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Senior Analyst, Demand Planning
The Sr. Analyst, Demand Planning within the Global Demand Center of Excellence (COE) is responsible for developing, analyzing, and modeling business or market forecast trends, insights, gaps, KPIs, opportunities and risks in forecast projections to ensure a high-quality demand plan for the organization. The Lead Analyst will focus on enabling high quality, predictability, and reliability of the demand forecast for the assigned business unit(s) and/or regional markets. This role will serve as the primary liaison between the Demand Center of Excellence and the business demand planners and IBP analysts – building trust and credibility through transparent communication, proactive problem-solving, and consistently delivering results. The Lead Analyst will be expected to collaborate with the in-country or region demand planning market experts to improve and optimize key brands and products as required. This role will also maximize system capability by partnering across the Demand COE and with enterprise systems and technology experts to drive system governance and end user training. This role will also be responsible for developing and analyzing regional forecast trends and identified gaps or risks in the demand plan to drive the right collaboration with business planners and only make value-added adjustments.
The Senior Analyst must have strong skills in quantitative, analytical and organizational skills with hands-on forecasting and statistical modeling experience. This role must be capable of being a thought leader, show creativity and efficiency in solving problems, and appropriately communicate and escalate issues as needed.
This role requires someone who can understand large volumes of data, leverage statistical modelling, advanced data analysis, detecting patterns in data, and build an accurate and suitable forecast for the business.
What you will do:
- Create and maintain high quality statistical demand forecasts for the region using the enterprise demand planning system
- Develop and continuously improve statistical forecast quality and build strong relationships with regional / in-country demand planning market experts
- Outline clear recommendations on statistical excellence in forecast vs. value-add intelligence for the regional planning teams
- Understand the link between plan and actuals, analyze variations, and partner with the business to define future growth plans
- Perform an analytical review of performance vs. budgets and forecasts with recommendations of improvements going forward
- Provide simulation and scenario planning capabilities to the regional planning teams
- Develop risk analysis based on forecast accuracy and bias in the forecast signal
- Design analytical capability to support optimization needs across the supply chain in relation to demand planning and forecasting
- Preparing internal management reports for executive leadership and supporting their decision making
What you need:
- Bachelor's or master's degree in business/engineering/supply chain management/computer science
- 3 to 5 years of working experience in forecasting & planning
- Strong command of demand planning systems (e.g., SAP IBP, Oracle, or similar); SQL experience
- Experience in dashboard creation using Excel or Power BI
- Ability to work with large datasets (big data)
- Knowledge of R or Python is a plus
- Working knowledge of applying statistical principles to improve results
- Analytics / Data Science certifications preferred
