What are the responsibilities and job description for the Supply Chain Analyst - 14174 position at Transcend Solutions?
Supply Chain Analyst - 14174
Contract Duration: 6 months
Location: Ridgefield Park, NJ
Schedule: Hybrid, Monday – Thursday in-office, Friday Remote
Top 3 Skill Sets
- Excel
- Customer facing experience
- Demand planning
This role is responsible for managing the weekly sales and order forecasts for specific segments of our client’s CE (Consumer Electronics) business. It will require a strong relationship building with our client’s retail channel partners as well as sales, marketing, operations & logistics. This role will actively coordinate planning and identify risk & opportunity predicated upon the current forecasts while requiring individual work to provide analysis that is concise and actionable.
A major responsibility will be managing the weekly CPFR (Collaborative Planning, Forecasting & Replenishment) process with our retail channel partners. Performance will be measured against assigned sales goals, channel inventory targets (WOS) and forecast accuracy. Finally, there will be a consistent requirement to identify macro trends and produce a weekly risk analysis all while measuring daily & weekly sales achievement.
Roles & Responsibility:
- Manage weekly CPFR process with Retail or Distribution Customers
- Build and communicate the weekly forecast for both Sell-In and Sell-Thru units
- Ensure Order Management accuracy in ERP system - SAP
- Identify potential gaps in demand/supply forecast and resolve deltas
- Drive weekly internal recaps for Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP)
- Daily involvement in managing S&OP escalations
- Manage and measure supply chain processes including channel risk and shipping performance
- Must be comfortable presenting to and promoting consensus-building internally and externally
- Must be comfortable working in a multi-cultural business environment
- Additional duties and responsibilities as assigned
Required Skills and Attributes:
- Education Requirement: High school diploma or GED required
- Years of experience 1-3 yrs
- Minimum of 1 years of related experience
- Bachelor’s Degree preferably in business, finance, supply chain
- Hands on Forecasting experience
- Strong analytical & communication skills
- Ability to work independently & manage multiple competing demands
- Customer Oriented
- Participative & collaborates to solve problems
- Ability to work in a high-demand environment & prioritize
- Meet deadlines under pressure
- Analytical, attention to detail and accuracy
- Advanced skills in MS Excel (V-Lookups, Pivots, etc.)
- ERP experience, preferably SAP
- Experience with Business Intelligence tools
