Demand Planning Analyst
The Boston Beer Company
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Boston • Massachusetts • United States
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Salary
💰 $74,000 - $136,000 per year
About the role
- Develop demand forecasts for assigned BBC brands at multiple levels of aggregation for multiple time horizons
- Utilize internal and syndicated sources to gather business performance data
- Use statistical and trend-based models to generate forecasts
- Interact with Sales & Brand teams to understand forecast drivers, risks, and opportunities
- Own monthly Demand Reviews for assigned brands in the BBC S&OP process
- Facilitate alignment between functions on yearly, quarterly and style-level depletions
- Understand inputs and explain variances between multiple demand scenarios
- Summarize key changes in volume projections to an executive level
- Participation in regular S&OP and Commercialization meetings
- Provide support to key business partners (Finance, Operations, Brand, Sales)
- Provide reporting on actual performance vs projection
- Drive alignment between top-down and bottoms-up forecasts
- Monitor and reconcile variances against forecasts
- Identify products performing outside of expected trends and conduct additional analyses to help identify reason(s) for variance
- Work cross-functionally to gather insights from Brand and Sales teams to further explain variances and identify assumptions to include in updated forecasts
- Provide support with PBI reporting and other visuals for S&OP support
- Provide support with integration between Kinaxis, Anaplan and OBO
- Establish bench strength to support Demand Planning activities for all brands
- Provide additional ad hoc analysis and support upon request
- KPI accountability to support operating performance in forecasting accuracy, Finished Goods Reserves/Write-off Risk, and Customer Satisfaction (Service Level)
Requirements
- Bachelors Degree in finance, accounting, economics, engineering, mathematics, statistics or quantitative methods preferred.
- Strong understanding of demand planning in the Consumer Packaged Goods industry.
- Strong analytical abilities
- Demonstrated ability to handle multiple tasks while setting priorities simultaneously with a high degree of accuracy in an Analyst function.
- Extensive spreadsheet analysis and strong mathematical abilities (advanced excel skills)
- Ability to manipulate large data sets
- High sense of urgency and commitment to task with a strong sense of accountability
- Detail and action-oriented self-starter
- 4+ years of analyst experience preferred
- Knowledge of demand management/forecasting tools, forecasting processes in sales, marketing, operations, finance, manufacturing and supply chain issues
- Knowledge of Power BI a plus
Benefits
- Tuition reimbursement
- Fertility/adoption support
- Free financial coaching
- Health & wellness program and discounts
- Professional development & training
- Free beer!
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
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Soft Skills
analytical abilitiesprioritizationattention to detailself-startersense of urgencycommitment to taskaccountabilitycross-functional collaborationcommunicationproblem-solving