Job Summary:

• Run relevant reports to help identify and react to significant deviations of orders from the demand plan, amending the forecast accordingly
• Improve demand and inventory management methods to attain high forecast accuracy.
• Study trends and adjust forecasts as necessary.
• Monitor newly stocked materials against the initial forecast and adjust if necessary.
• Review requests from Purchasing and Sales regarding the forecast and adjust accordingly. 
• Examine exception reporting and adjust forecasts accordingly.
• Respond to vendor inquiries regarding monthly forecast extracts.
• Publish daily Buying Spreadsheet for newly stocked materials.
• Perform lead time adjustments, buyer changes, and maintain material minimums.
• Ensure that Master Data Settings (MRP) are correct in SAP.
• Keep the manager informed of issues within the area of assigned responsibility and escalate issues beyond the scope of authority to the appropriate parties.

Skills on Resume: 

• Demand planning (Hard Skills)
• Inventory management (Hard Skills)
• Trend analysis (Hard Skills)
• Forecast adjustment (Hard Skills)
• Exception reporting (Hard Skills)
• SAP proficiency (Hard Skills)
• Vendor communication (Soft Skills)
• Data publishing (Hard Skills)

Job Summary:

• Responsible for the daily analysis and execution of forecasts for all business channels
• Create future forecasts for vendors to plan production
• Develop forecast strategies for special events, seasonal items, and new item transitions
• Identify, analyze, interpret and present trends or patterns in complex data sets by using Excel, SQL, Python, Tableau or similar.
• Review forecasts, sales trends and advertising strategies to purchase and maintain appropriate inventory levels
• Collaborate with other key departments to understand strategic directions and adjust forecasting inventory levels
• Develop and utilize key management reports to monitor and identify areas of concern and areas where strategies are working well
• Communicate regularly with multiple departments within the organization to align key strategies and identify and resolve supply chain issues
• Guide and influence team members with adaptation to new tooling, models and reporting.
• Engage in continuous improvement initiatives

Skills on Resume: 

• Forecast analysis (Hard Skills)
• Data analytics (Hard Skills)
• Technical proficiency (Hard Skills)
• Inventory management (Hard Skills)
• Strategic collaboration (Soft Skills)
• Report development (Hard Skills)
• Interdepartmental communication (Soft Skills)
• Continuous improvement (Soft Skills)

Job Summary:

• Coordinate projects and initiatives to improve Brand Awareness, Consideration, and Clarity.
• Manage inventory levels at the distribution centers on all product categories
• Provide executive-level updates on inventory management.
• Maintain optimal in-stock capacity levels based on sales and financial goals.
• Forecast inventory levels.
• Proactively identify needs and take initiative to accomplish
• Create complex Excel reports from multiple data sources, using macros, pivots, graphs, and queries.
• Design reports and dashboards for consumption by the business
• Oversees the development for production.
• Perform pro forma modeling and ad hoc analyses

Skills on Resume: 

• Project coordination (Soft Skills)
• Inventory management (Hard Skills)
• Executive reporting (Soft Skills)
• Sales forecasting (Hard Skills)
• Initiative taking (Soft Skills)
• Advanced Excel (Hard Skills)
• Report design (Hard Skills)
• Pro forma modeling (Hard Skills)

Job Summary:

• Perform deep dive analyses into specific issues
• Ensure BI tools are fully leveraged to provide the insights needed to drive performance. 
• Interface closely with technology partners to manage analytical environment and acquire data sets
• Use quantitative and qualitative methodologies to draw insights and support the continuous improvement of the business.
• Ensure that appropriate data-driven reports and customer behavior insight continuously flow to management to help improve quality, reduce cost, enhance the guest experience, and deliver continued growth.
• Analyze and communicate the effectiveness of new initiatives
• Draw insights and make performance improvement recommendations based on the data sources
• Analyze initiatives and events utilizing transaction-level data
• Generate cross-functional plans to maintain optimal inventory levels at the distribution centers.
• Manage end of life cycle of discontinued, non-go-forward assortment and clearance products with cross-functional teams.
• Work with production planners, retail planners, merchants, distribution centers and vendors to monitor and optimize inventory levels.

