Sr. Forecast Analyst

Company Description

Join our vertically integrated team at MAT Holdings, Inc., a leading global manufacturer with a 40-year history. We're proud to provide employment opportunities for more than 14,000 employees across 12 countries. Headquartered in Long Grove, Illinois, we have over 40 factories on three continents, including 2.1 million square feet of U.S. distribution and manufacturing space.

You will find our products in home improvement centers, big box retailers, hardware stores and automotive chains. They're in the cars you drive, the trailers you tow, and the heavy-duty machinery you operate.

MAT can maintain consistent expertise and solutions across the entire supply chain. We’re experts in engineering, manufacturing, quality assurance, logistics and distribution, marketing, design, and customer service — we don't just make it happen, we ensure it happens with excellence.

We’re more than manufacturing, we’re MAT.

Job Description

This position is responsible for maintaining the monthly demand planning process (via primarily statistical forecasting approaches plus collaborative/consensus forecasting). This individual will monitor and update the forecast process data for the finished goods. This person contributes to the cross-functional inventory planning and customer demand review processes.

Principle Responsibilities

• Validate and organize demand data from multiple sources.
• Design/Redesign forecasting processes to adjust for frequent customer driven changes in demand structure.
• Maintaining forecasting structural data to assure proper categorization
• Analyze, develop, and maintain a monthly forecast for all finished goods parts using order and shipment history, customer point of sale data, market intelligence, and industry trends to inform the projected demand.
• Lead the program(s) monthly collaborative demand review as part of the S&OP process.
• Work with sales, marketing, and product management to understand product life cycles, demand patterns, and short, medium, and long-term forecasts.
• Develop means to detect exceptions in large datasets and design rational responses.
• Contribute to continuous improvement efforts to advance the demand planning and forecasting process capabilities.
• Maintain forecast vs. actual history data by customer, product family, channel, geography, and SKU.
• Update/Create standard work process documents as procedure evolves.

Competencies

• Able to develop and design a statistical forecasting process and standards for high sku-count seasonal products.
• 3+ years’ experience directly utilizing an enterprise planning software (e.g., SAP, JDA, IBP, Oracle, etc.) to create statistical forecasts for high SKU-count customers (2000 to 10,000+ SKUs).
• Lead multiple medium and large projects
• Experience using and interacting with MRP systems.
• Experience comparing and implementing, as well as validating forecasting methodologies, techniques, and approaches (e.g., moving averages, exponential smoothing, holt-winters, box-jenkins, discrete probability, etc.).
• Detail-oriented and ability to organize work activities in highly ambiguous situations.
• Advanced Excel Skills applied to large multi-variable datasets to extract/compile/analyze/interpret results. Advanced Access skills a plus.
• Calculate and track forecast MAPE and bias to measure performance.
• Strong problem-identification and analytical skills.
• Experience with process management skills.
• Action-oriented.

Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree in mathematics, supply chain, or engineering required.
• Relevant industry experience in the automotive or aftermarket parts business.
• 4-6+ years of supply chain planning experience in S&OP, demand, and/or supply planning.

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.