General Mills
Location
Mumbai | India
Job description
Position Title: Assistant Manager- Demand Analytics
Function/Group:Logistics
Country: India
Location: Mumbai
Job Band & Pay Grade : Experienced Professional PG 55
Job Type: Full time
Role Reports to: Manager - Demand Analytics
Geographical Scope of the Role - Location: NAR
Percentage of travel required: 5 -10%
Span of Control (Team Size): 6-10
Shift 1.30 pm - 10.30 pm
Organizational Structure
Individual Contributors
6 - 10
What percentage of time is spent managing others
30-40%
Job Overview
Supply chain analytics group is responsible for delivering the solutions and developing the capabilities which enables better decision-making in supply chain. This team works closely with all supply chain functions (i.e. plan, source, make, deliver and customer service teams), business units and other cross functional partners for developing solutions to drive business value.
This team also drives step-change innovation and improvements in business practices by delivering actionable insights through advanced analytics and supply chain expertise.
The purpose of the job is to support Demand planning function by providing solutions and help implementing it to optimize/Standardize processes which will bring improvement to overall forecasting approach resulting in better accuracy. Explore and take up opportunities which supports the demand planning efforts by creating and executing industry leading and standard approaches.
Job Responsibilities
30% of Time
Strategic Responsibilities:
· Provide business and process leadership for enhancing models and Stat forecast analysis, validation with exception management
· Set strategic direction for the team in collaboration with cross- functional and Supply Chain leadership
· Lead management and adherence of monthly stat forecast cycle aligned with PEAK DR process and timely feed to tactical forecast plan with validated stat forecast and visualization dashboards on AOC
· Build ongoing tracking of business goals and communicate progress, risk and risk mitigation measures with respective regions on monthly stat forecast evolution
· Representative for Product and COE teams to ensure that key region-specific needs are accounted for.
· Collaborate with business teams to identify pain points and suggest analytical solutions for General Mills Logistics
40% of Time
Operational Responsibilities:
· Track the model accuracy, FVA of statistical forecasts and improvement of key KPI's: MAPE, MASE, TS, Bias, NFM & COV at various lags and granularity
· Lead stat forecasting scenario building to help with DR prep., along with capability to decrypt forecast explainability
· Lead the analysts on monthly stat forecast cycles in the areas of data pre-processing, model selection and hold out set performance at multiple hierarchy and time dimensions
· Support on volumetric derivation on changing business assumptions wrt. tactical forecast around distribution, pricing, Trade merchandising, cannibalization, macroeconomic and other key causal factors
· Lead the monthly forecast exception management by enabling efficient analysis of change, primary driver identification, output reasonableness and validation of stat forecast feature group and building blocks
· Manage rare event flagging for historical data and ways to represent it for go forward predictions on repetitiveness and interpretation
· Lead stat analyst and regional demand planner monthly engagement cadence on tactical demand enrichment feedback and incorporation into future cycles
· Lead BPM run governance calls, presenting Stat performance metrics to senior leadership
· Scaling and implementing the forecasting framework and algorithms to support requirements from new regions and Support execution of pilots to prove scalability and business value while ensuring adherence to process standardization
· Manage region specific demand disaggregation and reconciliation in case of multiple level of forecast breakout
· Lead forecast generation for New Items using like item modelling approach for Tier 1 launches and effectively work on expansion of capability to other tiers
· Close partnership with technical consultant and product teams to roll out the new capabilities into existing systems and processes
· Ensure adherence region specific service level agreements to the planners on data, insights, ad-hoc statistical model runs etc.
30% of Time
· Talent Management Responsibilities -
o Develop a demonstrably lean, sustainable and successful organization through business results, people development, and efficient processes
o participating for hiring drives, university engagements, retaining key talent, developing talent in alignment with Individual development plan, training requirements, performance appraisal and achieve talent management metrics
o Champion Organization's values and culture
o Process standardization and documentation
Desired Profile
Education
Minimum Degree Requirements:Bachelors
Preferred Degree Requirements:Masters
Preferred Major Area of Study: Supply Chain Management, Industrial Engineering, Operations
Required Professional Certifications:
Preferred Professional Certifications: CSCP/PMP/ Six Sigma / Analytics
Experience
Minimum years of related experience required:4 years
Preferred years of related experience:5-8 years
Specific Job Experience or Skills Needed
5+ years of work experience with demonstrated project and people leadership skills in Supply Chain
Hands on experience of leading build of Advanced statistics and Machine learning models
Demonstrated skill in developing new solutions to business problems
Can prioritize and complete multiple tasks on tight deadlines
Demonstrated skills in R and Python
Broad understanding of end to end supply chain business processes
Strong analytical and Supply Chain business acumen skills
Competencies/Behaviors required for job
- Leads Innovation: Identify and recommend opportunities, solutions and need for change. Adapt quickly and respond effectively to change. Explore and share innovative best practices with others.
- Deliver Results: Assume personal initiative and accountability for results, performance and behaviors. Be comfortable with ambiguity. Engage in cross functional collaboration to identify innovative solutions and optimization.
- Energize and Develop People: Provide ideas and input to help team achieve greater result. Build foundational skills and expertise in key systems and tools critical for success on the job. Exhibit a high level of self-motivation and initiative.
- Connect the Best Together: Negotiate solutions between stakeholders and effectively communicate with various levels and functions through-out the organization. Clearly articulate views in written and verbal discussions.
- Integrity and Candor: Engenders Trust at all levels and demonstrates unquestionable integrity.
Additional Information
- This position reports to the Manager, the Supply Chain Analytics group. Hours of operation are 1.30 PM to 10.30 PM Mumbai time (Monday to Friday) with the ability to flex hours as the job demands
- In performing these accountabilities, the incumbent must develop and maintain an effective working relationship with Organizations' employees at all levels across the company locations
- The Job may involve travel to worldwide GMI location on short term basis depending on business requirements
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