Position Overview

Demand Planning Analyst

Novelis is the world leader in aluminum rolling and recycling, producing an estimated 19 percent of the world's flat-rolled aluminum products. We work alongside our customers to provide innovative solutions to the aerospace, beverage can, automotive and high-end specialty markets.

Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, Novelis has approximately 11,600 employees in 25 operating facilities on four continents and is investing close to $1.5 billion in global rolling and recycling expansions to meet the growing demand for our premium product.

The Novelis North America (NNA) is seeking a Demand Planning Analyst. The Demand Planning Analyst is responsible for providing an accurate product line demand forecast that will allow for synchronized production of plant and supplier operations, deployment of stock, reduction of inventories and maximization of customer service.

Responsibilities & Qualifications

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with the Commercial and Product Line Demand Manager to develop, monitor, and improve forecast accuracy for product line(s).
• Generate an unconstrained rolled-up product line forecast to be included in Novelis North America (NNA) Demand Plan for S&OP.
• Execute S&OP Constrained demand plan by translating to a SKU level forecast and develop customer allocation strategies.
• Provide direction to the Account Management Specialists to allocate orders to align with the S&OP constrained demand plan. Collaborates with both Product Line Demand Managers and Commercial to refine forecasts and demand expectations.
• Ensures understanding of forecasts and communicates variances in a timely fashion.
• Performs data analysis and takes the findings to the next step by being able to interpret the data to provide recommendations to drive business decisions. Ownership for forecast accuracy metrics. Develop and execute on forecast improvement action plans with Product Line Demand Manager.
• Provide leadership for the process development, tool development, and best practices for order entry and forecasting to ensure efforts contribute to the attainment of business objectives.
• Customer fulfillment tasks include coordinating customer orders within the plan and booking guidelines, customer contact, communicating priorities to plants.
• Perform the duties of the Product Line Demand Manager in their absence, including oversight of Account Management Specialists, leading forecast meetings, performing analysis, and reporting. Coaching and providing support to Account Management Specialists

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business or related field required
• Supply Chain professional certification preferred
• 2 years of supply chain experience

Location Profile

Novelis’ Global Corporate Headquarters is located in the Buckhead neighborhood of Atlanta Georgia and employs approximately 250 people. It is co-located with Novelis’ North America regional office which employs approximately 225 people. Supporting its 24 operations worldwide Novelis’ corporate office is home to the executive leadership team and global functions that support the automotive beverage can and high-end specialties value streams. The City of Atlanta provides a diverse and family-friendly place to live with countless museums cultural organizations and educational institutions including the Georgia Aquarium Woodruff Arts Center CNN Center Georgia Tech and Mercedes-Benz Stadium. In the Atlanta area Novelis has strong community partnerships with Atlanta Habitat for Humanity GeorgiaFIRST and Agape Youth and Family Center in addition to many local museums and community groups. Novelis recognizes its talented and diverse workforce as a key competitive advantage. Novelis provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants. All terms and conditions of employment at Novelis including recruiting hiring placement promotion termination layoffs recalls transfers leaves of absence compensation and training are without regard to race color religion age sex national origin disability status genetics protected veteran status sexual orientation gender identity or expression or any other characteristic protected by federal provincial or local laws.