Demand Planning Analyst

Job Description

REQUIREMENTS

• Experience building bottoms-up forecasts (strongly preferred)
• Experience with Modus, SAP IBP, Logility, o9, Blue Yonder, or other demand planning software (strongly preferred)
• Strong commercial acumen, preferably in CPG, grocery, or coffee (strongly preferred)
• Experience with grocery forecasting and/or trade spend (strongly preferred)
• Experience with UNFI and KeHE (preferred)
• Experience working with a trade promotion management or trade spend management tool (preferred)
• Experience navigating and building reports via SPINS and Nielsen (preferred)
• Deep knowledge of Google Sheets: pivot tables and VLOOKUPS are your baseline
• Self-motivation to complete required work autonomously while proactively optimizing systems and processes
• Strong attention to detail and ability to manage multiple deadlines and deliverables
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to identify issues, determine root cause, and drive solutions
• Ability to collaborate cross-functionally and engage the right stakeholders to keep work moving
• Ability to create ad hoc reporting and demand-planning models
• Demonstrated ability to manage a recurring planning calendar, meet deadlines consistently, and proactively follow up to keep deliverables moving.

RESPONSIBILITES

Demand Planning, Forecasting & Reporting

• Become the internal expert on our demand and trade forecasting tool, Modus, including maintaining and inputting all sales & trade forecasting data, while owning all system updates and outputs to create monthly, quarterly and annual forecasts.
• Participate in weekly sales updates to identify revenue gaps and opportunities that need to be reflected in forecasts and addressed by sales teams.
• Lead monthly forecast review meetings with each sales lead to amend customer forecasts and identify sales gaps; keeping teams on track and accountable to meeting agendas.
• Own the monthly Demand Review process, including preparation of reporting tools, facilitation of forecast review meetings, documentation of agreed forecast changes, and publication of the Rolling Latest Estimate (LE).
• Build and distribute Retailer Forecast Performance, Customer DC Forecast Performance, Pipeline Review and Rolling LE reports in support of the monthly S&OP process.
• Build and distribute all sales reports, continually seeking system or output improvements that better enable the sales team.
• Manage customer and consumption-data portals (ie, SPINS, Nielsen) to update sales reporting files, tools and platforms.
• Update pipeline reporting tools via the CRM platform.
• Own weekly Modus actuals uploads, invalid connection management, forecast snapshots, and master data monitoring

Trade Analysis

• Monthly comparisons of On-Premise distributor chargebacks against forecast, making dynamic system updates to improve customer-investment planning accuracy.
• Enable the team to better utilize customer-investment budgets by monitoring and tracking distributor spend.
• Support PMAT and customer-investment forecasting by ensuring approved investments are accurately reflected within Modus and the demand plan.
• Maintain promotion, trade-spend, and customer-investment forecasting inputs within Modus.
• Support revenue planning and trade promotion planning by incorporating promotional activity, trade spend and customer investment assumptions into the demand plan.
• Participate in regular meetings with our external trade management partner to identify gaps and optimization opportunities within the trade forecast.

Sales Enablement

• Support Sales, Operations and Finance teams through the monthly S&OP process by ensuring forecasts, pipeline reporting, promotional plans and demand assumptions are accurately maintained and communicated.
• Serve as the primary administrator for forecasting workflows, reporting files, and forecast governance processes.

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