What are the responsibilities and job description for the Demand Planning Analyst position at Giant Food?
Category/Area of Expertise: Merchandising
Job Requisition: 408002_external_USA-MD-Hyattsville
Address: USA-MD-Hyattsville-8301 Professional Place Ste115
Store Code: Fresh - Brands (5148836)
Who Is Giant?
With over 2 million weekly customers and annual sales topping $5 billion, Giant is the #1 grocer in the Baltimore-Washington area. What began as one store on Georgia Avenue in Washington D.C. in 1936, now has grown to over 160 stores spanning across D.C., Maryland, Virginia and Delaware.
Giant's mission is beyond stocking groceries on shelves, we strive to be the most trusted and loved local food retailer in our community.
Position Summary:
This position is responsible for collaborating with leadership team in the implementation of a selling organization culture with a consumer-centric focus through the Demand Planning Analyst responsibilities. Business expert to develop, implement, and manage the Forecasting and Replenishment (F&R) System's forecasting capabilities. Provides guidance and acts as a key contributor for strategic demand planning practices that support our banner strategies, inventory targets, and collective supply chain objectives. Collects, merges, and shares pertinent information to create a single, unified demand forecast within the F&R System. Applies seasoned in-depth knowledge of industry forecasting processes and methods. Identifies drivers through root cause analysis of forecast variances, then quantifies and implements updates to complex forecasting systems and processes. Utilizes exception-based analysis and forecast accuracy results to drive sales growth, maximize inventory investment, and enable business process improvement.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities:
Qualifications and Experience:
Skills and Abilities:
Pay Range: $78,600 - $125,760
Why Work at Giant?
At Giant, we love what we do, and make it easy for you to love it, too! Every day, we build on our over 80-year legacy of innovation, quality, and value and hard work to keep our top spot in the market and with our customers. The most important part of that? Our people.
Giant's thousands of associates in our stores, distribution centers and corporate headquarters have one thing in common: the opportunity to advance their career. We proudly hire and promote from our own ranks, offering opportunities to learn and advance, take trainings and earn degrees, serve our communities, receive recognition for their work and have a career, not just a job.
We proudly host Business Resource Groups ( BRGs) - six voluntary employee-led groups that help build community and are aligned with our mission, values, goals, business practices and objectives. The BRGs programming is designed to support their members and our associates through social activity, volunteering and professional development opportunities.
Our mission is to provide convenient ways for our customers to prepare meals for moments that matter most through meal solutions, recipe inspiration, time-saving services like pickup and delivery and beyond. Giant also values being a better neighbor. One way we support our neighbors is by providing donations and charitable efforts to our local partners that support our main charitable causes.
We'd love for you to become part of the Giant family and join us in our journey of being a Better Place to Work, a Better Place to Shop and a Better Neighbor - because, after all, our people truly make us Giant.
Job Requisition: 408002_external_USA-MD-Hyattsville
Address: USA-MD-Hyattsville-8301 Professional Place Ste115
Store Code: Fresh - Brands (5148836)
Who Is Giant?
With over 2 million weekly customers and annual sales topping $5 billion, Giant is the #1 grocer in the Baltimore-Washington area. What began as one store on Georgia Avenue in Washington D.C. in 1936, now has grown to over 160 stores spanning across D.C., Maryland, Virginia and Delaware.
Giant's mission is beyond stocking groceries on shelves, we strive to be the most trusted and loved local food retailer in our community.
Position Summary:
This position is responsible for collaborating with leadership team in the implementation of a selling organization culture with a consumer-centric focus through the Demand Planning Analyst responsibilities. Business expert to develop, implement, and manage the Forecasting and Replenishment (F&R) System's forecasting capabilities. Provides guidance and acts as a key contributor for strategic demand planning practices that support our banner strategies, inventory targets, and collective supply chain objectives. Collects, merges, and shares pertinent information to create a single, unified demand forecast within the F&R System. Applies seasoned in-depth knowledge of industry forecasting processes and methods. Identifies drivers through root cause analysis of forecast variances, then quantifies and implements updates to complex forecasting systems and processes. Utilizes exception-based analysis and forecast accuracy results to drive sales growth, maximize inventory investment, and enable business process improvement.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities:
- Subject Matter Expert for managing and leveraging the demand planning capabilities within the F&R System.
