Ahold Delhaize USA is a partner company providing supply chain services for grocery brands. The Forecast Analyst II will manage system demand forecasts for a wide range of products and collaborate closely with various teams to ensure forecast accuracy and support procurement strategies.
Responsibilities
- Responsible for ensuring Forecast & Replenishment (F&R) system forecast accuracy for assigned product line
- Use advanced statistical forecast accuracy analysis to reduce system errors and avoid manual forecast adjustments
- Resolve forecasting exceptions and perform daily root cause analysis of underlying issues to improve forecast accuracy for promotional and turn product
- Manage all Relex (F&R system) daily, weekly, monthly forecast workflows resulting in reduced systemic forecast error
- Partner with In Stock Analysts and Demand System Specialists to align on trends and strategies in support of forecast accuracy
- Provide a forecast to vendor partners (private brands team)
- Complete sales correction trouble shooting and analyze where the effective corrected sales are coming from when necessary, i.e. which sales correction type is the effective one (stockout, campaign or manual correction)
- Collaborate with Category teams on Ad promotions, special programs, and holidays
- Review Store and Distribution Center baseline forecasts and BIAS and troubleshoot any forecasts with low forecast accuracy or BIAS
- Review and, if necessary, update master data and/or parameters for Product that will be terminated
- Follow-up on and review the forecast for new store locations
- Additional job duties may be assigned as needed to meet the needs of the business and support our values
Skills
- Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics or related business field or equivalent relevant work experience
- 0-3 Years relevant experience
- Demand management practices
- Intermediate to advanced Microsoft Excel and Access
- Working knowledge of Supply Chain processes
- Oral and written communication skills
- Basic to intermediate Excel skills
- Presentation skills
- Experience applying and developing statistical forecasts and demand forecasting
- Attention to detail
- Team player and collaborator
- Strong Mathematical and Statistical aptitude
- Ability to analyze and decipher large amounts of data
- Ability to analyze complex problems and rule sets
- Strong critical thinker, autonomous decision-maker
- Ability to determine root causes and implement solutions
- Customer focus
- Takes initiative, self-starter
Company Overview
Ahold Delhaize USA provides retail media solutions for brands to advertise to grocery shoppers across ADUSA brands using data-driven tools. It was founded in undefined, and is headquartered in Salisbury, North Carolina, USA, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is https://www.adusa.com.
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