Demand Planning Analyst

Location: Karachi, Islamabad, Lahore

Experience

• At least 2-3 years of work experience in a demand planning role.
• Strong cognitive ability to build forecasting and tracking model from business needs.
• Strong analytical focus to be able to identify the right information source to extract sales information and maintain sales report and troubleshoot.
• Ability to manage multiple work streams at the same time.

Advantageous:

• Basic project management skills
• Consumer marketing experience

PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Deliver the Consensus Demand Forecast for a portfolio of products through the monthly planning process.
• Provide accurate and timely volume performance analysis to facilitate demand forecasting.
• Maintain statistical forecast models and baseline
• Maintain forecast drivers at the appropriate level of the product hierarchy
• Maintain core assumptions and their impact on the demand scenario.
• Track core assumptions, trends, risks, and opportunities.
• Constructively challenge stakeholders on the accuracy of drivers.
• Timely delivery of statistical baseline and other demand forecasting task as per agreed scope
• Track actual performance against forecast, working cross functionally to understand reasons for variance and providing analysis and recommendations to Manager for remedial action.
• Working with Supply Team to mitigate disruption from the evolution of the forecast