Demand Forecast Analyst

Role Purpose

Manage customer demand forecast and work with cross functions to ensure sales target is achieved. Improve commercial process effectiveness.

Key Responsibilities

• Be a liaison between Division demand planning team and regional commercial teams for demand analysis and forecast.
• Provide sales plan at detail level for supply planning in a monthly basis
• Work closely with Regional Commercial teams to understand assumptions of customer demand forecast and the latest insights of market dynamics .
• Communicate demand changes or trends to relevant stakeholders, ensuring all counterparts are informed of significant shifts.
• Support monthly closing and work with functional groups to ensure JV closing are well aligned.
• Maintain forecasting models and analyze various demand statements to identify patterns, trends and demand fluctuations.
• Investigate the causes of demand variances and adjust future forecasts to improve accuracy.
• Support ad-hoc requests and enhance process efficiency by using tools for digitalization.

Education/ Experience

• Bachelor's degree or above - MBA or Master's Degree in business-related fields.
• At least 2+ years of relevant work experience in Commercial, Finance or SCM function; ideally in a position requiring data analysis.

Skills

Required Skills:
• Advanced excel skills to support data analysis and sales forecast management.
• Attention to details and be able to handle multi tasks under high pressure environment.
• Work independently and respond quickly to the requests.
• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively.
• Strong ownership to assigned role & responsibility.
• Fluent in written and spoken English.

Desired Skills:
• Familiar with Microsoft's tools suite, such as Power BI, Power Platform and Power Query to create dashboard.
• Cross-function work experience.
• Capable of understanding data from business insights.