Senior Forecasting Analyst
About The Position
HAVI is a global, privately owned company focused on innovating, optimizing and managing the supply chains of leading brands. Offering services in marketing analytics, packaging, supply chain management and logistics, HAVI partners with companies to address challenges big and small across the supply chain, from commodity to customer. Founded in 1974, HAVI employs more than 10,000 people and serves customers in more than 100 countries. For more information, please visit HAVI.com. Are you looking for an opportunity to be one of the faces to our largest clients? Welcome to your next role! The Sr Forecasting Analyst will serve as a key representative to our internal and external stakeholders across Supply Chain, Marketing and Business Insights. This individual is expected to lead the creation of promotional forecasts in collaboration with internal and external partners and requires the ability to fully analyze and speak to the forecasting process and output. This role is also responsible for ensuring high forecast accuracy. This is a hybrid role based at 345 N Morgan St, Chicago, IL 60607. Candidates must reside in the Chicago metropolitan area. Relocation assistance is not offered at this time.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree required with emphasis on Business, Statistics/Informatics, Mathematics, Economics, Data Science, Supply Chain & Logistics with equivalent professional experience
- Minimum of 5+ years of data analysis, forecasting, demand planning, supply planning experience
- Experience in managing client relationships and expectations in a B2B setting required
- Experience in coordinating team effort, with responsibility for end-results
- Proficiency in MS Excel (pivot tables, macros), PowerPoint, and Word
Nice To Haves
- Experience with statistical software packages (SAS, SQL, R, Python, etc.) is a plus
- Experience with Marketing/Social Media analytics is a plus
Responsibilities
- Build sales forecasts individually and lead the creation of sales forecasts by our offshore forecasting team
- Analyze sales performance, data trends, quantify business drivers such as price and marketing initiatives, and create baseline models
- Build and refine PowerPoint decks summarizing forecasting insights and results
- Present and defend forecasts to the customer and address customer feedback and questions
- Serve as the face to the customer, develop and maintain strong relationships to influence decision making and promote HAVI’s role as thought leader
- Mediate and guide conversation between different business units, including various client stakeholders, to reach optimal outcome for all parties
- Lead communication of project status and reports to appropriate internal and external partners
- Manage multiple deliverables’ timelines and scope in order to meet customer objectives and milestones
- Ensure that the forecasting team is using best-in-class methods by keeping up-to-date with industry and business trends
- Lead or participate on special project teams
- Understand & interpret customer challenges to identify opportunities & work with internal team to improve processes and maximize projects’ value-add to the client
- Provide recommendations to demand planning, supply planning and enablement teams on process improvements, solving problems and accomplishing planning objectives based on holistic understanding of cross-functional roles in the overall supply planning process
Benefits
- Generous medical, dental, vision and other great benefits
- Paid parental and medical leave programs
- 401(k) with a company match component and profit sharing
- 15 days of paid time off plus company holidays
- Tuition reimbursement and student loan repayment assistance
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
