Business Planner

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Your role at Clorox:

Develops the demand plan by leveraging the Integrated Business Planning (IBP) process and synthesizes key insights and trade-offs to align with business unit objectives

In this role, you will:

Demand Forecast Analysis

• Forecast ownership: Leverages and develop demand forecast for a subset of the BU, incorporating in GM and functional feedback and adjusts as needed to arrive at an integrated and accurate plan​

• Driver attribution and business analysis: Assesses and pressure tests key forecast drivers, seeking a deep understanding demand forecast driver attribution and their influence the forecast, risks, and opps.​

• DP narrative design:  Give input to Business Planning Manager on BU LEDP narrative, proactively identifying key forecast tensions, tradeoffs, and decisions needed for discussion in LEDP & Scenario Selection Meeting and GM Signoff Meeting

Scenario Coordination

• Demand scenario analysis: Based on direction from Business planning manager, drives scenario analysis, leveraging IBP Scenario Mgr. tool, identifying impact of changing demand drivers (e.g. pricing, promo, mktg, and dist.) based on business acumen​

• Risks & opportunities: Analyzes demand forecast impact of different risk / opportunity scenarios​

• Scenario framing & response: Provide input on framing and strategy development against most likely impactful scenarios, in alignment with IBP Lead / Mgr. and BU LT

Cross-​Functional Collaboration

• Proactive communication:  Conducts proactive cross-functional outreach to understand forecast and key drivers, extract business insights, understand risks & opportunities, correctly incorporate adjustments to lock DP scenario​

• Input coordination: Support in input review & validation ​

• Tool feedback: Provides feedback to the IBP hub on Iris tool functionality​

• Community of practice: Actively foster and contribute to a community of like practitioners

What we look for:

• 5+ years of industry experience, CPG / fast moving consumer preferred​
• BA or equivalent in Engineering, Supply Chain, Data Science, or Predictive Analytics
• Recent S&OP / demand planning experience​
• Deep experience in statistical modeling / predictive analytics​
• Experience interfacing across multiple functions​
• Preference: Experience in a customer-facing role
• IBP System Knowledge required
• Rapid Response Knowledge required
• ​Strong communication and presence​
• Forward-looking strategic thinking: Ability to synthesize disparate data into coherent, forward-looking business strategy and tactics for advancing business priorities, with manager support​
• Analytics / data mastery: Strong data science / analytical skillset, including: ​
• In depth understanding how a forecast model works, strengths / pitfalls of the ML model and the core elements of the model predictivity​
• Able to analyze and diagnose core forecast drivers and understand impact on forecast with Iris tools​
• High fluency / dexterity in working with data​
• Ability to recognize trends within data and translate into forecast narrative​
• Technical Aptitude: Demonstrated proficiency in using Kinaxis or similar demand planning tools​
• Customer operations: Understanding of