Skills on Resume: 

• Deep dive analysis (Hard Skills)
• BI tool utilization (Hard Skills)
• Data management (Hard Skills)
• Quantitative analysis (Hard Skills)
• Report generation (Hard Skills)
• Performance evaluation (Hard Skills)
• Cross-functional planning (Soft Skills)
• Inventory optimization (Hard Skills)

Job Summary:

• Active user of short-term forecast process that meets commercial, financial, and manufacturing planning requirements
• User of STF process files which are primarily in excel. 
• Excel processes include formula writing, data linking, and power pivots. 
• Moderate to advanced excel skills are necessary in this role. 
• Work includes STF model maintenance and ensuring STF model accuracy.
• Includes collection, consolidation, and analysis of forecast
• Participates in all regional and global STF meetings
• Supports the analysis for weekly business update (ie weekly expected sales report)
• Supports the data population and accuracy of the monthly STF presentation
• Maintains the global access and distribution lists for STF publications
• Proposes, coordinates, and maintains the STF calendar and meetings Projects
• Supporting the implementation of forecast model and process improvements and changes associated with new product, customers, manufacturing locations, or changing business requirements.

Skills on Resume: 

• Excel proficiency (Hard Skills)
• Forecast analysis (Hard Skills)
• Data consolidation (Hard Skills)
• STF model management (Hard Skills)
• Meeting participation (Soft Skills)
• Report preparation (Hard Skills)
• Process improvement (Hard Skills)
• Calendar management (Soft Skills)

Job Summary:

• Represent the forecasting and replenishment business unit when reporting out to leaders in the organization (including merchants, senior managers, and district managers)
• Coordinate and align the forecasting and replenishment business unit to hit company objectives
• Identify high, medium and low sellers and update forecasting & replenishment parameters accordingly.
• Maintain SAP forecasting and replenishment parameters
• Identify process improvement opportunities and recommend solutions.
• Provide SAP Super user expertise.
• Provide input to ensure that chains are in balance between volume and value
• Support and develop the supply chain analytic capabilities from a financial perspective
• Ensure that we have the right KPI’s and ensure that they are available
• Build and update various presentations
• Support projects both at the Performance unit and the Group level

Skills on Resume: 

• Stakeholder reporting (Soft Skills)
• Forecast coordination (Soft Skills)
• SAP management (Hard Skills)
• Process improvement (Hard Skills)
• SAP expertise (Hard Skills)
• Supply chain analytics (Hard Skills)
• KPI management (Hard Skills)
• Presentation development (Hard Skills)

Job Summary:

• Reviewing monthly actuals with the different budget owners, spending versus budget position, and providing insight into any spending anomalies or forecast issues.
• Creating and consolidating forecast scenarios for the budget owners and rolling it up to the CFO
• Process owner for the delivery of timely and accurate quarterly and annual budgets
• Collaborate with Managers to enable the delivery of company's financial commitments
• Support actuals analysis with Budget Owners and aggregate results for the Executive Team
• Populate various financial models and develop ad hoc reports to enable analysis needed to understand anticipated costs and enable decision making
• Assist CFO with data analysis, benchmarking activities, ad hoc requests, etc.
• Site owner for key processes such as Finance internal controls, cost center/internal order maintenance, reserves, benefits, among others
• Grow and develop the organization’s forecasting and planning capability
• Spearheading the annual and quarterly budgeting and forecasting processes
• Producing Weekly/Monthly/Quarterly reports, which include key metrics, financial results, and variance reporting

Skills on Resume: 

• Financial forecasting (Hard Skills)
• Budget management (Hard Skills)
• Financial collaboration (Soft Skills)
• Financial modeling (Hard Skills)
• Data analysis (Hard Skills)
• Report generation (Hard Skills)
• Process ownership (Soft Skills)
• Variance analysis (Hard Skills)

Job Summary:

