Analyst - Sales & Operations - Target Corporation

Principal duties and Responsibilities :

- Deliver Demand planning, Forecast numbers on a fixed cadence(Weekly, daily, monthly or half yearly)

- Drive automation to allow for faster and more informed decisions, leading to improved KPIs.

- Focus on standardization and efficient distribution of forecast reports to support integrated planning framework.

- Enable multiple scenarios and simulations for what-if planning and analysis in specific supply chain areas.

- Develop exception report(s) for automatic detection of exceptions to plan, as well as processes to address the exceptions within defined SLAs.

- Possess Business context to understand data sources and navigate through Organization's technological roadmap.

- Utilize data to guide future work, build recommendations, and drive innovation.

- Monitor Forecast accuracy and customer service KPI's (Error, Bias and Lag Analysis).

- Provide deep dive analysis of red and yellow KPIs and facilitate resolution and action plans for the issues.

- Understand End-To-End supply chain network and solve real world problems with regards to Capacity Planning within the network.

Minimum Requirements :

- 2-3 years of experience in forecasting, inventory management, demand planning and Supply Planning. SQL, R, Python

- Prior experience working in and/or supporting Demand planning, Forecasting, Sales and Operations Planning, Inventory management and Storage capacity planning.

- High competency in Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Project, and PowerPoint.

- Dashboard tools such as Microsoft Power BI.

- Strong communication and interpersonal skills.

Preferred Requirements :

- Prior experience working in and/or supporting Forecasting, Sales and Operations Planning, Inventory management and Storage capacity planning.

Familiarity and experience with programming in a few of the following :

- Spark, Shell Script, DOMO.

- Knowledge of advanced statistics.

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