Consumer Goods, Food and Beverage, Supply ChainIndustries
Requirements
Bachelor’s degree
At least 5 years of supply chain experience
Strong analytical, organizational, decision making, and presentation skills
Advanced skills in data handling and manipulation, analytics (Spotfire a plus), and forecasting/inventory management experience
Project experience with exposure to project management concepts and principles
Strong interpersonal skills to effectively interact with all teams, areas and levels of business affecting the planning process
Ability to develop and recommend process, system improvements
Limited travel required
Responsibilities
Identify business needs and gaps - Coordinate with IS project managers to implement test plans to validate system enhancements and meet project deadlines
Consult with Business Subject Matter Experts to document existing processes, research best practices and propose future enhancements / continuous improvement
Facilitate User Acceptance testing on functional design for all enhancements within system integration
Develop training materials for key users on system enhancements within supply and demand
Governance of consistent planning processes and facilitate training to key users on system enhancements
Support planning system data maintenance and set up to ensure accurate and reliable planning
Conduct Demand Planning Analytics – Forecast Value Add and Coefficient of Variation analysis on Demand Hierarchy across all businesses
Maintain existing analytics and develop new analytical tools to support planning team objectives
Support the software and analytics used by Demand, Supply and Inventory Planning for all business within The J.M. Smucker Company
Support the software integration within Logility Demand Optimization, Blue Yonder Enterprise Supply Planning, Blue Yonder Sequencing and E2Open
Act as a key liaison to IS on implementation of new functional design, validate new functionality, and train users within planning