Demand Analyst

Job Description

Demand Planner - Colorado

This is a full-time, non-exempt position.

The key purpose of this role is to develop accurate demand plans and scenarios by improving the statistical forecast baseline, gathering and merging insights from Sales, Marketing, and Finance and facilitating discussions to reach consensus on future demand.

Responsibilities:

• Maintains statistical model in the demand planning tool

• Generates statistical forecast, calculates forecast error, bias, and value add and drives action plans to improve forecast accuracy

• Ensures that commercial/sales are providing necessary inputs into the demand plan and approval

• Gathers necessary inputs for the demand review meetings

• Facilitates the demand review meetings

• Reviews monetized financial impact

• Identifies needs for alternative demand scenario based on risks

• Works with Supply Planner to balance supply/demand imbalances

Skills Required:

• Bachelor's degree along with 5 or more years of experience in demand planning within CPG. Experience in a "made to order" environment is a plus

• APICS or CSCMP certifications a plus

• Statistical analysis

• Demand forecasting techniques

• Familiarity with target markets

• Understanding of the end-to-end S&OP and S&OE process

• Ability to work with large datasets

• Comfortable with facilitating meetings and drive consensus

• Critical thinking skills

• Problem solving skills

• Data modeling

• Ability to effectively communicate complex ideas

• Work to deadlines

• Manage conflict

• Drive completion of action plans through informal influence

Excited about this role but don't meet every requirement listed? Studies show that often applicants will self-select out if they don't check every box. We encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this role or another one of our openings.

ADM requires the successful completion of a pre-employment drug screen and a background check.

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