Sr. Demand Analyst

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Proactively manage the Sales Demand Planning lifecycle, identifying backlog risks and past-due orders early to protect customer service levels and revenue targets.
• Lead high-level cross-functional forecasting reviews and represent product families in planning meetings to synthesize a unified, consensus-based demand plan in partnership with Sales, Service, Production, Purchasing…
• Demonstrated ability to bring structure to ambiguous data and establish baseline best practices where standard operating procedures are still evolving.
• Own the demand consolidation process and demand loading into ERP
• Define, calculate, and manage safety stock levels for various products using best practice standards, balancing inventory investment against product availability.
• Manage end-to-end ERP data integrity for demand plans, troubleshooting MRP issues, and maintaining comprehensive Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for all planning activities.
• Partner with Supply Chain, Engineering, and Operations to manage the product lifecycle, including buffer strategies, for complex hardware components, and end-of-life (EOL) products.
• Proactively audits sales forecasts, historical trends, and inventory signals to challenge weak assumptions rather than accepting data at face value

Job requirements

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Business Analytics, Industrial Engineering, Statistics, or related quantitative field required.
• Technical Proficiency: Advanced data modeling capabilities (e.g., complex Excel functions, SQL/Python a plus, statistical baseline forecasting methods;
• Analytical rigor / Data/ problem solving skills. Self-directed builder who enjoys refining immature processes into standardized best practices.
• Soft Skills: Strong executive presence, with the ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders and distill complex data into actionable leadership briefings.