• Providing analytical, forecasting, reporting, and project support to senior management
• Conducting cost-benefit analyses to determine value.
• Identifying opportunities for performance improvement across the organization
• Monitoring spending to ensure it remains within budget.
• Estimating and forecasting future financial need and supporting programs with financial analytics.
• Participating in establishing and defining program plan requirements and conducting program plan studies.
• Monitoring and reporting performance against Budget to ensure targets are met.
• Forecasting and tracking financial results throughout the year to meet budget projections.
• Organizing budget templates and data in a clear and intuitive manner.
• Helping to identify financial or operating risks associated with the execution of the contract or project.
• Providing project summary status reports to management
• Developing models that help with decision-making

Skills on Resume: 

• Financial analysis (Hard Skills)
• Cost-benefit analysis (Hard Skills)
• Performance monitoring (Hard Skills)
• Financial forecasting (Hard Skills)
• Budget management (Hard Skills)
• Risk identification (Hard Skills)
• Data organization (Hard Skills)
• Model development (Hard Skills)

Job Summary:

• Combine detailed market understanding, external environmental factors (e.g. CAPEX), forecast accuracy, and statistical inputs to create and tune detailed product forecasts
• Coordinate with PLM, Sales, and Commercial Operations to produce a monthly forecast (24-month view) and weekly forecast (13-week view) that will be communicated to production
• Assist in weekly and monthly forecasting meetings that will drive results for manufacturing capacity planning and global S&OP (Sales and Operations Planning)
• Develop and maintain expertise on the forecast system
• Understand and apply appropriate statistical models and parameters in forecasting process
• Develop and/or improve data management and automation tools for forecasting analytics
• Measure and report product forecast accuracy to achieve division accuracy goals and self-correct future forecasts
• Track and report performance of key metrics versus forecasts and business plans, report to senior management
• Maintain key data in forecasting software
• Generate other impromptu forecasts for budget, business plans, ARs, financial exercises, scenario planning, or as otherwise required by upper management
• Communicate forecasting processes and best practices within the business
• Assist with special projects and prepare/make presentations

Skills on Resume: 

• Forecast development (Hard Skills)
• S&OP management (Hard Skills)
• Statistical modeling (Hard Skills)
• Data automation tools (Hard Skills)
• Accuracy measurement (Hard Skills)
• Performance tracking (Hard Skills)
• Forecast software proficiency (Hard Skills)
• Communication of processes (Soft Skills)

Job Summary:

• Collaborate with Demand & Inventory Planners to develop and maintain size profiles in the forecasting system.
• Create and update a library of size profiles by product type, market and season.
• Work with sales, retail, product & demand planning teams on seasonal product sizing updates
• Recommend the development of new size profiles to increase service level/fill rate and drive business performance.
• Create & analyze forecast accuracy & bias reports.
• Develop enhancements to improve results. 
• Show continuous improvement in forecast accuracy.
• Analyze historical demand, filter out outliers/exceptions, and propose improvement opportunities.
• Manage results by exceptions utilizing demand planning tools and reports, identifying patterns (trends) and necessary fixes
• Conduct quantitative analysis and develop insights to optimize service level/fill rate performance in end-to-end supply chain based on sizing, including improved capacity and lead-time planning and VMI programs with suppliers
• Coordinate with cross-functional partners on aligning master data for system functionality & optimization

Skills on Resume: 

• Forecast system management (Hard Skills)
• Data analysis (Hard Skills)
• Forecast accuracy reporting (Hard Skills)
• Historical demand analysis (Hard Skills)
• Demand planning tool utilization (Hard Skills)
• Quantitative analysis (Hard Skills)
• Cross-functional coordination (Soft Skills)
• Continuous improvement (Soft Skills)

Job Summary:

• Gather Data from a variety of sources, to assess, interpret, and analyze the data to have a supportable forecast for customers. 
• Analytic skills must include the ability to see the big picture and the demonstration of strong business intuition.
• Analyze customer sales data to report on promotional activities, historical sales trends, sales trends by category and much more.
• Drive continuous improvement in the forecasting process and software by suggesting changes/fine-tuning to help software produce the best possible forecasts or reports and help to streamline information
• Analyze pertinent data including historical movement and seasonality/trends of product categories to make recommendations for revising monthly forecasts
• Monitor and report forecast accuracy vs actual activity, explaining and reacting to variances in a timely fashion. 
• Including a weekly meeting to analyze sales of chosen accounts with the purchasing team and account managers.
• Provide information to management regarding past periods, future forecasts and associated key drivers
• Maintain a regular review process with Account Managers and Product Managers to challenge and improve forecast accuracy
• Set forecasts for the Launch product, and review system forecast implementations
• Advise and maintain list of discontinued products

