Senior Manager Order Forecasting

Job description

***Have you ever enjoyed Arnold®, Brownberry® or Oroweat® bread? A Thomas’® English muffin or bagel? Or perhaps snacked on a Sara Lee®, Entenmann’s® or Marinela® cake or donut? If the answer is yes, then you know Bimbo Bakeries USA!*** ***More than 20,000 associates in bakeries, sales centers, offices and on sales routes work to ensure our consumers have the freshest products at every meal. In addition to competitive pay and benefits, we provide a safe and inclusive work environment that appreciates diversity, promotes development and allows our associates to be their authentic selves.*** #LI-AG1 **Come join the largest baking company in the world and our family of 20,000 associates nationwide!** **Top Reasons to Work at Bimbo Bakeries USA:** **Salary Range: $105,100 - $147,100** **Annual Bonus Eligibility** **Comprehensive Benefits Package** **Paid Time Off** **401k & Company Match** *The posted salary range reflects the range the Company reasonably expects to pay for this position. Actual starting salary will be determined based on internal pay equity to promote consistency and fairness across comparable roles, while also considering the candidate’s relevant experience and qualifications.* **Position Summary:** The Senior Manager Order Forecasting will be focused on leading a regional forecast planning and communication team that guides the ION system and frontline in creating their orders for BBU product. The role will oversee the data governance from account, brand and customer teams into BBU systems that present a suggested product order to the delivery frontline. The analysis, communication and validation of this data is time sensitive and is key to a large portion of BBUs success and ability to service customers and consumers with our product offerings. This role will be operated at a regional level as a peer to other Senior Managers of Order Forecasting in other regions to create best practices for the Order Forecasting Specialists and the frontline in terms of order and delivery behaviors. The role will also aid as a liaison between the technology, brand and account teams to inform order forecasting specialists of events, system changes or other operational considerations for key events and market execution. **Key Job Responsibilities:** - Lead regional team of order forecasting specialists focused on taking customer promotion, new product launch, store opening / closing, holiday and other special circumstance or specific weekly plans and translate that into volume modifications and exception information for frontline ordering. - Responsible for the weekly planning of Mass and Club stores for the assigned area. - Coordinates major initiatives with national and regional customer teams, corporate brand teams, manufacturing and supply chain teams to understand key initiatives in terms of scope, priority, and expected outcome. Manage potential discrepancies between the customer and brand planning teams to set expectations based on forecasting outcomes guided by data and experience. - Assist order forecasting specialists in data analysis of events and suggested volume orders for events and weekly ordering by the frontline. - Assist and guide order forecasting specialists in communications to the frontline and other stakeholders about events and product volume ordering needs to ensure the best possible success in achieving profitability and growth while maintaining high freshness of DSD product. - Lead regional team in measurement of quality through data governance process for inputs needed by the forecast system. - Responsibilities include collaboration with other stakeholders and collecting data from multiple sources, ensuring the accurate collection and entry of information to produce accurate forecasts as well as to measure execution. Guide the development team as needed with inputs on data entity expansion. - Provides inputs to DSDE Technology team members, technical staff as needed to identify, outline, and collaborate on potential enhancements, corrections and adjustments of forecasting algorithm and system software or communication technologies to better achieve growth, freshness and route operations. Providing insight and analysis on potential technology solutions proposed by the development and product teams as well as collaboration on new concepts. - Support system maintenance to ensure accurate representation and operation of route configurations, store, scheduling and product alignment. - Ensures growth and optimization of frontline awareness, market share and/or specified initiatives as well as providing market execution information to supply, brand and account teams. - Reviews the competitive marketplace and makes recommendations for adjustments to operational activities based upon identified industry information and best practices. - Develops effective working relationships with stakeholders including local sales leadership to achieve targeted goals and/or solutions. - Interacts with peers in management / customers / vendors to interpret information and improve cross-functional processes and programs. - Drives consistency in customer planning and analysis – KPIs, ROI, Frontline effectiveness, scorecards, dashboards and forecasts, creating and managing these metrics for the team. - Travel is required – 10 %. **Key Behavioral Competencies:** - Must have the ability and experience to act as “influencer” to frontline, sales leadership and insight stakeholders, with and independent from sales, marketing, customer or supply chain team partners. - Demonstrated mastery of data analysis tools and approaches for forecast accuracy and execution measurement. - Ability to create streamlined reports using a variety of different sources – Including internet research, internal data sources. - Excellent verbal and written communication skills and can interact at all levels of the organization. - Candidate must have analytic problem-solving skills and be able to dig beyond the surface for deeper-level insights to drive actionable adjustments. - Candidate must display good interpersonal skills, including a positive "team-player" attitude -- within the department and outside. **Education and Work History:** Bachelor’s level degree preferred in business, marketing, marketing research or statistics / mathematics. A combination of education, training and experience that results in demonstrated competency to perform the work may be substituted. Ideal candidate will possess: - 7 years of experience in business management or technical analysis functions which may include 5 years of experience in product marketing, sales forecasting, supply chain optimization or equivalent technical field. - Computer skills and proficiency, specifically PowerPoint, Excel, and Word is required, as well as proficiency with PROMPT and Margin Minder or other data analysis and dashboarding tools. **Physical Demands:** The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. - Able to use a variety of communication methods on frequent basis. - Use a notebook computer and standard office equipment printers, fax, phone etc. - Able to sit, stand, stoop and have use of hand motor coordination regularly. - Use various forms of transportation for extended periods of time on periodic basis. Bimbo Bakeries USA is an equal opportunity employer with a policy that provides equal employment opportunity for applicants and employees regardless of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, or gender identity), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, veteran status, any other classification protected by law. It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.