Sr. Manager of Demand Forecasting & Inventory Optimization

Oversees the demand planning and inventory optimization and control for TCHO. Designs forecasting models (time-series, predictive), collects and rationalizes against sales team and management forecasts, and optimizes and controls finished goods and raw materials inventory levels across warehouses locations. Presents results and summary to Sr. Management, continuously looking for optimization and efficiency improvements.

• Demand Forecasting
  • Create yearly, quarterly and monthly forecasts for TCHO’s products
  • Engage in ongoing communications with field sales and marketing in tandem with quantitative analyses to better understand and quantify demand forecast drivers
  • Enhance the process then collect and analyze unconstrained field sales forecasts
  • Analyze and calculate optimal SKU-level and raw materials inventory levels, safety stock and location
  • Monitors and manages inventory aging to minimize waste
• Contribute to Build Plan
  • Rationalize field sales forecasts against time-series forecasts, production capacity, and inventory levels (existing and target) to assist with output of a constrained build plan
  • Utilize constrained build plan to assist procurement in material acquisition planning and inventory management
• Business Review
  • Periodically report to Sr. Management the summarized forecast results, inventory levels, variances to plan, business driver explanations and optimization opportunities and challenges
• Optimize and Enhance
  • Continuously evaluate process and technology strengths and weaknesses to form recommendations for ongoing efficiency improvements
  • Ad hoc analyses to assist Sr. Management understanding and decision making

• Quantitative undergraduate or MBA degree preferred
• Minimum of 3-4 years relevant experience (supply and demand planning and inventory replenishment/planning) strongly preferred
• Quantitative education and/or background in time-series and predictive forecasting, process design, inventory optimization, and manufacturing operational efficiency/optimization
• Strong modeling experience (business and analytical modeling, spreadsheet modeling, data modeling and structuring concepts)
• Sr. Management facing reporting and data visualization experience