This position helps establish/streamline policies, procedures and data mining to support best practices in forecasting, reporting, and communications. A team member in this role will navigate a complex data environment and leverage different techniques, such as advanced statistical skills, to identify and introduce new inputs into department forecasting models and/or research business issues to identify potential problems that need to be raised to the S&OP community. This may include the establishment of new data sources as well as deep dive analysis of a specific topic or area of concern.

Principal duties and Responsibilities -

• Deliver Demand planning, Forecast numbers on a fixed cadence(Weekly, daily, monthly or half yearly)
• Drive automation to allow for faster and more informed decisions, leading to improved KPIs.
• Focus on standardization and efficient distribution of forecast reports to support integrated planning framework.
• Enable multiple scenarios and simulations for what-if planning and analysis in specific supply chain areas.
• Develop exception report(s) for automatic detection of exceptions to plan, as well as processes to address the exceptions within defined SLAs.
• Possess Business context to understand data sources and navigate through Organization’s technological roadmap.
• Utilize data to guide future work, build recommendations, and drive innovation.
• Monitor Forecast accuracy and customer service KPI’s (Error, Bias and Lag Analysis).
• Provide deep dive analysis of red and yellow KPIs and facilitate resolution and action plans for the issues.
• Understand End-To-End supply chain network and solve real world problems with regards to Capacity Planning within the network.
• A strong passion for data driven decision-making and an ability to communicate persuasively using data and analytics

Minimum Requirements -

• 4 years of experience in forecasting, inventory management, demand planning and Supply Planning.
• SQL, R  or Python
• Prior experience working in and/or supporting Demand planning, Forecasting, Sales and Operations Planning, Inventory management and Storage capacity planning.
• High competency in Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Project, and PowerPoint.
• Dashboard tools such as Microsoft Power BI/Tableau/Altryx etc.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Excellent problem solving and project management skills

Preferred Requirements -

• Prior experience working in and/or supporting Forecasting, Sales and Operations Planning, Inventory management and Storage capacity planning.
• Familiarity and experience with programming in a few of the following -
  • Spark, SAS, Shell Script, DOMO.
• Knowledge of advanced statistics.