Key job responsibilities-
- Build demand planning models and provide risk analysis based on “what if” scenarios to drive strategic decisions and publish a consensus financial forecast.
- Support Supply planning with co-ordination of Suppliers and Frieght forwarders, PO Creation and Fright Invoice processing
- Act as a key contributor in demand reviews, sharing data driven alternatives to optimize the business in clear and succinct written format for both short and long term demand planning.
- Review historical sales trends, research demand drivers, validate sales inputs, develop statistical forecast models, and evaluate forecast results for both tops down and bottoms up planning.
- Work closely with channel and regional owners to understand the nuances of each unique sales channel and reconcile significant variances, refine forecasts to reflect updated sales and marketing strategies, and reduce forecast model variance across channels.
- Dive deep with product management, sales channel owners, supply planning, marketing, and finance to understand demand forecast drivers and the downstream impacts of forecast changes.
- Engage with channel teams to collaborate on forecasting, and ensure that current and accurate information is used for demand forecasts through both formalized and ad hoc processes and reporting.
- Communicate ideas concisely to a wide variety of stakeholders for purposes ranging from informative to financial approval from executives.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS-
- 5+ years of Experience in Demand Planning
- Bachelor's degree
- Experience working with complex data sets
- Experience communicating results to senior leadership
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS-
- Knowledge of statistics or other analytical techniques
- Experience with SQL, Python, AI, Data science
