[Hiring] Demand Planning Analyst @Minor Figures

Role Description

The Demand Planning Analyst supports the sales, finance and operations teams in demand, sales, trade and revenue forecasting for Minor Figures North American (MF NAM), and enables the team with various sales and operations support. They will input, update, monitor and analyze data that enables the sales team to increase topline revenue, while improving forecast accuracy to improve demand and supply planning. The role actively engages internal team members on initiatives, works with external data-management partners, and will outreach specific distributors as needed to ensure 100% order fulfillment.

This role demands:

• Incredible attention to detail
• An obsession with numbers
• The ability to work as part of multiple teams and independently
• A desire and ability to learn systems and processes quickly
• Initiative to proactively improve systems
• Strong problem-solving skills
• A commitment to keep work moving against key deadlines
• The skills to adapt to ever-changing business requirements

This role requires residence in states located in Mountain Standard Time (CST) or Central Standard Time (CST).

Qualifications

• Experience building bottoms-up forecasts (strongly preferred)
• Experience with Modus, SAP IBP, Logility, o9, Blue Yonder, or other demand planning software (strongly preferred)
• Strong commercial acumen, preferably in CPG, grocery, or coffee (strongly preferred)
• Experience with grocery forecasting and/or trade spend (strongly preferred)
• Experience with UNFI and KeHE (preferred)
• Experience working with a trade promotion management or trade spend management tool (preferred)
• Experience navigating and building reports via SPINS and Nielsen (preferred)
• Deep knowledge of Google Sheets: pivot tables and VLOOKUPS are your baseline
• Self-motivation to complete required work autonomously while proactively optimizing systems and processes
• Strong attention to detail and ability to manage multiple deadlines and deliverables
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to identify issues, determine root cause, and drive solutions
• Ability to collaborate cross-functionally and engage the right stakeholders to keep work moving
• Ability to create ad hoc reporting and demand-planning models
• Demonstrated ability to manage a recurring planning calendar, meet deadlines consistently, and proactively follow up to keep deliverables moving

Requirements

• Support Sales, Operations and Finance teams through the monthly S&OP process by ensuring forecasts, pipeline reporting, promotional plans and demand assumptions are accurately maintained and communicated
• Serve as the primary administrator for forecasting workflows, reporting files, and forecast governance processes

Benefits

• Health, Dental, Vision and Life Insurance plans
• 15 days vacation, 14 days paid holiday
• Employee share options scheme, available to all full-time employees
• 1 day paid leave to support a cause of your choice through volunteering or activism
• 401(k) retirement plan with company match
• Paid Parental leave policy
• Flexible working to meet the needs of the role
• Access to the Calm app
• Flexible CoWorking Spaces across the US

Your Commitment

This role requires residence in states located in Mountain Standard Time (CST) or Central Standard Time (CST). Work schedules are flexible, but in general hours of work will be 9:00am – 5:00pm. This position may need to be available for extended hours at the end of each month and the fiscal quarter. This role may also need to be flexible to accommodate calls across the US in different time zones, and on occasion be free for calls with our UK-based team.

Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

At Minor Figures everyone is welcome. We are committed to cultivating and maintaining a culture that is inclusive and diverse. We celebrate differences and continually support all members of our company to be proud of who they are. In recruiting for our team, we pride ourselves on equal employment opportunities regardless of gender, sex, age, disability, race, religion, sexuality or social class. We hire the best people based on an evaluation of their abilities and effectiveness, nothing else.

What’s Next

You’re sold? The coffee is brewing, you’re ready to hit send and sit back and wait for a response? In order to make that happen:

• Submit a Resume
• Tell us why you want to work with us at Minor Figures