The Company

Our client is a global leader in consumer goods, producing food, hygiene, and personal care goods that supports a comfortable daily routine for millions of consumers. This company is driven by their purpose: to make sustainable living a commonplace. With more than 400 brands around the world, the prospects are endless.

Job Description

The Volume Forecast Data Analyst has the responsibility for the full-term volume demand forecast per cluster for the Benelux. In this role, the Volume Forecast Data Analyst will contribute to the standard business process (S&OP), in close cooperation with the Value Forecast Analyst, Supply chain Specialists and Sales.

Responsibilities

Demand Planning:

• Responsible for both base and promotional planning (0-18 months)

• Responsible for adjustments of the outcome of the promotional predictive model based on data analytics

• Responsible for KPI’s as Forecast Accuracy, Forecast Bias, exceptions and outliers

• Integrate top-down forecast... in bottom-up

Business partnering:

• Establish and maintain strong relationships

• Understand the dynamics of the business in order to communicate and distribute the correct information to the business (develop a high degree of business sense).

• Report to the Category Planning Lead

Working on improvement Projects:

• Help improving the predictive models by doing analysis on our forecast

• Build your own scripts that support teams, monitor the data quality in the systems or sends an automatic email to recipients that need to perform a task

• Visualize your projects with a visualization tool (e.g. PowerBI, Google Data Studio) to let the data speak and influence

Requirements

• Operational experience in either Supply Chain or Sales a pre

• Experience in the area of FMCG is preferred Subject to local consultation

Know how to work with visualization tools like PowerBI, Google Data Studio or Tableau

• Languages: fluent in Dutch is a pre, English a must

Other Information

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Rotterdam Netherlands

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