Skills on Resume: 

• Data gathering (Hard Skills)
• Analytic skills (Hard Skills)
• Forecast improvement (Hard Skills)
• Data analysis (Hard Skills)
• Forecast accuracy monitoring (Hard Skills)
• Sales trend analysis (Hard Skills)
• Management reporting (Hard Skills)
• Forecast setting (Hard Skills)

Job Summary:

• Analysis of sales data by product group, customer type and Representative
• Weekly stock monitoring, forecasting and planning
• Raising purchase orders
• Working with suppliers and logistics partners to arrange regular import shipments
• Analysing data and producing reports
• Creating reports and charts for internal / external presentations
• Liaising with customers, suppliers and colleagues
• Assist the Forecast Manager in the development of forecast process mapping by region
• Utilize Forecast Pro to develop monthly demand forecasts, incorporating brand managers’ assumptions on planned promotional activities
• Monitor seasonality, market trends, competitive activity and inventory on-hand stock and value levels
• Present in monthly meetings with portfolio managers to review forecasts generated by Forecast Pro and confirm forecast adjustments
• Facilitate communications and reporting to key stakeholders and senior management
• Work with IT to maintain up-to-date systems data
• Participate in weekly S&OP meetings

Skills on Resume: 

• Sales data analysis (Hard Skills)
• Stock monitoring (Hard Skills)
• Purchase ordering (Hard Skills)
• Report production (Hard Skills)
• Stakeholder communication (Soft Skills)
• Demand forecasting (Hard Skills)
• Forecast Pro utilization (Hard Skills)
• S&OP participation (Soft Skills)

Job Summary:

• Analyze sales trends and create an appropriate demand forecast for each division.
• Create and maintain all reports and documents regarding the HMI 4 month operational forecast.
• Create a weekly operational forecast by division to report on sales status for each month.
• Manage the creation and maintenance of all monthly cover orders.
• Update and change item status based on inventory levels and management decisions.
• Create and maintain all Business Process Procedure (BPP) documentation for forecasting reports.
• Work with Information Technology staff to implement improvements in forecasting accuracy, ease of operations, or changes in business processes that affect master data.
• Support HMI Operations in all other assigned projects
• Gain knowledge of the entire organization that will ensure a greater understanding of how forecasting affects all areas of HMI
• Maintain planning and inventory system, including new product set-up, and end-of-life product deactivation.
• Support the inventory management team in ad hoc analysis across supply chain KPI’s – safety stock, service levels, on-time delivery and forecast accuracy.

Skills on Resume: 

• Sales trend analysis (Hard Skills)
• Demand forecasting (Hard Skills)
• Report creation (Hard Skills)
• Inventory management (Hard Skills)
• BPP documentation (Hard Skills)
• IT collaboration (Soft Skills)
• System maintenance (Hard Skills)
• Ad hoc analysis (Hard Skills)

Job Summary:

• Generate and update the forecast every week so that the ops team can do job
• Work with Senior Management for long-term budgeting and big projects
• Work closely with the tech team to develop further the tools supporting  role
• Learn who customers are and analyze behaviour
• Drill down on any oddities and find the root cause
• Anticipate customer trends
• Stay close to product development to onboard new complexity
• Develop and maintain relationships with key customer forecasting personnel
• Communicate forecast changes and variances to Purchasing and Operations
• Assist in identifying gaps between sales orders and forecast data and communicate information to Purchasing and Operations
• Work internally with Operations to ensure ongoing activities align with customer expectations from a Forecast, Purchasing, and Operational perspective
• Prioritize with internal customers in order to fulfill external customer needs.

