Senior Specialist - Sales, Customers, Fi

The Senior SIOP Specialist is responsible for leading demand planning, forecast alignment, revenue risk mitigation, and analytics to support the Sales, Inventory, and Operations Planning (SIOP) process. This role serves as a key liaison between Sales, Customers, Finance, Operations, and Supply Chain to drive forecast accuracy, improve customer collaboration, and ensure achievement of FINPLAN revenue objectives. The position develops statistical forecasts, identifies demand risks and opportunities, drives proactive gap‑closure strategies, and leads cross‑functional discussions to align customer demand at both product family and finished‑goods specification levels.

The role leverages Kinaxis Rapid Response, SAP ERP, Power BI, and advanced Excel analytics to improve forecast reliability, inventory performance, customer service levels, and revenue attainment.

• Develop, maintain, and improve statistical demand forecasts utilizing historical demand, market trends, seasonality, customer forecasts, and demand drivers.
• Analyze forecast accuracy, forecast bias, forecast attainment, and demand variability to improve planning performance.
• Maintain forecasts at both product family and SKU / finished‑goods specification levels.
• Perform demand trend analysis using historical shipments, open orders, customer forecasts, and sales pipeline information.
• Develop demand scenarios and recommendations to support business decisions and revenue commitments.
• Partner with Sales and key customers to identify and close volume gaps.