What are the responsibilities and job description for the Core Planning Analyst position at Caliber Collision Centers?
Service Center
CSCS TX
Job Profile Summary
This position supports the Capacity and Production Planning area by managing data related to the Sales & Operations process. The consistency and accuracy of this data is crucial since it guides the integrated sales & operations plan for the entire organization.
Job Profile Description
The Sales & Operations Business Analyst must be a positive change agent that will support Caliber's capacity planning process to optimize value chain relationships across the company's 4 business units comprising of over 1,200 service centers. The Analyst analyzes reported demand from several sources internal & external, including but not limited to statistical forecasts, market information, customer forecasts, historical trends and known new and lost business. This role will be responsible for a crafting a demand plan that effectively characterizes future customer demand allowing for immediate production success, timely production to service customer needs, and limiting cost of variance.
Essential Skills :
Power Bi / DAX
SQL Query Optimization
Excel
Data Visualization
Microsoft Fabric experience is a plus
Report Design / Development / Deployment
Report Maintenance and Troubleshooting
Attention to detail
Problem-Solving
Time Management
Great Communication Skills
Essential Job Duties
Develop baseline forecasts and demand plans across the Businesses.
Analyze capacity activities to help drive business decisions relative to improving service level, efficiency, and customer service via streamlining processes and cost saving projects.
Interpret and functionally design capacity planning solutions across various systems.
Prepare monthly S&OP deck using cross functional input and facilitate S&OP meetings.
Research current environment, analyze information, and provide sound solutions to complex business issues.
Develop business requirements for resolving issues, new enhancements, and new applications.
Review and update dashboards to provide transparency and single source of truth across functional areas to ensure alignment and optimal results.
Leverage industry best practices and continuous improvement to enhance S&OP process.
Continually analyze existing business processes to identify opportunities for improvement.
Provide support to business owners and users regarding business processes; support internal relationships with Supply Chain, Strategic Accounts, Talent Acquisition, and Field Operations to create functional requirements.
Research business issues to identify potential problems that need to be raised to the S&OP audience. This may include deep dive analysis of specific topics or areas of concern.
Document business processes.
Assist in the development and on-going refinement of KPIs, analytics, and reporting capabilities.
Skills / Requirements
Bachelor's degree in Business, Supply Chain Management, or Data; or equivalent combination of education, experience and training that provides the required knowledge and skills.
Minimum 2 to 4 years of experience with enterprise systems and / or S&OP in a role as a functional business analyst.
Interviewing skills, to talk with individuals and groups about their needs and ask the right questions to surface essential requirements information.
Listening skills, to understand what people say and to detect what they might be hesitant to say.
Analytical skills, to critically evaluate the information gathered from multiple resources, reconcile conflicts, decompose high-level information into details, abstract up from low-level information to a more general understanding, distinguish presented user requests from the underlying true needs, and distinguish solution ideas from requirements.
Facilitation skills, to lead requirements workshops.
Observational skills, to validate data obtained via other techniques and expose new areas of opportunity.
Writing skills, to communicate information effectively to customers.
Organizational skills, to work with the vast array of information gathered and analysis and to cope with rapidly changing information.
Interpersonal skills, to help negotiate priorities and to resolve conflicts among project stakeholders.
MS Office skills required.
Proficient in SQL.
Advanced skills using data analytics tools (Fabric, Python, R, Power BI and / or Tableau).
Keep a pulse on the job market with advanced job matching technology.
If your compensation planning software is too rigid to deploy winning incentive strategies, it’s time to find an adaptable solution.
Compensation Planning
Enhance your organization's compensation strategy with salary data sets that HR and team managers can use to pay your staff right.
Surveys & Data Sets
What is the career path for a Core Planning Analyst?
Sign up to receive alerts about other jobs on the Core Planning Analyst career path by checking the boxes next to the positions that interest you.
