Sr. Analyst, Market Planning

Wella • CA

87d • $75,000 - $85,000

About The Position

The Sr. Analyst position is responsible for ensuring appropriate inventory levels to support the market demand plan and strategy. Establish strategic collaboration with factories and global deployment team to ensure network supply strategies including inventory policies are established with service, cost, and cash balance. Have a focus to ensure excess and obsolete inventory is always not created. Provide regular market-facing supply and service analysis including top projected missed dollars and actions plans along with historical analysis and gap to targets. This role will also owe the success of our new brand supply implementation after acquisition.

Requirements

• Education: BA/ BS in Economics, Business Administration, Supply Chain Management, Data Analytics or related field
• Experience: 3-5+ years’ experience in supply planning, demand planning, project management, data analytics, and/or production management
• Technical Skills: MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Vision
• IDEAL Technical Skill: Power BI
• Experience owning measures and improving results
• Strong analytical and project management skills required, including a thorough understanding of how to interpret customer business needs and translate them into application and operational requirements
• Communication skills: Ability to communicate clearly, transparently, concisely, and on a timely basis with leadership
• Ability to challenge and refine business process and/or data requirements
• Aptitude for problem solving; proven ability to create, implement and measure new processes
• Collaboration Skills: Ability to work collaboratively across different styles. Develop strong partnerships. Must be able to work well with people not physically collocated

Nice To Haves

• Education: MBA/MS degree preferred
• Technical Skills: SQL
• CPG industry experience a plus

Responsibilities

• Weekly Inventory analysis and FR risk outlook preparation
• Supporting Sr. Manager with analysis on product availability status - data extraction from JDA/SAP/BY and other sources
• Collaboration with Demand Planner – understand the forecasting process and actively challenge/influence the building blocks that impact production and delivery of product
• Collaboration with multifunctional team – focused on understanding current brand & channel strategies/needs and providing product availability context/watchouts
• Proactive communication of potential supply crisis, developing risk mitigation proposals and executing allocation plans in the market
• Prepare and communicate supply outlook and critical risks/opportunities to commercial team on a regular basis
• Phase-In & Phase Out codes tracking and stock management
• Contribute to reduction of E&O stock in collaboration with Trade Marketing and Planning Hub - develop a deep understanding of supply chain limitations and opportunities and actively engaging other teams to deplete excess stock and optimize initiatives execution
• Challenge production/deployment plan when required
• Drive alignment of safety/cycle stock parameters, minimum order quantities, and other system parameters to improve the inventory coverage within the region
• Collaboration with the Planning Hub on production prioritization to ensure market needs are reflected & Fill Rate is on target
• Participate in daily / weekly and monthly connects with all critical business partners
• Ensuring successful Initiatives execution in the market, in collaboration with Market Initiative Planner and other functions, proactive risk mitigation plans, reducing PIPO disruption impact on daily availability for orders and balancing Phase Out and Phase In inventory

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Life and disability insurance
• 401(k) retirement plan
• Paid holidays
• Paid time off (PTO)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees