Analyst- SC Analytics- Demand Planning

JOB DESCRIPTION

COMPANYDETAILS

Name:General Mills India Center

Address:Powai, Mumbai

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EMPLOYMENTINFORMATION

Job Title:Supply Chain Analytics-Analyst

Reports to:Demand Planning MOP

Job Location:Mumbai

JobHours:1:30pm - 10:30pm

JOBPROFILE

Supply chain analytics groupis respo nsible fordelivering the solutions and developing the capabilities which enables better decision-making in supply chain. This team works closely withplan pillars of supply chain,businessunitsand other cross functional partners for developing solutions to drive business value.

This team also drives step-change innovation and improvements in business practices by delivering actionabledemandinsights through advanced analytics and supply chainexpertise.

The purpose of the job is to support Demand planning function by providing Innovative solutions and help implementing it to optimize/Standardize processes which will bring improvement to overall forecasting approach resulting in better accuracy. Explore and take up opportunities which supports the demand planning efforts by creating and executing industry standard approaches.

RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES

• Understand different forecasting models,analyze forecasting outputs, and prepare final analysisof changereports for the stakeholders to understand the data analysis steps, enabling them to take important decisions based on various facts andinsights.

• Identify,analyzeand interpret patterns and trendsthrough descriptive analysisin complex data sets that could be helpful for diagnosis and prediction.

• Analyzing the different performance metrics(e.g. Accuracy,Biasetc.)andidentifying improvement opportunitiesthrough RCA in order to achieve business targets.

• Use automated tools(like Tableau Dashboards, GCPetc.)to extract data from primary and secondary sourcesusingSQL/PLSQL

• Constantly engage with stakeholders to ensure alignment indemandforecast.

• Coordinatewith technical/data science teams toidentifyprocess improvementopportunities,validateoutputs, proposemodification ifrequired.

QUALIFICATIONS / REQUIREMENTS

• Minimum of a bachelor's degree in Operational research, statistics, supplychainand any other relevant field

• 1-2years of experience in data analysis

• Working knowledge of data visualization software like Tableau/Power BI/Looker

• Basic knowledge of supply chain/CPG/Retail

• Familiar with forecasting techniques likeTime seriesmodels (Exponential smoothing/ARIMA) and other ML techniques

• Proficiencyin statistics and statisticaltoollike R/Python/Excel/SQLto be used for data setanalysis.

• Basic knowledgeof cloud environment like GCP/AWS/AZURE

• Having asystematic and logical approach to problem-solving

• StrongVerbal and written communication