LOCATION: Shanghai

REPORTS TO: Planning Manager

DIRECT REPORTS: NA

Company Background: 

Ingredion is a Fortune 500 provider of ingredient solutions that helps nourish, comfort, sustain, and delight people around the world. Ingredion’s wide range of ingredient solutions is strategically designed to address changing consumer trends and preferences. Our specialty portfolio includes starch-based texturizers, clean and simple ingredients, plant-based proteins, sugar reduction and specialty sweeteners, and food systems. Our innovative ingredient solutions are used by consumers in everyday products, from foods and beverages to paper and pharmaceuticals. And we do it all in a planet-friendly sustainable manner.

The Planner takes end to end ownership of demand planning for assigned product portfolio. Generate consensus SKU-level demand forecasts, align cross-functional stakeholders, and drive S&OP process to improve forecast accuracy, balance customer-service level and inventory health, and mitigate supply-demand mismatch risks.

This role also performs partial supply-related activities: translating validated demand into supply plans, scheduling production, tracking plan performance and engaging local plants. It also supports long-term capacity analysis to secure resources, balancing service level, inventory cost and supply constraints.

Core Responsibilities:

Demand Planning

• Develop baseline statistical forecast leveraging sales history, seasonality & promotion plan

• Consolidate input from commercial team to build SKU‑level short‑/mid‑/long‑term consensus demand plan and accurately reflect it in JDA

• Track forecast accuracy & forecast bias, perform root cause analysis for large variances and drive improvement actions 

• Organize the monthly local sign-off meeting and participate in APAC affiliate demand review meeting to highlight demand risks and upside opportunities 

• Validate and collect planning‑related master‑data in JDA timely (customer groups, DFU, etc.)

Supply responsibility

Translate consensus demand into feasible supply plan, release production plan to local plant, follow up production execution status, escalate production delay risk timely 

• Monitor the inventory of related products; identify excess, slow‑moving & obsolete stock, propose mitigation actions

• Manage local supply‑demand gap; support allocation decision when plant capacity is constrained

Cross‑functional Collaboration & Reporting

• Closely align with sales, customer service, production, quality, procurement, logistics, finance and Global /APAC stakeholders

• Manage regular KPI: forecast accuracy, SAP/JDA utilization& accuracy, inventory level, etc.

Qualified candidates will have:

Mandatory requirements: 

Qualifications - Bachelor’s degree required as a minimum.

Language – fluent in both English and Mandarin

Functional Excellence - 2+ years supply chain planning experience in food ingredient / FMCG / manufacturing. Solid demand-planning background; hands-on local plant supply coordination experience is preferred

Analytical Ability -Strong data-driven analytical mindset. Proficient in advanced Excel for large-scale dataset manipulation and system data cleansing. Hands-on exposure to enterprise planning tools such as SAP/JDA is highly preferred 

Conflict Management – Excellent cross-team communication & negotiation skills. Ability to embrace conflict and find positive solutions.

Desirable requirements

Strong sense of ownership and urgency to achieve desired results.

Detail oriented and extreme accuracy.

Open minded with a strong desire to make problems visible to facilitate continuous improvement.