Senior Demand Planner

HAVI is a global, privately owned company focused on innovating, optimizing and managing the supply chains of leading brands. Offering services in marketing analytics, packaging, supply chain management and logistics, HAVI partners with companies to address challenges big and small across the supply chain, from commodity to customer. Founded in 1974, HAVI employs more than 10,000 people and serves customers in more than 100 countries. HAVI’s supply chain services are complemented by the customer engagement services offered by our affiliated company The Marketing Store.  For more information, please visit HAVI.com.

Full/Part Time: Full Time

Job Category: Demand Planning 

City: Chicago 

Primary Responsibilities:

Manage all forecast inputs and planning parameters for restaurant and DC replenishment to meet established quality thresholds to provide acceptable outputs to all stakeholders; use machine learning, statistical and judgmental forecasting methods to produce forecasts that support supply chain decision-making and work with cross-functional teams to maintain methodologies for supplier and DC replenishment; ensure restaurant and DC level forecasts meet established goals for accuracy by monitoring consumer sales, marketing activity, and menu offerings.

Qualifications:

· Bachelor’s degree in Business, Information Management, Statistics, Mathematics, Operations Research or related field

· 3 years of related experience

· Any amount of experience designing, implementing, and/or managing statistical/machine learning models to generate accurate sales forecasts

· Any amount of experience analyzing sales and inventory data to identify trends, manage item performance, and optimize demand forecasting accuracy

· Any amount of experience creating and optimizing inventory and sales performance reports in Data Visualization tools and Excel to improve supply chain performance tracking

· Any amount of experience utilizing SQL to extract sales and forecast data from databases for demand planning analysis

· Any amount of experience responding to demand forecast related inquiries from internal and external stakeholders

Must live within normal commuting distance of worksite. Up to 80% remote work allowed.

Salary range: $94,000 - $114,000

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Generous medical, dental, vision and other great benefits

Paid parental and medical leave programs

401(k) with a company match component and profit sharing

15 days of paid time off plus company holidays

Hybrid work model with flexibility

Tuition reimbursement and student loan repayment assistance

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Nearest Major Market: Chicago