Forecasting Analyst
Forecasting Analyst
Employer Active
Job Alert
You will be updated with latest job alerts via email
Share
Job Alert
You will be updated with latest job alerts via email
Not Disclosed
Salary Not Disclosed
1 Vacancy
Job Description
This position is responsible for maintaining the monthly demand planning process (including both statistical and consensus / collaborative forecasting approaches). This individual will monitor and update the finished goods forecast process data. This person contributes to the crossfunctional inventory planning and customer demand review processes.
Responsibilities:
- Validate demand data from multiple sources.
- Develop and maintain a monthly forecast for all finished goods parts using order and shipment history customer point of sale data market intelligence and industry trends to inform the projected demand.
- Contribute to the monthly collaborative demand review as part of the S&OP process.
- Work with sales marketing and product management to understand product life cycles demand patterns and short medium and longterm forecasts.
- Analyze and develop insights on data from a customer point of sales data systems and internal ordermanagement systems.
- Contribute to continuous improvement efforts to advance the demand planning and forecasting process capabilities.
- Maintain forecast vs. actual history data by customer product family channel geography and SKU.
Qualifications:
Competencies
- Knowledge and experience with enterprise planning software (e.g. SAP JDA Oracle etc.
- Experience using and interacting with MRP systems.
- Experience with forecasting methodologies techniques and approaches (e.g. moving averages exponential smoothing holtwinters boxjenkins discrete probability etc..
- Detailoriented and ability to organize work activities in highly ambiguous situations.
- Strong MS Office skills (i.e. Excel and Access).
- Strong problemidentification and analytical skills.
- Experience with process management skills.
- Actionoriented.
Education/Experience
- Undergraduate degree in mathematics supply chain or engineering required.
- Relevant industry experience in the automotive or aftermarket parts business.
- 26 years of supply chain planning experience in the areas of S&O
Required Experience:
IC
Employment Type
Full Time
