Job Description

Job Summary Responsibilities:

• Categorise products to determine synergies and reaction to external conditions (variables)
• Determine disaggregate and aggregate levels and factors
• Classify events
• Identify and mark all events with an impact on volume/price/daily operations
• Group and classify events by finding similarities between events
• Set parameters and guidelines for Demand Planners to apply in forecasting
• Determine statistical forecast methods to be used
• Determine the monthly, weekly and daily methods to be used
• Analyse different forecast errors per method and set parameters to measure the accuracy of the statistical method used
• Improve methods and errors on an ongoing basis
• Improve the forecasting process in terms of data cleansing for budget, monthly, weekly & daily forecasts
• Compile, update, refresh and distribute reports
• Compile performance graphs
• Distribute the weekly gap analysis between actual vs. budget, volume & MOM by customer and by product category
• Compile management reports
• Distribute weekly short supply analysis
• Create reporting & automated system alerts to proactively identify forecast exceptions
• Identify and analyse outliers
• Determine outlier band per product category/group, per time series
• Identify per time series for outliers
• Determine the cause of the outliers
• Assist with the creation of best in class processes to improve forecast accuracy
• Analyse short supplies and set parameters for improvement

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree
• Business English: Fluent
• Code 08 driver's license
• Travel off-site/overnight stay
• Computer literacy (intermediate)
• Working with senior management
• Strong analytical skills
• Effective communication skills

Competencies:

• Coach and develop people
• Solves problems through effective decision making
• Clear and sound reasoning ability
• Pro-active and action orientated (shows initiative)
• Brings a strategic contribution
• Leads and drives change for improvement
• Customer orientated
• Thinks and reasons logically
• Communicates effectively
• Ability to plan and organize
• Ability to apply numerical principles

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