Demand Planning Analyst
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Demand Planning Analyst forecasting Minor Figures’ plant-based beverage sales across North America. Managing Modus forecasts, S&OP reporting, trade spend, and cross-functional planning.
Responsibilities:
- Support sales, finance and operations teams in demand, sales, trade and revenue forecasting for Minor Figures North America
- Input, update, monitor and analyze data to increase topline revenue and improve forecast accuracy
- Engage internal team members, work with external data-management partners, and contact distributors as needed to ensure 100% order fulfillment
- Maintain and input sales and trade forecasting data in Modus and own system updates and outputs for monthly, quarterly and annual forecasts
- Participate in weekly sales updates to identify revenue gaps and opportunities
- Lead monthly forecast review meetings with sales leads and identify sales gaps
- Own the monthly Demand Review process, including reporting preparation, meeting facilitation, documentation of forecast changes, and publication of the Rolling Latest Estimate
- Build and distribute Retailer Forecast Performance, Customer DC Forecast Performance, Pipeline Review and Rolling LE reports for monthly S&OP
- Build and distribute sales reports and improve reporting systems and outputs
- Manage SPINS, Nielsen and other customer and consumption-data portals
- Update pipeline reporting tools via the CRM platform
- Own weekly Modus actuals uploads, invalid connection management, forecast snapshots and master data monitoring
- Compare On-Premise distributor chargebacks against forecast and update systems to improve customer-investment planning accuracy
- Monitor and track distributor spend and support customer-investment budgets
- Ensure approved investments are reflected in Modus and the demand plan
- Maintain promotion, trade-spend and customer-investment forecasting inputs in Modus
- Incorporate promotional activity, trade spend and customer investment assumptions into the demand plan
- Meet with the external trade management partner to identify gaps and optimization opportunities
- Support Sales, Operations and Finance through the monthly S&OP process
- Administer forecasting workflows, reporting files and forecast governance processes
- Collaborate with sales and finance teams; report to the Senior Planning Manager
Requirements:
- Residence in states located in Mountain Standard Time or Central Standard Time
- Experience building bottoms-up forecasts (strongly preferred)
- Experience with Modus, SAP IBP, Logility, o9, Blue Yonder, or other demand planning software (strongly preferred)
- Strong commercial acumen, preferably in CPG, grocery, or coffee (strongly preferred)
- Experience with grocery forecasting and/or trade spend (strongly preferred)
- Experience with UNFI and KeHE (preferred)
- Experience working with a trade promotion management or trade spend management tool (preferred)
- Experience navigating and building reports via SPINS and Nielsen (preferred)
- Deep knowledge of Google Sheets; pivot tables and VLOOKUPS are baseline
- Self-motivation to complete required work autonomously while proactively optimizing systems and processes
- Strong attention to detail and ability to manage multiple deadlines and deliverables
- Strong problem-solving skills and ability to identify issues, determine root cause, and drive solutions
- Ability to collaborate cross-functionally and engage stakeholders
- Ability to create ad hoc reporting and demand-planning models
- Demonstrated ability to manage a recurring planning calendar, meet deadlines consistently, and proactively follow up
- Flexible availability for extended hours at month-end and fiscal quarter-end, calls across US time zones, and occasional calls with the UK-based team
- Submit a resume and explain why you want to work with Minor Figures
Benefits:
- Health, Dental, Vision and Life Insurance plans
- 15 days vacation
- 14 days paid holiday
- Employee share options scheme, available to all full time employees
- 1 day paid leave to support a cause of your choice through volunteering or activism
- 401(k) retirement plan with company match
- Paid Parental leave policy
- Flexible working to meet the needs of the role
- Access to the Calm app
- Flexible CoWorking Spaces across the US
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