Business Planner
| Company | Clorox |
|---|---|
| Location | Oakland, CA, USA, Pleasanton, CA, USA, Alpharetta, GA, USA |
| Salary | $73900 – $165900 |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | Bachelor’s |
| Experience Level | Senior |
Requirements
- 5+ years of industry experience, CPG / fast moving consumer preferred
- BA or equivalent in Engineering, Supply Chain, Data Science, or Predictive Analytics
- Recent S&OP / demand planning experience
- Deep experience in statistical modeling / predictive analytics
- Experience interfacing across multiple functions
- IBP System Knowledge required
- Rapid Response Knowledge required
- Strong communication and presence
- Forward-looking strategic thinking: Ability to synthesize disparate data into coherent, forward-looking business strategy and tactics for advancing business priorities, with manager support
- Analytics / data mastery: Strong data science / analytical skillset, including:
- In depth understanding how a forecast model works, strengths / pitfalls of the ML model and the core elements of the model predictivity
- Able to analyze and diagnose core forecast drivers and understand impact on forecast with Iris tools
- High fluency / dexterity in working with data
- Ability to recognize trends within data and translate into forecast narrative
- Technical Aptitude: Demonstrated proficiency in using Kinaxis or similar demand planning tools
- Customer operations: Understanding of both customer operations, with capacity to understand, explain, and reconcile demand drivers and how they interact to drive the business
- Supply chain operations: Strong foundation in supply chain network management and operations
Responsibilities
- Develops the demand plan by leveraging the Integrated Business Planning (IBP) process and synthesizes key insights and trade-offs to align with business unit objectives
- Leverages and develop demand forecast for a subset of the BU, incorporating in GM and functional feedback and adjusts as needed to arrive at an integrated and accurate plan
- Assesses and pressure tests key forecast drivers, seeking a deep understanding demand forecast driver attribution and their influence the forecast, risks, and opps.
- Give input to Business Planning Manager on BU LEDP narrative, proactively identifying key forecast tensions, tradeoffs, and decisions needed for discussion in LEDP & Scenario Selection Meeting and GM Signoff Meeting
- Based on direction from Business planning manager, drives scenario analysis, leveraging IBP Scenario Mgr. tool, identifying impact of changing demand drivers (e.g. pricing, promo, mktg, and dist.) based on business acumen
- Analyzes demand forecast impact of different risk / opportunity scenarios
- Provide input on framing and strategy development against most likely impactful scenarios, in alignment with IBP Lead / Mgr. and BU LT
- Conducts proactive cross-functional outreach to understand forecast and key drivers, extract business insights, understand risks & opportunities, correctly incorporate adjustments to lock DP scenario
- Support in input review & validation
- Provides feedback to the IBP hub on Iris tool functionality
- Actively foster and contribute to a community of like practitioners
Preferred Qualifications
- Preference: Experience in a customer-facing role