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This role will collaborate closely with Sales, Marketing, Product Planning, Supply Chain, Finance, and Operations to analyze historical demand, seasonality, market trends, promotional activities, new product introductions, and other business intelligence to develop accurate and reliable consensus forecasts.\nThe ideal candidate combines strong analytical capabilities, business acumen, and cross-functional communication skills to improve forecast accuracy, optimize inventory levels, minimize stockouts and excess inventory, and support overall business growth.\nKey Responsibilities\nDevelop, maintain, and continuously improve short-term and long-term demand forecasts across products, SKUs, sales channels, and customer segments.\nAnalyze historical sales, seasonality, customer demand, product trends, promotional activities, and market conditions to anticipate changes in demand.\nCollaborate with Sales, Marketing, Product Planning, Finance, Supply Chain, and Operations to develop and 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requirements.\nIncorporate new product introductions, product transitions, promotions, and product phase-outs into demand forecasts.\nAnalyze SKU performance and productivity to support inventory positioning, assortment planning, and product lifecycle management decisions.\nPrepare demand-planning reports, dashboards, and presentations for leadership and cross-functional stakeholders.\nIdentify opportunities to improve forecasting methodologies, planning systems, reporting capabilities, and overall supply-chain efficiency.\nMaintain accurate demand-planning data within enterprise resource planning (ERP) and supply-chain planning systems.\nParticipate in special projects and continuous-improvement initiatives across Supply Chain and Operations.\nQualifications\nBachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Business, Finance, Economics, Engineering, Statistics, Analytics, or a related field.\nApproximately 3-5 years of experience in demand planning, forecasting, supply-chain planning, 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