What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sr Supply Planning Analyst position at Well Enterprises - Career Site?
Company: Wells Enterprises (a Ferrero Company)
Functional Area: Supply Chain & Logistics
The Role
The Sr. Supply Planning role will be responsible for coordinating and leading cross-functional reviews when customer fulfillment prioritizations are required. Able to consume and analyze large, complex data and process to actionable insights for key stakeholders.
What You’ll Do
- Ability to analyze large complex information and able to create dashboards and reporting to provide actionable insights for stakeholders.
- Responsible for review of customer orders daily and prioritize the available inventory according to service priorities and communicate decisions and supply constraints to Customer Service, Sales, and key stakeholders.
- Support S&OP processes by providing priority updates and inventory risk assessments. Analyze order fulfillment performance, backorders, fill rates, and inventory utilization to identify trends and recommend improvements.
- Prepare and present analysis at various IBP meetings; explaining financial variances to forecast, plan, budget, as well as other ad-hoc scenario analysis as requested.
- Support and pricing by partnering with Finance and evaluating the financial impact of changes in costs, labor, and overhead.
- Be curious with strong problem-solving skills. Ability to work independently and with ambiguity.
- Responsible for understanding and utilizing both internal and external data sources to ensure an accurate forecast (i.e. Arkieva, Llamasoft, Nielsen, and IRI).
Qualifications:
What You’ll Bring
Bachelor's degree preferred in business, math/statistics, finance/accounting.
5-7 years of experience in a demand planning role preferably in a CPG environment. 1-3 years of experience with S&OP. Background with demand planning software. Prefer experience with partnering with large retail accounts in collaborative demand planning or CPFR.
- Knowledge Solid knowledge of overall business planning processes to ensure decisions are based on being able to see the big picture of supporting company goals & objectives.
- Skills – Solid analytical and problem-solving skills, strong communication skills both verbal & written, able to effectively use Excel using data from various sources, strong listening skills & comfortable interfacing with customers & sales teams Possesses function and technical skills to do the job at a high level of accomplishment, possesses excellent communication skills.
- Abilities – The ability to show patience in high tension situations, able to deal with concepts and complexity comfortably and the ability to focus on delta.
Supervisory Scope – Reports to Director of Demand Planning; direct reports – NA; Indirect Reports – N/A.
Wells Enterprises is an EEO/AA employer M/F/Vet/Dis
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