myfrido - Demand Planner (2-7 yrs)
Key Responsibilities:
- Monitors and communicates forecasts, changes, inventory estimates, supply situations, business risks and opportunities across all warehouses on a periodic basis. Identify areas of alert and create solutions to mitigate any potential risks of product stock outs.
- Analyze, track and highlight the performance of defined category/SKUs. Developing deployment plan which meets anticipated customer demand at optimum inventory levels. Takes joint responsibility with warehousing teams for inventory accountability.
- Ability to create rolling forecasting & future projections and is able estimate future product demand by analyzing inventory flow and developing forecast models.
- Ability to work independently to construct complex statistical models to forecast business performance.
- Identify and analyze sales trends and influencing variables and incorporate analysis in forecasting & inventory planning.
- Partnering with Vendors/ internal stakeholders/ factory production/, sourcing to identify and reconcile gaps and supply shortages, providing an early warning system for issues identification
- Coordinate with the concerned Procurement teams regarding any category updates in the demand management processes, analyze and highlight gaps in the forecast.
What we're looking for:
- Hands-on experience in demand forecasting, coupled with strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
- 2-4 years of experience in demand forecasting.
- B.Tech graduate or MBA from reputed institution.
- Strong interpersonal skills and ability to work across departments
