Sr Supply Planning Analyst
Company: Wells Enterprises (a Ferrero Company)
Functional Area: Supply Chain & Logistics
The Role
The Sr. Supply Planning role will be responsible for coordinating and leading cross-functional reviews when customer fulfillment prioritizations are required. Able to consume and analyze large, complex data and process to actionable insights for key stakeholders.
What You’ll Do
- Ability to analyze large complex information and able to create dashboards and reporting to provide actionable insights for stakeholders.
- Responsible for review of customer orders daily and prioritize the available inventory according to service priorities and communicate decisions and supply constraints to Customer Service, Sales, and key stakeholders.
- Support S&OP processes by providing priority updates and inventory risk assessments. Analyze order fulfillment performance, backorders, fill rates, and inventory utilization to identify trends and recommend improvements.
- Prepare and present analysis at various IBP meetings; explaining financial variances to forecast, plan, budget, as well as other ad-hoc scenario analysis as requested.
- Support and pricing by partnering with Finance and evaluating the financial impact of changes in costs, labor, and overhead.
- Be curious with strong problem-solving skills. Ability to work independently and with ambiguity.
- Responsible for understanding and utilizing both internal and external data sources to ensure an accurate forecast (i.e. Arkieva, Llamasoft, Nielsen, and IRI).
What You’ll Bring
Bachelor's degree preferred in business, math/statistics, finance/accounting.
5-7 years of experience in a demand planning role preferably in a CPG environment. 1-3 years of experience with S&OP. Background with demand planning software. Prefer experience with partnering with large retail accounts in collaborative demand planning or CPFR.
- Knowledge Solid knowledge of overall business planning processes to ensure decisions are based on being able to see the big picture of supporting company goals & objectives.
- Skills – Solid analytical and problem-solving skills, strong communication skills both verbal & written, able to effectively use Excel using data from various sources, strong listening skills & comfortable interfacing with customers & sales teams Possesses function and technical skills to do the job at a high level of accomplishment, possesses excellent communication skills.
- Abilities – The ability to show patience in high tension situations, able to deal with concepts and complexity comfortably and the ability to focus on delta.
Supervisory Scope – Reports to Director of Demand Planning; direct reports – NA; Indirect Reports – N/A.
Wells Enterprises is an EEO/AA employer M/F/Vet/Dis
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