Job description
Our client, a professional hair color company is looking for a Jr Planner/Analyst to join their team!
- This will be a hybrid scheduled role (onsite 2-3 days a week)
- This role will be located in Encino, CA
Key Job Accountabilities
- Provide regular and ad-hoc analyses (e.g., in-month projections, anticipated account inventory buy-downs, etc.) to gain endorsement to the forecast at the Customer/Brand level, with a focus on Regular Flow Business, Promotions, and New Product Launches
- Bias and forecast accuracy to be maintained within a tolerance
- Drive meetings to alignment, using analysis and facilitation, and influencing skills
- Follow up with clear and accurate messaging of expected volumes, vulnerabilities and opportunities as well as underlying assumptions
- Provide continuous improvement to reporting (channel brand summaries automated to lower levels, streamlined in-month reporting and projections, etc.)
Education:
- A minimum of a bachelor’s degree in a related field
Experience & Job Requirements:
- A minimum of 2 years of forecasting or equivalent planning experience
- Good math and critical thinking skills required, as well as the ability to communicate at the appropriate level of detail or summarization, given the audience and objective
- Proven results running meetings where cross-functional decisions are needed and reached using analysis and facilitation skills
- Mid to advanced Excel skills
- Ability to extract data from a SQL server data cube and perform analysis
Desirable Criteria & Qualifications:
- Working knowledge of forecasting tool, preferably FuturMaster
- SAP ERP knowledge
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