Supply Chain/Demand Analyst

From a small family business to a multi-billion-dollar global company, Sonoco has been changing the face of products and packaging since 1899 — all while keeping the heart of “People Build Businesses” alive.

Our talented people are at the core of our growth, constantly reinventing the Sonoco wheel with brilliant solutions every year. Today we are a world leader in global packaging solutions with diversified operations in over 34 countries. We're extremely proud of our portfolio of brands, our achievements in sustainability and industrialization and the groundbreaking work accomplished by our people. 

While reporting to the Director of Planning and S&OP for GPP NA, you will be responsible for data analysis in support of Demand Forecasting, Demand Management, Supply Planning, and Finance processes supporting Global Paper Products North America.  You will work in support of commercial, operations, finance, and customer service & production planning teams to refine and execute the integrated business plan.  This includes, but is not limited to, support of Forecast Consumption, Inventory Management, Sales and Operations Planning, relevant supply chain data as well as business targets for both Paper and Converted Products. 

Supporting the North American Paper business, you will be responsible for supporting and facilitating the Demand Planning Process for S&OP using Logility Demand Management, Inventory Planning, Price f(x), and data warehouse analytics.  Working with the Commercial team, you will have direct responsibility for managing demand forecasts, through statistical tuning, and commercial intelligence integration, defining and facilitating forecast consumption for customer order management and coordination with the Paper Sales Team on demand related issues.  You will identify, initiate, and present supply chain analysis to Division Management to enable decision making related to steering overall demand as well as specific demand decisions in support of short and long-term business objectives across the Integrated Supply Chain (Earnings, Cash, Customer Service, etc.).

Within the Converted Products business, you will support Demand Forecasting and the Demand Planning process in the deployment of Sales and Operations Planning, with responsibility for Logility demand forecasts, tuning, and trend management.  You will engage with the commercial and operations teams as needed with forecast consumption and other analytics to drive toward improved business results, capacity utilization, and service.  You will also continue the work to deploy and sustain Demand Management as part of the Converted Products Sales & Operations Planning Process.

What you'll be doing:

• Ideally candidates would have a technical educational background in supply chain management, demand forecasting, demand management, operations research, engineering, or similar fields.  Experience in statistical demand forecasting is not required but would be highly valued. 
• This position is designed as an analytical support role for the Industrial Supply Chain staff comprising of 5 managers and will be an active member of the Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) process.
• This position should be considered a developmental position for future supply chain, logistics, supply management, operating excellence, or production planning leadership positions.
• This person must have very high-level competency in MSOffice Excel, Word, and PowerPoint. 
• This person will be expected to work closely with business system management, for Logility, Oracle, and OptiVision, to have the capability to extract data from data warehouses, SonoBIS and other systems to conduct analysis.
• This person will be expected to develop his / her own data extract capabilities using crystal reports, WEBI or other systems.
• This person should possess or be willing to pursue important Supply Chain certifications, like APICS CPIM and APICS CSCP.

This position is located in Hartsville, SC with some consideration for a partially-remote work schedule.

We’d love to hear from you if:  

• You have a bachelor’s degree, preferably supply chain, business, or mathematics.
• Two or more years of experience in related work areas.
• Supply Chain, Demand Management, or other certifications are “plus”.

Compensation: 

Analyst - Division Supply Chain: The annual base salary range for this role is from $62,560 to $70,380

Analyst II- Division Supply Chain: The annual base salary range for this role is from $80,320 to $90,360

Senior Supply Chain Analyst- The annual base salary range for this role is from $98,000 to $110,250, plus annual target bonus of 7.5% of base salary

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