The Forecasting Specialist is responsible for all forecasting, demand planning, and revenue attainment activities associated with customers and products.
Monday-Friday 8:00am-5:00pm
$75,000-$85,000/year + Benefits
Responsibilities:
Create and maintain forecast models for their product line and/or customers, incorporating business intelligence and forecast information gathered from sales, marketing, finance, retailer replenishment analysts, and other sources.
Have sole ownership of all demand planning activities and is the integration point into the sales and commercial organization.
Lead the cadence and dialogue for their respective customers and products with key counterparts in Sales and Marketing.
Manage the aggregation of the demand planning process across items, product lines, and regions producing a rolling estimate of unconstrained future demand in units.
Produce forecasting data with multiple time horizons as part of a demand planning function.
Review historical sales trends, research demand drivers, prepare forecast data, develop statistical forecast models, and evaluate forecast results.
Partner with key parties to gather forecast inputs (building blocks) based on functional expertise. Influence and drive alignment with Marketing, Sales, Customers and Finance to create new product launch forecasts.
Coordinate cross-functional research activities to reconcile significant variances and refine the forecast model to reflect updated sales and marketing assumptions.
Monitor & measure performance vs. the forecast throughout the month identifying any key shifts or trends.
Maintain & develop metrics & key performance indicators (KPI’s)
Analyze forecast variation/deviation with the goal to minimize service issues and prevent the build of excess & obsolete inventory.
Data integration from forecasting software to MRP software
Use and maintain the Demand Planning software as the primary forecasting system tool.
Maintain planning parameters within MRP software.
Provide operational support for order allocation & fulfillment during key fiscal deadlines: period, quarter, and year-end.
Qualifications:
5+ years of experience in forecasting, demand planning, sales analysis or supply chain
Proficiency in forecast/MRP software such as Q80 or Atlas
Experience creating and analyzing forecasts
Strong Excel skills