Skills on Resume: 

• Forecast generation (Hard Skills)
• Budget coordination (Soft Skills)
• Tool development collaboration (Soft Skills)
• Customer behavior analysis (Hard Skills)
• Trend anticipation (Hard Skills)
• Relationship management (Soft Skills)
• Forecast communication (Soft Skills)
• Internal alignment (Soft Skills)

Job Summary:

• Prepare scheduled reports to a wide group of stakeholders to ensure that they’re informed on performance, forecast & budget and plan based on results
• Build forecasts for sales volumes and price, linked to commercial activity
• Align input assumptions for forecasts with cross-functional stakeholders
• Evaluate the variance of the forecast to the budget/ plan and the drivers of the difference
• Understand and investigate the daily performance of FTTP
• Provide recommendations for commercial changes that will impact customers
• Have full ownership of numbers, including analysis on a daily, weekly and monthly basis
• Complete any ad-hoc requests for information and analysis to help support the making of informed business decisions
• Analyse MI across all key metrics to understand how to improve the accuracy of the forecasts
• Communicate complex analytical work in an accessible manner

Skills on Resume: 

• Report preparation (Hard Skills)
• Forecast development (Hard Skills)
• Stakeholder alignment (Soft Skills)
• Variance analysis (Hard Skills)
• Performance analysis (Hard Skills)
• Ownership of numbers (Hard Skills)
• MI analysis (Hard Skills)
• Complex communication (Soft Skills)

Job Summary:

• Supports the annual and ongoing business planning process for the digital portfolio
• Provides regular updates and analysis on digital / loyalty business performance, including program performance, sales/financial impacts, and market share
• Drives focus of the cross functional team around business priorities
• Works with strategic initiatives and national strategy teams to ensure digital plan and forecasts ladder up into national and global plans
• Contributes to annual marketing planning process
• Forecasts, tests and assesses business performance for national initiatives and regional activations where necessary
• Translates marketing calendar into business impact across several key metrics
• Conducts sophisticated analytics to gain deeper cause-and-effect insight into business performance and initiatives, including operations and menu category activities
• Helps define, build and maintain category-specific strategies and financial targets, as well as marketing initiatives that support the business strategy
• Collaborates with forecasting team to meet all deadlines, communicates with clients as necessary, and ensures high-quality output of completed assignments.

Skills on Resume: 

• Business planning support (Hard Skills)
• Performance analysis (Hard Skills)
• Cross-functional coordination (Soft Skills)
• Strategic alignment (Soft Skills)
• Marketing forecasting (Hard Skills)
• Sophisticated analytics (Hard Skills)
• Strategy development (Soft Skills)
• Collaborative forecasting (Soft Skills)

Job Summary:

• Solve complex challenges.
• Act with a compliance mindset and comply with all laws, regulations, and policies.
• Develop revenue forecast models and execute monthly global demand planning process.
• Communicate results and business impacts of insight initiatives to key stakeholders.
• Collaborate across multiple departments and leaders to improve forecasts and automate timely insights.
• Manage timelines and resources to ensure effective work allocation and workload balancing multiple concurrent projects.
• Influence critical thinking while driving major change initiatives, asking the tough questions, and looking for answers in the right places.
• Understands lodging market supply, demand, and economic fundamentals and can identify historical trends and patterns.
• Completing Custom Forecast assignments, in particular during peak busy season, which runs from May through October.
• Participates in quarterly forecast discussion/review with members of Senior Staff to share insights that may be valuable to STR's broader market and national forecasting efforts.
• Understand and predict customer behavior to create a weekly supply and demand forecast that positions us for success on an hourly basis across marketplaces
• Continuously identify and implement improvement opportunities that unlock real benefits for scalability and profitability

Skills on Resume: 

• Complex problem-solving (Hard Skills)
• Compliance adherence (Soft Skills)
• Revenue forecasting (Hard Skills)
• Stakeholder communication (Soft Skills)
• Cross-departmental collaboration (Soft Skills)
• Project management (Soft Skills)
• Market analysis (Hard Skills)
• Continuous improvement (Soft Skills)

Job Summary:

