critical minerals, and other materials needed for the global energy transition and for people, communities, and nations to thrive.

We have been mining for 150 years and operate with knowledge built up across generations and continents. Our purpose is finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs – striving for innovation and continuous improvement to produce materials with low emissions and to the right environmental, social and governance standards. But we can’t do it on our own, so we’re focused on creating partnerships to solve problems, create win-win situations and meet opportunities.

Every Voice Matters

At Rio Tinto, we particularly welcome and encourage applications from Indigenous Peoples, women, the LGBTQIA+ community, mature workers, people with disabilities and people from different cultural backgrounds.

We are committed to an inclusive environment where people feel comfortable to be themselves. We want our people to feel that all voices are heard, all cultures respected and that a variety of perspectives are not only welcome – they are essential to our success. We treat each other fairly and with dignity regardless of race, gender, nationality, ethnic origin, religion, age, sexual orientation or anything else that makes us different.

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Why explore

• Gain exposure across our global commercial business
• Further sharpen your business partnering skills
• Be part of a group that is safety-driven and values inclusion
• Join an encouraging leadership group committed to your growth and development
• Based in Singapore, a global commercial hub for Rio Tinto

About the role

We are looking for a Principal Advisor, Business Analysis to join our Commercial Business Analysis team in Singapore. This role provides a great opportunity to work with multiple stakeholders and provide advice to the Buy, Sell, and Move teams within the Commercial organization and strategic insights into investment decisions to help shape the future for Rio Tinto.

Reporting to the General Manager, Finance Business Partners & Business Analysis, this role will:

• Provide independent, robust, and high-quality economic evaluation of proposed portfolio-level decisions and investment opportunities, taking into account risks and uncertainties.
• Influence key commercial decisions, including:

1. Sell activities, such as supporting the business case for material sales contracts or new sales strategies.
2. Move activities, such as supporting the business case for material move contracts or new move strategies, including climate-related decisions.
3. Buy activities, supporting the negotiation and execution of centrally managed purchases, such as heavy machinery equipment and fuel.
4. Commercial wide activities, such as evaluating and quantifying the benefit of downstream customer partnerships, including looking through the ESG lens.

• Support Commercial’s review and input into material capital investment decisions by the Group (working with other Business Analysis teams in Product Groups).
• Build and maintain effective financial models to assess and develop business cases to support potential commercial opportunities and strategic initiatives.
• Review submissions to the Commercial Investment Committee.
• Prepare and lead Commercial submissions to the Group Investment and Capital Committees

About you

To be successfully considered for this role, you will have:

• A deep-seated curiosity and willingness to learn about the business and partner with stakeholders across Commercial and Product Groups.
• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field, e.g., Engineering, Business, Finance, or related discipline.
• 10 years+ business analysis and commercial experience in natural resources/manufacturing/other process-driven industries.
• Energetic and driven, and able to work under pressure and meet multiple and competing deadlines.
• Demonstrated skills and/or experience in:

1. Financial evaluations to support investment decisions.
2. Financial modelling with a strong understanding of valuation concepts (e.g., NPV, IRR).
3. Critical thinking and reasoning.
4. Dealing with ambiguous and constantly changing situations.
5. Working in a global business across different geographies and with a variety of teams.

• Strong presentation and communication skills (oral and written) and ability to structure and present complex ideas and information in a simple, articulate, balanced, and persuasive way.
• Commercial negotiations experience and knowledge of commercial and business planning systems.

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The Business Analysis Senior Manager is a senior management-level position responsible for liaising between business users and technologists to exchange information in a concise, logical and understandable way in coordination with the Technology team. Specifically, this role is a critical part of the process of managing Finance Operating/Reporting Ledger Implementations and upgrades (globally) as part of DevOps support team. A successful candidate should be able to understand Citi's Finance Operating/Reporting Ledger functionalities and analyze complex business processes in order to determine an IT solution. In addition, there will be a significant level of data analysis and support, work with various stakeholders and support teams as part of the change function of the live ledger.
**Responsibilities:**
+ Supervise a business analytic team supporting one large system or multiple systems with responsibilities including work allocation, budget and planning, performance evaluation, compensation, staffing and other duties as assigned
+ DevOps for Financial Full Suite ledger application - to be able to perform both IT analysis and Operational roles at the same time.
+ Provide expert direction and technical leadership on complex, high-impact projects across all areas of the global Ledger (Full Suite) and in all phases of the development and implementation process, ensuring essential procedures are followed.
+ Work with a wide range of experts and partners from other technology teams and lines of business, including: Operations, Finance, and front office business areas.
+ Responsible for regulatory deliveries and DCRM (Data Concern Remediation Management) solutions & its implementation.
+ Provide evaluative judgment based on analysis of information in complicated and unique situations and contribute to formulation of standards and strategies for own area and other functional areas
+ Has the ability to operate with a limited level of direct supervision.
+ Can exercise independence of judgement and autonomy.
+ Acts as SME to senior stakeholders and /or other team members.
+ Ability to manage global teams.
+ Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating particular consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding Citigroup, its clients and assets, by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, adhering to Policy, applying sound ethical judgment regarding personal behavior, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency, as well as effectively supervise the activity of others and create accountability with those who fail to maintain these standards.
**Qualifications:**
+ 10+ years of relevant experience in finance technology
+ 5+ years of data analysis experience
+ Technical capability, with Ab-initio, Oracle and UNIX technologies, should be able to debug Ab-initio graphs and be able to perform various complex SQL queries.
+ Demonstrated relevant leadership skills
+ Consistently demonstrate clear and concise written and verbal communication
+ Proven interpersonal skills with ability to partner and influence across organizational lines
+ Proven ability of using complex analytical, interpretive and problem-solving techniques
**Education:**
+ Bachelor's degree/University degree or equivalent in computer science, IT or similar engineering
+ Master's degree preferred
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Why explore

• Gain exposure across our global commercial business
• Further sharpen your business partnering skills
• Be part of a group that is safety-driven and values inclusion
• Join an encouraging leadership group committed to your growth and development
• Based in Singapore, a global commercial hub for Rio Tinto

About the role

We are looking for a Principal Advisor, Business Analysis to join our Commercial Business Analysis team in Singapore. This role provides a great opportunity to work with multiple stakeholders and provide advice to the Buy, Sell, and Move teams within the Commercial organization and strategic insights into investment decisions to help shape the future for Rio Tinto.

Reporting to the General Manager, Finance Business Partners & Business Analysis, this role will:

• Provide independent, robust, and high-quality economic evaluation of proposed portfolio-level decisions and investment opportunities, taking into account risks and uncertainties.
• Influence key commercial decisions, including:

1. Sell activities, such as supporting the business case for material sales contracts or new sales strategies.
2. Move activities, such as supporting the business case for material move contracts or new move strategies, including climate-related decisions.
3. Buy activities, supporting the negotiation and execution of centrally managed purchases, such as heavy machinery equipment and fuel.
4. Commercial wide activities, such as evaluating and quantifying the benefit of downstream customer partnerships, including looking through the ESG lens.

• Support Commercial’s review and input into material capital investment decisions by the Group (working with other Business Analysis teams in Product Groups).
• Build and maintain effective financial models to assess and develop business cases to support potential commercial opportunities and strategic initiatives.
• Review submissions to the Commercial Investment Committee.
• Prepare and lead Commercial submissions to the Group Investment and Capital Committees

About you

To be successfully considered for this role, you will have:

• A deep-seated curiosity and willingness to learn about the business and partner with stakeholders across Commercial and Product Groups.
• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field, e.g., Engineering, Business, Finance, or related discipline.
• 10 years+ business analysis and commercial experience in natural resources/manufacturing/other process-driven industries.
• Energetic and driven, and able to work under pressure and meet multiple and competing deadlines.
• Demonstrated skills and/or experience in:

1. Financial evaluations to support investment decisions.
2. Financial modelling with a strong understanding of valuation concepts (e.g., NPV, IRR).
3. Critical thinking and reasoning.
4. Dealing with ambiguous and constantly changing situations.
5. Working in a global business across different geographies and with a variety of teams.

• Strong presentation and communication skills (oral and written) and ability to structure and present complex ideas and information in a simple, articulate, balanced, and persuasive way.
• Commercial negotiations experience and knowledge of commercial and business planning systems.