Global Demand Analyst/Manager

Role & responsibilities:

- Review and validate Sales Forecast per country per market cluster in Blue Yonder and Excel templates for the defined planning period based on:

- Highest impact contributors

- Product group/ product family/ SKU with FC but no sales

- High BIAS

- NPI/EOL, also in Blue Yonder

- Identify incoherent forecasts and potential forecasting mistakes (typo or missing data)

- Review integration errors

- Use and maintain the Demand Planning software as the primary forecasting system tool

- Budget comparison/ budget and financial forecast integration in Blue Yonder

- Coordinate cross-functional research activities to reconcile significant variances and refine the forecast model to reflect updated sales and marketing assumptions

- Review historical sales trends, research demand drivers, prepare forecast data, develop statistical forecast models, and evaluate forecast results

- Participate in demand reviews

- Interact and find consensus with sales, marketing, and product management to understand demand forecast drivers ensuring accurate demand forecast

- Provide detailed KPI analysis to markets and business and make suggestions for improvement

- Improve statistical forecast in priority order in Blue Yonder

- Identify and correct statistical forecast for DFUs showing incoherent data in Blue Yonder

- Identify and correct statistical forecast parameters in Blue Yonder for low frequency DFUs including settings as history coverage/ seasonality/ mean adjustment

- Review and report anomalies in Blue Yonder and follow up with relevant function

Preferred candidate profile:

- Close co-operation with the Global Demand Planner and S&OP team supporting activities where necessary