- Responsible for maintaining the F&R System's forecasting capabilities.
- Partnering closely with other teams in Forecasting & Replenishment to help translate extensive product knowledge into appropriate system actions.
- Coordinate and provide leadership for growth projects within the organization.
- Work closely with the Super Users on business rules modifications, system regression testing, and optimization models.
- Partner with other business functions within Supply Chain, Pricing, and Category teams to leverage end-to-end forecast visibility to support a unified demand forecasting process.
- Responsible for overall F&R System forecast accuracy and support of inventory management in partnership with merchandising, distribution, and retail functions.
- Work within F&R System to measure, analyze, and create appropriate-term forecasts, while maximizing item-level forecast accuracy to drive supply chain optimization.
- Execute exception-based analysis to identify drivers in forecast error variances, with an aggressive approach to quantify and implement changes to improve forecasting and replenishment within F&R System.
- Analyze and execute F&R System processes for new items, along with store and promotional events.
- Collaborate with the Super Users to maintain and execute system enahacements and the functional expansion of the F&R system's capabilities.
- Ability to distill complicated data and analysis into actionable recommendations, guidance, and conclusions.
- Partner with Category Management and Supply Chain Leadership to provide forecast analysis with influence to the long-term strategies.
- Communicate, demonstrate, and inspire behaviors in others that drive a consumer demand driven Supply Chain strategy.
- Maintain a 24/7 on-call rotation with other DPAs and Super Users.
- With direction from the Super Users, take action for weather events to proactively manage demand in coordination with supply chain activities.
- Occasional travel to banner retail locations for research or specific initiatives.
- Additional duties and responsibilities may be assigned on an as needed basis based on business needs.
Qualifications and Experience:
- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent combination of education and related work experience in Mathematics, Economics, SCM, Logistics, IT, or other relevant subject expertise
- 3 to 5 years of experience in Demand Planning, Forecasting, Category Management, Pricing, Logistics, Procurement, or Distribution Operations
- Mature level of knowledge for company, business and industry practices
- Proficient with Microsoft Office
- APICS, IBF, or MIT certification preferable
- Proficiency in working within a cloud-based system
- In depth knowledge of industry forecasting processes and methods
- Experience with IT road map development
- Experience with IT User Acceptance Testing (UAT) processes
Skills and Abilities:
- Demonstrate a personal acceptance of change and the ability to adapt and drive change
- Demonstrate an ability to implement and analyze retail business using consumer insights and trends
- Strong root cause analytical skill set
- Comfort working within a highly technical environment
- Active listener with an ability to build trust across varying levels of the organization
- Strong training and teaching skills
- Excellent organizational, planning, influence, communication, and presentation skills
- Self-motivated and persuasive in presenting and selling ideas, and executing their implementation
- Able to handle multiple priorities
- Detail oriented
- Manage day-to-day activity for identified responsibilities
- Influence without authority
- Work as part of a team
- Think innovatively
- Work with all levels of management
Pay Range: $78,600 - $125,760
Why Work at Giant?
At Giant, we love what we do, and make it easy for you to love it, too! Every day, we build on our over 80-year legacy of innovation, quality, and value and hard work to keep our top spot in the market and with our customers. The most important part of that? Our people.
Giant's thousands of associates in our stores, distribution centers and corporate headquarters have one thing in common: the opportunity to advance their career. We proudly hire and promote from our own ranks, offering opportunities to learn and advance, take trainings and earn degrees, serve our communities, receive recognition for their work and have a career, not just a job.
We proudly host Business Resource Groups ( BRGs) - six voluntary employee-led groups that help build community and are aligned with our mission, values, goals, business practices and objectives. The BRGs programming is designed to support their members and our associates through social activity, volunteering and professional development opportunities.
Our mission is to provide convenient ways for our customers to prepare meals for moments that matter most through meal solutions, recipe inspiration, time-saving services like pickup and delivery and beyond. Giant also values being a better neighbor. One way we support our neighbors is by providing donations and charitable efforts to our local partners that support our main charitable causes.
We'd love for you to become part of the Giant family and join us in our journey of being a Better Place to Work, a Better Place to Shop and a Better Neighbor - because, after all, our people truly make us Giant.
Salary : $78,600 - $125,760
