SME - Demand Forecasting Consulting

Role: Demand Forecasting SME (Subject Matter Expert)-Will be required to lead the product development and management effort of a demand forecasting platform.

Client: A multi Billion $ IT solutions & Services Company.

Location-Chennai or Pune,India

Experience:

- 15+ years of industry/research experience covering operational forecasting, promotions forecasting, new product forecasting preferably in CPG, Food & Beverage, Consumer Electronics, Retail.

- Should have contributed to building the forecasting system (package or home-grown) from requirements to design to development to enhancements.

- A mix of academic and industry experience will be a big plus.

Expertise Required:

- Solid understanding of statistical concepts around forecasting and data analysis.

- Expected to be familiar with statistical tests required to establish the characteristics of a time-series (ACF - Auto-correlation Function, Heteroskedasticity, Durbin-Watson, residual auto-correlation, differencing to name a few key ones).

- Deep understanding of different types of forecasting algorithms required (should be able to assess the suitability of a forecasting algorithm for a given time series based on time-series data analysis).

- Expertise/experience in automating forecast data analysis, algorithm selection, parameter value determination will be a big plus.

- Understanding and analysis of forecast error and using it for model improvement. Good understanding of statistical clustering will also be a plus.

Should have good expertise in one of the following:

1) Pureplay statistical packages: R, PYTHON,SPSS or other open source

Education: MS/ME/MTech or PhD(Maths/Statistics) with focus on forecasting

Shobini
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