CPFR Analyst - Treats

CPFR Analyst - Supply Planner T1-II

The CPFR Analyst plays a key role responsible for utilizing advanced planning, forecasting and replenishment techniques to drive sales, maintain high instocks, fine-tune forecast accuracy and optimizing inventory levels for Mars Petcare Treats category. Critical activities include monitoring forecast, store instocks, case fill, network inventory position, and order patterns to provide recommendations on replenishment and forecast strategies. The role is responsible for building plans and executing key business activities such as new item launches, expanded distribution, promotional activity, transitions, and everyday replenishment needs.

What Are We Looking For?

Minimum:

• Bachelor's Degree in Supply Chain, business, or other related fields
• 1-3 years of prior supply chain experience
• Requires thorough understanding of CPFR processes and supply chain product flow
• Ability to combine large data sets from various sources for analyzing and simplify output for respective stakeholders
• Strong technical proficiency (Retail Link, MS Excel, SAP, Scintilla, Tableau, Power BI)
• Excellent analytical, problem solving and communication skills
• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to work cross functionally with stakeholders to solve business challenges

Preferred:

• Work experience at CPG organization working directly with Walmart in CPFR capacity
• Mastery utilizing Walmart systems (i.e. Retail Link, Scintilla)

What Will Be Your Key Responsibilities?

• Primary point of contact for Walmart Replenishment Team regarding Inventory Planning, Forecast and Replenishment functions.
• Develops strong collaborative relationships with Walmart Replenishment team and Mars Sales, Operations, Demand and Supply Planning teams.
• Lead the investigation and understanding of end-to-end Supply Chain processes with Walmart and identify continuous improvement and value creation opportunities.
• Leverage Walmart's Retail Link(Scintilla)/Luminate data and Mars internal data to prepare and present recommendations that improve Instock, drive sales, forecast accuracy and right-size inventory.
• Use POS history, POS forecast, Inventory DOS targets, and Store/DC Inventory position to anticipate Mars monthly shipment volume. Collaborate with Sales and Planning to integrate these insights into the business plan.
• Owns and reports customer specific service metrics and provides proactive communication and action plans to mitigate service risk.
• Develops analysis and scorecards for communication to the customer and key cross-functional teams to improve overall supply chain compliance and effectiveness.
• Embraces and lives the Mars culture by leading with The Five Principles.

What Can You Expect From Mars?

• Work with over 130,000 like-minded and talented Associates, all guided by The Five Principles.
• Join a purpose driven company, where we're striving to build the world we want tomorrow, today.
• Best-in-class learning and development support from day one, including access to our in-house Mars University.
• An industry competitive salary and benefits package, including company bonus.

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