Sr. Analyst Statistical Forecasting

Sr. Analyst Statistical Forecasting

Job Number :

2402128United States-Georgia-AtlantaLocation Type - Hybrid

Title : Senior Analyst, Statistical Forecasting

Department : Planning COE - Global Supply Chain (GSC)

Reports To : Senior Manager, Global Statistical Forecasting

Summary

The Senior Analyst, Statistical Forecasting plays a key role in developing a base line statistical forecast that serves as the starting point for the Category Demand Planner to build a consensus demand plan. A strong statistical forecast is the foundation of data driven, unbiased forecast that efficiently and accurately maintains a 24-month future forecast for the organization. This is a center led role that will manage statistical models, cleanse sales order history, and maintain life cycle data with a goal to maximize statistical forecast accuracy (WFA) and attainment for specified Product Categories, Segmentation Profiles and / or Regions. The Senior Analyst will partner with other Statistical Forecast team members, Segment Category Demand Planners, Sales, Category and Customer teams to gather the necessary information to maintain the models. They will leverage best practices, and analytics developed by the center led team (GSC) to manage by exception and focus on the sku’s with the most impact to WFA.

Specific Responsibilities

• Responsibility for specific Category and / or Segmentation profiles or Regions
• Manage and cleanse sales order history by identifying known outliers, and make model adjustments to improve the accuracy of a statistical model
• Leverage Life Cycle Management parameters such as end of life skus / dates, linking supersession sku’s, and new product introductions to build statistical history and drive stat forecast improvements
• Conduct demand analytics by reviewing statistical outliers, segmentation (ABC / XYZ) and perform WFA and bias reviews to manage by exception
• Tune statistical models by managing the algorithm assignments to each sku, classify history patterns, update model parameters
• Leverage Apollo for statistical model recommendations outside of IBP Demand options
• Generate a baseline statistical forecast and adjust based on downstream data such as POS, incoming sales orders, and category / customer intelligence
• Partner with customer and category teams to ensure statistical forecast solution effectively address the needs as well as provide any future business insights or learnings
• Lead continuous improvement activities including hypotheses development and test execution to drive both incremental as well as step-change performance improvements

Required Competencies

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Required Competencies

Experience

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