• Develops processes, tools, and reports
• Provides analytics to support H-E-B's supply chain strategic initiatives such as supply and demand forecasting, inventory planning, logistics, and cost optimization
• Improves methods for costing analysis on end-to-end order fulfillment; develops lower-cost methods
• Discovers/drives new ways of using information to impact business decisions and results
• Applies experiential knowledge to provide credible, action-oriented analysis/recommendations on new business opportunities and existing business
• Develops cost/benefit analysis, design, and implementation of supply chain models for projects
• Provides support/resources for ad-hoc analysis requests, tools, development, and process improvement projects
• Analyzes and improves sales volume forecasts for eStore labor planning and capacity optimization; builds labor planning tools for eFCs
• Determines the most efficient selecting/shipping methods, transportation costs, and order delivery schedules
• Develop and implement demand planning & forecast strategies for over 20 live entertainment events, multiple distribution centers, e-commerce and more.
• Meet regularly with business unit partners to understand sales rates and all inputs that will impact those rates.
• Dive deep into specific areas to build expertise and produce new insights that are key to understanding business and customers

Skills on Resume: 

• Supply chain analytics (Hard Skills)
• Costing analysis (Hard Skills)
• Business decision impact (Soft Skills)
• Cost/benefit analysis (Hard Skills)
• Forecast strategy development (Hard Skills)
• Labor planning optimization (Hard Skills)
• Demand planning (Hard Skills)
• Partner collaboration (Soft Skills)

Job Summary:

• Maintain a centralized, public Sales, Inventory & Operations Planning (SIOP) workbook to reflect latest demand forecast (including service parts) and confirmed deliveries from suppliers. 
• Schedule and lead the weekly Supply & Demand meeting with CES stakeholders to assess the need for changes to the demand/supply/inventory plan. 
• Document actions/decisions from the meetings and communicate them to the appropriate CES leadership team.
• Work closely with product management and Director of Supply Operations to understand the product roadmap, and especially the upcoming product launches, to ensure smooth cutover plans are established for both the sales and supply chain teams.
• Review purchase order receipts in SAP and compare to suppliers’ weekly open order reports to make sure they align with the requested delivery schedule in the SIOP workbook, and give guidance to the corporate buying team as necessary (including service parts).
• Review sales orders in SAP and compare to material receipts to ensure accurate ship dates are being communicated to customers.
• Work with the corporate data governance team and the Director of Supply Operations to revise MRP data as necessary to maintain accurate production lead times.
• Work in conjunction with corporate forecasting/budgeting and adjust estimated attendance to remain accurate.
• Monitor worldwide inventory to ensure the inventory allocation is correct and adjust when necessary.
• Use and maintain the John Galt Demand Planning software or SAP/APO, JDA/Blue Yonder, or Oracle Demand Planning or other software related to demand planning

Skills on Resume: 

• SIOP management (Hard Skills)
• Meeting facilitation (Soft Skills)
• Stakeholder communication (Soft Skills)
• SAP proficiency (Hard Skills)
• Product roadmap alignment (Soft Skills)
• MRP data revision (Hard Skills)
• Inventory monitoring (Hard Skills)
• Demand planning software usage (Hard Skills)

Job Summary:

• Prepare and maintain relevant reports pertaining to the demand planning process.
• Partner cross-functionally with key stakeholders from different departments to create processes, share knowledge, and maintain alignment as it relates to evolving interdependencies
• Supporting the maintenance and analysis of sales forecast data.
• Acquiring the skills necessary to issue finished goods production plans.
• Liaising with the sales team to maintain and critique sales forecast data.
• Make monthly/weekly/daily adjustments to the forecast to ensure a clear outlook across the period.
• Challenging sales managers on forecast assumptions.
• Driving and enabling continuous improvement of the forecasting process.
• Developing close working relationships across various departments including sales, operations, finance, and marketing.
• Present insights and findings to various stakeholders that help drive business decisions

Skills on Resume: 

• Demand planning reporting (Hard Skills)
• Cross-functional collaboration (Soft Skills)
• Sales forecast analysis (Hard Skills)
• Production planning (Hard Skills)
• Forecast adjustment (Hard Skills)
• Forecast process improvement (Soft Skills)
• Interdepartmental relationships (Soft Skills)
• Data presentation (Soft Skills)