Demand Planning Analyst

The Supply Chain Planning Operations organization (SCPO) is searching for a Demand Planning Analyst. This role directly reports under the SCPO Demand Planning Director.

The Demand Planning Analyst is responsible for managing, optimizing, and executing the weekly and long-term demand planning processes.This role ensures data integrity, coordinates cross-functionally to build consensus forecasts, and balances supply-demand constraints to maximize margin and inventory utilization. The ideal candidate possesses strong analytical skills, a keen eye for data governance, and the experience to turn complex market signals into a consumable demand plan.

• →Data Governance and Master Data: Proactively identify, address, and resolve data issues within demand hierarchies and demand master data to ensure a single source of truth.
• →Execution and Escalation Management: Review and manage the weekly customer Return-to-Forecast (RTF) process and directly address/resolve customer escalations.
• →Demand Plan Optimization: Collaborate with Business Unit (BU) Forecasters, Regional Demand Leads, and Accounts to develop a comprehensive Demand Plan.
• →Optimize the plan for maximum margin and the best use of supply/inventory capabilities.
• →Supply and Demand Alignment: Review proration, consumption, and disaggregation to ensure the demand plan at the lowest level is entirely consumable by the supply chain execution teams.
• →Continuous Monitoring: Review Backlog, Gross Billings, Customer Demand, and Sales Forecasts continuously to make data-driven changes to the weekly demand plan. When applicable, manage and update upper-case/lower-case demand variations.
• →Constrained Planning (S and OP Horizon): Develop and recommend the Constrained Demand Plan, incorporating Supply Plans, S and OP Executive decisions, and Business Management Group (BMG) direction on allocation strategies.
• →Allocation Facilitation: Facilitate critical allocation decisions with the Supply Management Group (SMG) when market demand exceeds available supply.
• →S and OP / S and OE Harmonization: Act as the bridge between execution and strategy, ensuring that Sales and Operations Execution (S and OE) and Sales and Operations.
• →Planning (S and OP) demand plans are completely harmonized.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with high attention to detail.
• Excellent communication skills to collaborate effectively across regional and business unit teams.

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