Assistant Manager/Manager - Demand Planning - BPO/ITeS

We are looking for candidates who are ready to work in US and UK shifts.

Job Description:

- Understand variability of product categories and develops robust set of corresponding statistical models

- Develops statistical processes to support development of long range plans

- Develop demand plans at the division, product, and location level

- Conducts trend analyses and facilitates discussions with marketing and sales to drive consensus

- Facilitates demand review and consensus meetings and supports development of Sales and Operations Planning decks

- Utilizes accuracy and bias results to improve site level forecasts

- Analyzes and reviews the divisional demand plans with Finance, Marketing and Sales

- Ensures demand alignment with long term strategic plans

- Provide optimization of costs and service in support of company profitability plans.

- Strong knowledge of demand planning process and S&OP

- Should have functional experience in forecasting tools & statistical forecasting techniques

- Strong Supply Chain analytical capabilities with skills in Demand Forecasting and Inventory Planning

- Good statistical knowledge

- Development of demand planning response to customer / product segmentation to maintain and/or improve forecast accuracy

- Demand Sensing

- Add impacts of seasonal and LTO (limited time offer) demand to the forecast based on the inputs received from the business

- Experience in managing end of life cycle and absolute inventory

- Excellent verbal and written communication.

Responsibilities:

- The resource would be part of the Demand Planning team and would be independently handling

- Perform monthly and quarterly statistical forecasting and perform various relevant analysis & reporting as required by business time to time

- Continuously improving forecasting techniques, method, and approach towards optimizing inventory and their distribution

- Relating and measuring the impact of forecast accuracy

- Monitor SKU levels and recommend SKU rationalization initiatives in the future

- Indicate trend changes and exceptions on case-to-case basis and escalate appropriately.

- Ensuring and driving the upkeep and maintenance of process documentation and standard operating procedures for de