About Role:

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.

PRIMARY FUNCTION

As part of your daily deliverables, you will be expected to:

• Lead assignments and participate in projects for S&OP function.

• Determine approach to work, and course correct based on changing objectives / check-ins.

• Requires in-depth knowledge of business function and upstream/downstream impact of work to related job families.

• Effective communication with peers and partners

• Provides business specific coaching & mentoring to others in the department or immediate team.

You will be tasked with Demand planning, publishing forecast on a fixed cadence (Weekly, Daily or monthly) and drive automation to allow for faster and more informed decisions, leading to improved KPIs. Driving and achieving business goals through collaboration with MPLS counterparts and your leader will be key to this role.

Principal duties and Responsibilities -

• Work through ambiguity with limited / minimal global direction and support

• Experience in driving metrics driven solutions and draw conclusions using data

• Focus on standardization and efficient distribution of forecast reports to support integrated planning framework.

• 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.

• A strong passion for data driven decision-making and an ability to communicate persuasively using data and analytics

• Managing operations: Ownership of business and operational metric for the team, weekly recaps and work allocation in the team. You will be also tasked with driving the business review meeting in close collaboration with your leader.

• Communication:  Ensure timely and proactive communication with key stakeholders

• Mentoring and Onboarding: As subject matter experts, train and mentor new team members.

• Special Projects/Pilots: Participate in cross functional and other special projects impacting business strategies.

Minimum Requirements -

• 4 years of experience in forecasting, inventory management, demand planning and Supply Planning.

• Must have experience in SQL, R  or Python

• Knowledge of advanced statistics preferred

• 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 Greenfield, Microsoft Power BI/Tableau.

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.

• Excellent problem solving and project management skills