Manager, Demand Planning - Mississauga, Canada - Walmart Canada
Description
Position Summary
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This position is responsible for the Demand Planning aspect within their respective Omni business segment.
The ongoing goal of this position is to continuously improve availability and simultaneously meeting inventory targets by improving forecast accuracy and bias, thereby supporting category growth and working capital targets.
Execution of the Demand Planning process focuses on collaborative "bottom-up" planning with Merchandising.This role is key to achieving the business targets for availability and working capital, as well as achieving the category growth objectives.
What you'll do
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- Leads and executes item level forecast analysis for assigned group of categories or departments identifying and analyzing factors that impact customer demand for products (for example, product or category trends, seasonality, competitive products)
- Adjusting forecasting model based on changes to customer demand and trends
- Communicating forecast, including risks, uncertainty, and assumptions to incorporate impacting factors and to identify trends, performance, and concerns; evaluating historical data (for example, lost sales, market trends, and promotions)
- Collaborating with key stakeholders (for example, category managers, merchandise planners and feature planners and strategic vendor as necessary ) to align demand forecasts to business plans including baseline and promotions
- Achieve forecast target improvements by reducing forecast error and bias
- Accountable to achieve working capital targets by managing inventory planning process and strategy improvement for categories or department by evaluating and identifying factors that impact department and item performance
Minimum qualifications:
- Intermediate Excel skills
Preferred Qualifications:
- Postsecondary education in an analytical field such as Economics or Business, or equivalent experience
Minimum Qualifications
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- Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications. _
Preferred Qualifications
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- Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications. _
Primary Location
1940 ARGENTIA RD, MISSISSAUGA, ON L5N 1P9, Canada
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