Allocation Analyst

Description of Duties

• Build, develop, and support working relationships with cross-functional in-person and/or virtual teams by facilitating proactive business management, communication, issue resolution as well as driving key decisions.
• Partners with other business units by providing lead time and production planning guidance that support communication of supply chain challenges and to provide recommendations in support of meeting company objectives.
• Strives for process improvements by developing, measuring, and monitoring critical metrics and KPI’s.
• Drives the execution of product placement plans to deliver KPI targets.
• Communicates insights and alternatives when faced with supply chain challenges or data to support decision-making.
• Analyzes industry trends and data in supply chain to identify problematic areas and suggest improvements.
• Capable of frequent or ad hoc supply and/or demand shifts that require new analysis to support decision making.
• Develop and maintain reports/analysis that support prompt and succinct formats using Tableau for distribution to key stakeholders and/or Leadership.
• Supports ongoing Business Planning and other cross-divisional stakeholders with inventory planning.

Summary of Requirements

• 3+ years of related experience in Supply Chain or Inventory/Supply Planning
• Fundamental understanding of various forecast methodologies both quantitative and qualitative
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Demonstrated ability to think strategically
• Strong visualization and PowerPoint skills
• Able to prioritize and manage multiple competing deliverables
• Extremely detail- and process-oriented
• Strong MS Office (Strong Excel, Word, and PowerPoint) experience
• Experience with allocation solution software preferred
• Oracle EBS and Business Intelligence, Inventory, Agile, Tableau, SharePoint, Smartsheet, Confluence experience helpful but not required
• Import/Customs experience helpful but not required
• Project Management skills helpful but not required
• Undergraduate degree in Business, Supply Chain, or related field or equivalent experience
• APICS and/or IBF (SCM) certification an advantage