About this role
Are you ready to take the next step in your career? Join us for an exciting opportunity at Albertsons Companies, where innovation and customer service go hand-in-hand!
At Albertsons Companies, we are looking for someone who’s not just seeking a job, but someone who wants to make an impact. In this role, you’ll have the opportunity to lead, innovate, and contribute to the growth of a company that values great service and lasting customer relationships. This position offers the chance to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment that’s constantly evolving.
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What you will be doing
The Demand Planner (forecasting & analysis) manages statistical, promotional, and total forecasts to drive retail in stock conditions and optimized inventory levels. The Planner determines causal factors impacting forecasts and actuals including weather, moving seasons, etc. The Demand Planner Owns/adjusts/optimizes the promotional lift as well as the instruments that continue lift generation. The Demand Planner will train a demand planning team, assisting them with daily and weekly tasks designed to guide Replenishment to the appropriate purchasing decisions needed to support the United business.
Main responsibilities:
- Recognizes and reconciles JDA forecast exceptions and tunes forecasts as needed.
- Tracks actuals against forecast & reviews forecast accuracy (base and promo) and tunes forecast as needed.
- Reviews demand history for outliers and develop recommendations and manage JDA settings related to outliers.
- Manages new demand forecasting units and new product introduction processes
- Manages end of life forecasts.
- Manages new and conversion store forecasts.
- Maintains key metrics against goals for forecast accuracy.
- Follows prescriptive "day in the life" matrix to assure processes and procedures are followed.
- Generates/analyzes forecast accuracy and performance reports.
- Reviews and resolves exceptions.
- Reviews modeling exceptions related to price and vehicle lift coefficients and related data issues.
- Reviews promotional forecast including promo quantities and forecast accuracy.
- Analyzes post promotional data to determine opportunities to improve future forecasts.
- Collaborates with replenishment planners, retail support and other business partners to achieve key performance indicators.
- Generates appropriate views of the forecast to facilitate cross-functional communication.
- Drives to continuously improve the Demand Planning process and resulting forecast accuracy.
- Perform market review for recent trends and recommend best practices
- Act as a change champion for best practices and process adoption
- Track’s team performance of Key Performance Indicators (KPI's)
- Review KPI's with Demand Planners
- Provide guidance and direction to Demand Planners for Collaboration meetings with Merchandise and Replenishment Teams.
We are looking for candidates who possess the following:
- Bachelor's degree in supply chain, finance, mathematics, business or related field or equivalent work experience.
- 0 -10+ years of progressive relevant data management experience, with specific experience in Demand Planning management, Sales/Marketing, Supply Chain data management or business data management. Grocery Retail or Food & Beverage industry experience preferred
- Managerial experience optional, but strongly advised
- Strong understanding of statistics. Articulate how items are performing relative to business targets while defining what actions need to be taken to improve performance.
- Required knowledge and experience in JDA Demand & Fulfillment supporting Albertsons Companies.
- Supply chain experience in an established wholesale environment grocery, consumer packaged goods, or retail experience preferred.
- Strong mathematical, statistical skills, and analytical skills.
- Core strength in forecasting concepts, principles, and best practices.
- Business perspective and correlation of functional role to business financial metrics.
- Drives results through developing solutions.
- Owns performance results/ accountability.
- Strong collaborator and influencer; can impact results across organizational teams.
- Communication excellence; able to synthesize findings and influence action; proactive.
- Foundational understanding of Albertsons's business strategy, financials and the value proposition to all members.
- Understands operational tradeoffs and makes decisions that positively impact all three factors.
- Strong understanding of how current role impacts Albertsons's key financial metrics.
- Sets targets that align to company level KPI's and identifies ways to continuously improve performance without negatively impacting other key metrics.
- Drives results through the development of solutions rather than solely focusing on problems; takes accountability for performance results and works with others to improve results in areas that he/she has indirect control over; owns performance results in positive or negative situations and communicates actions plans to key stakeholders.
- Knows own strengths and weaknesses and has developed ways to leverage strengths and compensate for or develop areas of weakness; regularly and proactively seeks feedback and takes action in response to it; actively seeks challenging opportunities to stretch and learn.
- Strong relationship builder, works well with a team and multiple departments
- Strong communication skills, communicating to various levels within the company and able to summarize business results in executive summaries.
- Drive results by helping a team accomplish KPI's.
- Travel requirements: Up to 25%
We also provide a variety of benefits including:
- Competitive wages paid weekly
- Associate discounts
- Health and financial well-being benefits for eligible associates (Medical, Dental, 401k and more!)
- Time off (vacation, holidays, sick pay). For eligibility requirements please visit myACI Benefits
- Leaders invested in your training, career growth and development
- An inclusive work environment with talented colleagues who reflect the communities we serve
Pay Transparency:
Starting rates will be no less than the local minimum wage and may vary based on things like location, experience, qualifications, and the terms of any applicable collective bargaining agreement. Candidates with unique qualifications may be considered for compensation above this range. Dependent on length of service, hours worked, any applicable collective bargaining agreement and/or Company policy, benefits may include medical, dental, vision, disability and life insurance, sick pay, PTO/Vacation pay, paid holidays*, bereavement pay and retirement benefits (pension and/or 401(k) eligibility). Associates in this position may be eligible for a quarterly bonus, subject to Company bonus plans. Applications are accepted on an on-going basis.
*For roles in Washington State: Sick pay and PTO/Vacation pay are accrued based on hours worked and paid holidays are issued at 7-9 days annually.
Other facts
About Albertsons Companies
Albertsons Companies is one of the largest food and drug retailers in the United States, with over 2,200 stores in 34 states and the District of Columbia. Our well-known banners include Albertsons, Safeway, Vons, Jewel-Osco, Shaw's, Acme, Tom Thumb, Randalls, United Supermarkets, Pavilions, Star Market, Haggen, Carrs, Kings Food Markets, and Balducci's Food Lovers Market. We support our stores with 22 distribution centers and 19 manufacturing plants.
Our 285,000 associates have a passion for great service and building lasting relationships with our customers. Through a companywide focus on innovation, we are continually enhancing our digital and product offerings, making it easy for customers to get what they need, wherever they are.
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What you'll do
- The Demand Planner manages statistical, promotional, and total forecasts to optimize inventory levels and drive retail in-stock conditions. They also train a demand planning team and collaborate with various business partners to achieve key performance indicators.
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