Demand Planner

Title: Supply Chain and Logistics - Demand Planner 3

Location: Beaverton, OR

Duration: 07 Months contract

Job Description:

• 5 years’ experience required

Top must-have skills include the following:

• Excel expertise
• Hands-on forecasting/planning experience

Desired soft skills:

• Great team player
• Strong communication skills
• Willingness to jump into the role ready to hit the ground running
• Positivity
• Collaborative

Skills that would make a candidate stand out:

• SAP experience
• Prior Client experience OR forecasting/planning experience with a similar company/brand

• The nature of the work is focused on the effective and efficient distribution of products and services to customers. Utilizes advanced forecasting and analysis techniques to anticipate consumer demand and market trends.
• Develops detailed product demand plans for assigned category that result in high forecast accuracy, thereby contributing to Client and customer profitability.
• Provide technical expertise and mentoring within demand planning function.
• Develops, integrates and provides short-term accounts or brand specific forecasts for internal operations which include replenishment data, customer data, sales promotion information, marketing plans and new distribution/product deletions.
• Use statistical analysis and data-driven decision making tools for the validation of initial seasonal product by category.
• Support with documentation, timely communication. Analyzes internal demand stream information, and categorizes according to demand patterns.
• Use expertise to employ statistical techniques, business targets, causal factors, external market and sell-through analysis, that will result in highly accurate global forecasts.