Who You’ll Work With
You'll be working alongside other Planners within Arista's Demand Planning team. Additionally, you will collaborate cross-functionally with members of Arista's Marketing, Supply Planning, Procurement, and Finance teams. Communication and organization will be critical for success in this role.
What You'll Do
- Own the demand signal for multiple product groups; responsible for analysis, maintenance, and commitment of an accurate rolling 24-month plan
- Maintain the unconstrained demand plan utilizing statistical forecast methods and market intelligence, informing supply to guide manufacturing partners and internal teams on build priorities
- Define behaviors of product groupings (demand segmentation strategy) seasonal, trend, cyclical, random
- Provide analysis and suggestions for optimization of constrained component supply
- Challenge, assess, and maintain justifications for increases and decreases in forecast. Actively communicate forecast changes and trends to supply chain partners
- Analyze global purchasing trends and direct finished good materials to the correct global fulfillment sites
- Work to reduce excess inventory and disposition excess and obsolete stock
- Provide regular updates to senior management on inventory levels, risks to meeting demand and suggested buffer levels
- Analyze how changes in forecast will affect buffer component levels and inventory dollars
- Determine and report against forecast accuracy Key Performance Indicators
- Provide leadership and guidance to develop new tools and processes to scale the business
- Prior Demand Planning experience in a related industry
- Must have demonstrated ability to work independently as well as in a team environment
- Must have demonstrated ability to become a subject matter expert and use that knowledge to build new processes and tools
- Must thrive in a flexible and results-driven environment
- Excellent oral and written communication skills and strong computer proficiency
- Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications
- Previous experience with SAP/IBP modules and/or Oracle is a plus
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This is a 12-month contract position (with potential to hire)
40 hours per week
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.