Commercial Operations Manager
BD
- Kuala Lumpur
- Tetap
- Sepenuh masa
The Commercial Operations Manager is part of the commercial team in driving growth across the various business units. The role provides accurate and timely commercial, and operations support during the entire sales and operations cycle to ensure key corporate objectives are met. The Commercial Operations Manager must also understand and be ready to respond to the market changing environment.Job DescriptionJOB TITLECommercial Operations Manager, MalaysiaLOCATION AND DEPARTMENTKuala Lumpur, Malaysia (Solid to Country GM & Dotted to SCM Director)PURPOSE OF JOBThe Commercial Operations Manager is part of the commercial team in driving growth across the various business units. The role provides accurate and timely commercial, and operations support during the entire sales and operations cycle to ensure key corporate objectives are met. The Commercial Operations Manager must also understand and be ready to respond to the market changing environment.JOB FUNCTION
- Ensure standardized S&OP process across all BD businesses and distributors. Help achieve distributor sales target /financial reconciliation and keep healthy channel inventory
- Partner with SEA planning to directly work with Country and Business Leaders, Distributors and relevant stakeholders to establish (using Distributor in-market and inventory data) accurate demand forecasting/planning.
- Attend and ensure pre-consensus meetings are conducted according to agenda and with high quality outputs
- Analyze and provide comments to monthly country performance on In-Market Sales, Trade Sales, and Future Days’ Sales (FDS) inventory level across all businesses.
- Monitor and escalate inventory risks for appropriate action.
- Work closely with business teams to ensure successful implementation of corporate-level sales operation strategy, projects, and processes.
- Support businesses to streamline and optimize sales and operations processes with distributors.
- Drive the achievement of distributor KPIs by functioning as key contact person to distributors.
- Review and approve distributor charges/claims as per distributor agreement, e.g. excess pallet, urgent requests to end-customers, samples etc.
- Accountable for the in-market sales tool, Salesforce.com, ensuring the integrity of the data always, implementation of system changes and modifications.
- Process owner for production of sales performance reports and incentives calculation, validation and approval routing.
- New product introduction and launch planning with cross-functional stakeholders.
- Analyze internal business trends and processes to enable Country General Manager to address or improve them.
- Perform other tasks that may be assigned from time to time.
- Distributor Management
- Monitor Distributor performance using Dashboard
- Review Distributor Channel Inventory and IMS trends
- Participate in review of Distributor Planning/Collaboration & Country S&OP (where applicable)
- Participate in annual Distributor evaluation (where applicable)-
- Continuous improvement: Process, System and People
- Performs any other tasks and key projects as assigned
- Identify gaps, spot problems, diagnosis of the issues, evaluating alternatives.
- Implement remedial measures both short term & long-term
- Quick response in time, Right Solution, Communication
- Process Effectiveness
- Customer Focus
- Drive for results
- Continuous & Versatile Learning
- Demand Planning & Analysis
- Customer & Market knowledge
- Sales & Operational Planning
- CPFR
- Distributor Management
- Inventory Management
- Planning / Forecasting Techniques
- Good Distribution Practice for Medical Devices (GDPMDS)
- Sarbanes Oxley (SOX)
- SAP
- APO
- BW
- Continuous Improvement Processes and Tools
- BI Tool ( eg. Qliksense, Power BI…)