Head of Business Planning & SCM (Native Korean speaker)

Position Summary Role and Responsibilities 1. 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. 2. 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. 3. 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. 4. 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. 5. 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. 6. 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. 7. 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. * Please visit Samsung membership to see Privacy Policy, which defaults according to your location. You can change Country/Language at the bottom of the page. If you are European Economic Resident, please click here .