Demand Planning Specialist

Talascend is currently seeking a Demand Planning Specialist for a long-term contract opportunity with our client in Plano, Texas.

Overview

The role involves managing supply chain management activities, communicating complex updates, and analyzing financial data to support decision-making and improve sales performance.

Responsibilities

• Manages SCM PSI activities including selling, sellout, inventory, WOS
• Communicates professional emails to account team, internal teams, and headquarters and articulates complex updates in simplified way
• Communicates face to face with account team, internal teams, and RPM teams
• Reports on product PSI status, understands and executes decisions based on two sets of numbers: internal set of numbers and customer corresponding set of numbers
• Strong awareness of sales activities, promotions in market, promotional performance, and costs
• Works closely with sales team and hold sales counterparts accountable, engages sales to drive improved sellout performance; deep understanding of numbers and ability to interpret sales results, drives actions and results
• Create and maintain financial analysis reports for NC team and its respective sales channel
• Analyze actual financial data; create and manage investment tracker for NC and sales channel
• Perform post-mortem analysis on promotions
• Respond to all NCME financial related requests and perform ad-hoc analysis as needed
• Liaison between NC team and financial management team to support financial related requests

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting or similar is preferred, however equivalent experience will also be considered
• Must have strong Excel skills
• 4+ years of experience and must have financial acumen and be highly analytical with strong attention to detail
• Top skills: Data Research & Analysis, Forecasting, Financial Modeling, Financial P&L Management

Requirements

• Strong analytical and Excel skills are a must
• High energy and ability to learn quickly
• Can work under varying work pressures, flexible and change environment
• Strong desire to work in highly collaborative environment
• Ability to influence strategies and make decisions using a data driven approach
• Ability to use a structured problem-solving approach in an ambiguous situation
• Plan, organize and prioritize multiple projects in a fast-paced environment
• Ability to synthesize complex business information and make professional business presentations
• Ability to establish and develop data models, scenario-based analysis, and other deep analytical approaches to solve business and sales problems
• Ability to work in a team environment, working against individual and shared objectives
• Ability to accept tasks and work to resolve problems, when only broad and general guidelines exist
• Develop and maintain excellent working relationships with all assigned levels within and outside the company
• Plan, organize, and prioritize multiple assignments and projects
• Demonstrated competency in both oral and written communication modes for both internal and external personnel at various levels
• Ability to collect and understand relevant market data and apply it to financial plan
• Work independently and in a team environment in order to achieve customer business objectives, personal and team goals and complete assignments within established time frames and specifications
• The ability to develop tasks and work assignments, based on sometime vaguely defined objectives
• May occasionally require working additional hours beyond normal schedule
• Under very little direct supervision with a high level of responsibility to apply general policies and guidelines where decisions are seldom monitored and consequences of decisions adversely affect operating results and management decisions

Shift

Fully onsite 




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