Supply Demand Management
Apple· Operations and Supply Chain
ShanghaiFull-timePosted 5mo ago
About the role
Apple China team acts as the voice of Apple’s worldwide customers to production and operations teams in China, developing and executing end-to-end product demand and supply plans across all channels in over 80 countries for current or future product lines across multiple Apple product families.
Responsibilities
- Forecast demand, inventory, and multi-channel sell-through analysis. Generate and execute weekly and quarterly supply plans that meet Apple’s financial objective. Evaluate risks. Plan and implement contingency plans to mitigate risks.
- Define the launch strategy including launch target and execution plan of new product introductions and balancing the New Product Introduction (NPI) end-to-end daily planning to ensure smooth product transitions.
- Partner with Apple Operation team on OEM site strategy development and factory capacity requirements based on demand projections, call out the risks and provide prioritization during constraint.
- Partner with global procurement teams to allocate constrained components to secure customer commits under optimized allocation.
- Partner with OEM and Apple Operations / Logistics teams to ensure a detailed execution plan to serve an outstanding customer experience.
- Present product updates and recommended actions to Asia Procurement Operations executive management team on a weekly basis.
- Identify improvement opportunities in the product planning process, marshal resources, and drive projects to completion.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree or Equivalent.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities. Highly proficient in MS Excel.
- Excellent communication skills in English, both written and verbal, capable of building and nurturing positive relationships with both internal and external partners.
- Prior experience in supply chain or in fields that requires quantitative analysis.
- Skilled in communicating complex analytics, making data-driven insights accessible and actionable.
- Demonstrate initiative, adaptability and problem-solving skills in a changing and dynamic environment.
- Have experiences in predictive and optimization modelling (e.g., Solver, AI/ML), data visualization (e.g., Tableau) or programming (e.g., SQL, Python) is preferred.
- A strong team collaborator and communicator.
Skills
Required:MS ExcelEnglish communication
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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