Retail Partner Supply Chain Analyst

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What you’ll be doing...

Collaborate with internal & external stakeholders to develop and drive continuous improvement in the efficiency and accuracy of the collaborative planning, forecasting and replenishment processes within assigned National Retail partner Walmart.  In this role, you will drive the “end to end” forecasting and replenishment process; ensuring internal controls are in place to develop and deliver forecasted products through our fulfillment centers and forward logistics to meet retailer designated SLA requirements.

Schedule and participate in synchronization meetings with Sales, Finance, Supply Chain Management and assigned retail partners to track variance between the company's sales forecast and retail partner's forecast to drive CPFR efficiency.

Responsibilities:

• Developing and maintaining performance-based store tiering/segmentation, as well as allocation and disposition processes.
• Collaborating with a third party fulfillment center for inventory availability and liaison between fulfillment center and retailer to ensure compliance for on time order shipment.
• Creating strategies and tracking KPI performance to drive continuous improvement against JBP objectives (e.g. forecast accuracy, hit rate, days on hand, IS/OSA, OTIF)
• Designing, maintaining, and automating KPI dashboards by leveraging internal systems retailer portals.
• Driving analysis of sales, financial and operational performance data (e.g., modeling, predictive analytics) to identify key insights and opportunities to improve forecast accuracy.
• Collaborating to build the sales and shipment forecast.
• Aligning forecast assumptions in support of special events (e.g. new product launches, MOD transitions, marquee events)
• Managing gaps between customer POs and retail forecasts.
• What we’re looking for...
• You are a problem solver-—someone who looks to find ways to be more efficient in every corner and who sees every obstacle as a puzzle to be solved. Not only are you a Grade A planner and organizer, but you know how to engage a diverse team, set clear standards, remove barriers, and ensure accountability. You’re no stranger to tight timelines and competing priorities. And you’re a superb communicator, able to interpret data in a relevant way, translate complex technical specifications into concrete requirements, and encourage and equip everyone around you to make sound decisions and do their best work.
• You’ll need to have: Bachelor's degree or four or more years of work experience.
• Three or more years of relevant experience required, demonstrated through work experience and/or military experience.
• Experience in operations, demand planning, replenishment, outbound supply chain, and/or a relevant analytics role.
• Forecasting experience using a variety of methods to advise future-state planning.
• Willingness to travel approximately up to 25%.
• Even better if you have one or more of the following: Team-oriented and strong interpersonal capabilities; ability to build relationships (internal/external) and interact effectively with other departments and levels of business affecting the forecast process.
• Excellent analytical skills and ability to multitask.
• Process-oriented and ability to contribute to continuous improvement.
• Experience with aggregating and summarizing large amounts of historical data and identifying trends or business opportunities.
• SQL Expertise.
• Advanced knowledge of Power BI and Query.
• Mastery of MS Excel required - VBA preferred.
• Knowledge of data warehousing.
• Retail, E-com, or startup experience.
• Statistical modeling (Linear Regression/K-means).
• Strong leadership skills and outgoing personality.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
• If Verizon and this role sound like a fit for you, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every “even better” qualification listed above.
• Where you’ll be working
• In this hybrid role, you'll have a defined work location that includes working from home and a minimum of three days per week in the office, which will be set by your manager. Employees are responsible for maintaining compliance with hybrid work policies.
• Scheduled Weekly Hours
• 40
• Equal Employment Opportunity
• Verizon is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to veteran status, disability or other legally protected characteristics.