Tasks, Duties & Responsibilities

Percentage of time spent on each duty.
These percentages should total 100%

• Make insightful adjustments to the forecast after determining how variables such as shipment/consumption trends, customer promotions, marketing strategy, new launches, and promotional displays impact the forecast.

20%

• Create a monthly latest estimate. Highlight risks and opportunities. Present to departmental management. This will be used in the Monthly Forecast Meeting (MFM) with senior management.

20 %

• Review forecast accuracy for both category and A-B-C rankings by SKU. Take into account results on future forecasts.

10 %

• Lead monthly forecast “consensus” meetings with marketing and sales administration. Present recommended adjustments to the forecast based on your analytical conclusions.  Achieve a “consensus forecast” by soliciting their feedback to your suggested revisions. Present risks and opportunities to the financial plan.

10 %

• Provide support for improvements to the forecasting process including the leveraging of the Logility system, the use of retail inventory models to predict replenishment orders and the development of a process to manage and forecast promotional display activity.

10 %

• Analyze account specific trends (top 6 accounts).  Determine what the risks and opportunities by account are for your assigned categories.  Ascertain how specific account/SKU activity impacts your total SKU level forecast accuracy.

10 %

• New product forecasting.

10 %

• Prepare for monthly forecast revision meeting with manufacturing.

5 %

• Special projects assigned by management.

5 %