Senior Analyst, Demand Planning
The Sr. Analyst, Demand Planning within the Global Demand Center of Excellence (COE) is responsible for developing, analyzing, and modeling business or market forecast trends, insights, gaps, KPIs, opportunities and risks in forecast projections to ensure a high-quality demand plan for the organization. The Lead Analyst will focus on enabling high quality, predictability, and reliability of the demand forecast for the assigned business unit(s) and/or regional markets. This role will serve as the primary liaison between the Demand Center of Excellence and the business demand planners and IBP analysts – building trust and credibility through transparent communication, proactive problem-solving, and consistently delivering results. The Lead Analyst will be expected to collaborate with the in-country or region demand planning market experts to improve and optimize key brands and products as required.
This role will also maximize system capability by partnering across the Demand COE and with enterprise systems and technology experts to drive system governance and end user training. This role will also be responsible for developing and analyzing regional forecast trends and identified gaps or risks in the demand plan to drive the right collaboration with business planners and only make value-added adjustments.
The Senior Analyst must have solid skills in quantitative, analytical and organizational skills with hands-on forecasting and statistical modeling experience. This role must be capable of being a thought leader, show creativity and efficiency in solving problems, and appropriately communicate and escalate issues as needed.
This role requires someone who can understand large volumes of data, leverage statistical modelling, advanced data analysis, detecting patterns in data, and build an accurate and suitable forecast for the business.
What you will do:
- Create and maintain high quality statistical demand