The Senior Demand Planning/Forecasting Analyst is responsible for operating and improving the demand planning and forecasting for the F&B businesses from top line sales down to individual SKUs, ensuring the right products are available at the right time, minimizing stockouts and excess inventory.
Requirements
- Must be an expert within Excel and other Data Warehouse BI/Reporting Tools.
- Strong understanding of Data Warehouse views, cubes, etc.
- Knowledge of AI tooling a plus.
Responsibilities
- Pulling, formatting, analyzing, and presenting easily consumed data from multiple data sources will all be key aspects of the position.
- In-depth knowledge of data sources, data querying, trends analysis, Excel and building reports from scratch using a data warehouse and reporting tools will all be daily activities.
- Create forecasting tools and spreadsheets that can be regularly updated based on additional data and triggers.
- Continuous improvement of processes, tools, automation and accuracy of the models.
- Recommend technical changes to the data warehouse to provide the needed data.
- Statistical analysis and reporting related to related F&B operations.
- Custom report writing in Excel and other reporting tools.
Other
- Data Ownership and Stewardship of the information used to make forecasting decisions.
- Key member of the Demand Planning Team providing recommendations and new ways to look at the data to make better decisions.
- Preparation of executive summaries for management team in the form of dashboard, data graphing, and PowerPoint presentations.
- Afterhours work and special projects are expected as part of this position.
- Other duties as assigned.
- Must have 3+ years of hands-on Demand Planning/Forecasting in the Restaurant and/or F&B space.
- Must be capable of working in fast-paced, self-directed, and changing environment and must have the ability to meet strict deadlines.
