Regional Demand Manager, APAC

About the role

Abbott is hiring a Regional Demand Planning Manager for the Asia Pacific region, based in Singapore. The role leads the demand planning process across APAC, ensuring high-quality, fact-based forecasts that support commercial decisions, supply planning, inventory management and business performance. It works closely with country commercial teams, Finance, Marketing, Supply Chain and Global Operations.

Key responsibilities

• Lead the APAC demand planning cycle across markets and product portfolios.
• Consolidate and critically review country forecasts, ensuring changes are backed by clear assumptions, data and business drivers.
• Monitor forecast accuracy and bias, run root-cause analysis on significant variances and drive corrective actions.
• Identify demand trends, risks and opportunities and share insights with regional leadership.
• Develop scenarios to support decisions when market or supply conditions change.
• Build a deep understanding of market dynamics, customers, tenders, competition, product lifecycle and commercial strategy.
• Partner with country teams to turn market intelligence and sales activity into demand implications, and challenge forecasts that conflict with data or business fundamentals.
• Align demand, financial, inventory and supply plans with Finance, Marketing, Supply Chain and Operations.
• Lead the regional demand review and represent APAC in the global Demand Planning review process.
• Establish consistent demand planning standards and governance across APAC, coach stakeholders on forecasting and best practices, and drive continuous improvement in processes, tools, reporting and data visibility.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in supply chain, Business, Finance, Engineering, Analytics or a related discipline.
• 7-10+ years of relevant experience in demand planning, S&OP/IBP, supply chain planning, commercial planning or business analytics.
• Regional or multi-country planning experience strongly preferred.
• Strong analytical ability combined with demonstrated commercial understanding.
• Healthcare, diagnostics, medical device, pharmaceutical or other complex multi-market industry experience is advantageous.

Required skills

• Advanced Excel skills.
• Power BI or similar analytics experience preferred.

The role involves travel of about 20% of the time and follows a standard work shift. Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer.