Demand Planning Analyst Jobs

Title :Operation Planning Analyst

Location : Remote

Duration : 6 + months Contract to Hire

The Operations Planning Analyst is responsible for building, managing and publishing strategic production plans for a defined region/s within the Retrieval Ops organisation in alignment with customer demand, pacing plans, client SLA’s and project yield requirements. In addition, the Analyst will be expected to be a leader of thought and execution to his/hers Operational Planning Analyst peers.

Prioritizes, determines tasks and leverages resources, implements improvements within planning process and models.

Must have experience:

·Demand Planning

·Forecasting

Duties and responsibilities:

·Reviews processes to determine any gaps between current outputs and expected requirements.

·Identifies conditions that contribute to gaps or key variances; explores relationships between conditions and outcomes; distinguishes causes from symptoms and identifies primary causes.

·Generates ideas for solutions; analyzes the potential effect or impact of each solution; selects appropriate solutions.

·Tests solutions; gathers feedback on effectiveness; reviews impact on baseline measures; modifies solutions as appropriate to ensure effectiveness.

·Provide leadership and derive actionable analytics from planning models, to help operators drive the day-to-day operations.

·Provide strong day-to-day operational management of planning models to support the Retrieval Ops organization.

·Works cross functionally within the CDAI organization (e.g. Retrieval Ops, Business Intelligence, Finance, and Client Success) to understand and properly capture customer demand at a project level and in alignment to pacing plans.

·Continuously assesses the retrieval operation to identify and plan for capacity constraints and operating levers.

·Responsible for delivery of thorough data driven production and/or capacity plans, which align the operation to meet customer demand and deliver projects in alignment with pacing plans.

·Responsible for owning, managing and maintaining, planning models for designated region/s withing the Retrieval Ops organization. Ensuring accuracy, traceability and governance of such models.

·Develop reporting and analytics to support root cause analysis and forward actions to improve production planning, service, and inventory performance.

·Present gap analysis, supported by detailed action plans, of production plans vs. actual Retrieval Ops performance.

·Ensure Production and/or Capacity plans are created and implemented for all projects, ensuring operators have the tools to execute effectively, on time and within budget.

·Lead weekly planning meetings with Operations within a region, to fine-tune and further enhance models that reflect operational throughput.

·Support Director in the development of long term strategic roadmaps for operational capacity, cost reduction and productivity improvements.

·Prepare management reports and present findings and recommendations.

·Identify areas of continuous improvement to further drive operational productivity within the capacity and production planning functions.

·Work with Continuous Improvement to identify, define, stand up and standardize planning processes across all regions and models.

·Demonstrates the highest level of ethics and integrity.

·Strong collaborative, and analytical skills.

·Proven experience managing and working with complex data sets, to derive business analytics.

·Ability to simplify complex information into what is relevant to each function (i.e. sales, customer service, finance, etc).

·Strong analytical skills and attention to detail.

·Ability to handle a dynamic and fast-moving environment with recurring deliverables and KPI targets.

·Strong technical capabilities, such as: expertise in excel, tableau, coding, data science, etc.

Required education and experience:

·A Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent is required.

·Minimum of 2 years in an Analyst role

·Strong analytical skills needed to prepare and analyze data to drive KPIs and process improvements within the department.

·Proficient with Microsoft Office Applications, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Publisher MS Project

·Must have excellent skills in: communication, organization and project management.

·Must be able to communicate effectively in the English language.

·Must be able to travel a minimum of 15% of the time (more travel may be required at times). Must have valid driver’s license.