CTI Foods Overview:
We are a customer focused custom manufacturer of quality food products to exacting standards that delight our customer and their consumers.
The people of CTI Foods are our #1 ingredient that drive us to be the best custom food and culinary solutions team that has seven state-of-the-art food processing facilities and over 1,800 employees from California, Idaho, Iowa, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, and Texas.
We are a company that “Thinks Big and Acts Small.” Employees are treated like family. In order to succeed, it takes every person working together, being nimble, and executing at the highest levels. It is our responsibility to provide you every opportunity and resource to achieve that success.
Make an impact from day ONE at CTI Foods!
Job Overview:
This role will play an important role in developing and providing analytics and reporting that will be used in the execution of the Company’s Demand Review. The role includes responsibility assisting and guiding the S&OP team, Sales team, and other cross-functional teams with reporting and insights that lead to successful sales, planning and strategy execution. These functions include demand planning, updating forecast as part of the planning process, building demand models and KPI reporting, assisting in budgeting and inventory management, and facilitating data gathering and communicating plans. The Analyst will also be actively involved in continuous improvement of processes
Responsibilities:
- Assist in demand planning and management activities of company products by developing demand forecasts based on patterns and business trends.
- Provide guidance to the S&OP, Sales, Product Management, and other cross-functional teams, which includes supporting these teams as part of the monthly Demand Review process.
- Develop and automate reporting and forecast planning by supporting new product launches, promotions, customer forecast planning, and reporting of KPI’s.
- Perform market analysis, determine customer demands and provide strategic what-if analysis.
- Conduct and help problem solve solutions by assisting and leading efforts at Root Cause Corrective Action.
- Maintain and utilize demand planning systems, ERP data, and Business Intelligence tools to build analysis and reporting as well as provide information
- Responsible for managing cross-functional/multi-site projects and workstream team activities, including content, timeliness, quality of deliverables, cross-work stream integration, and helping in the implementation planning processes.
- Support creation and maintenance of Standard Operating Procedures and guidelines.
- Performs other related duties as assigned.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain or other applicable degrees such as Finance. MBA or advanced degree a plus.
- Minimum 3+ years of related experience in planning, supply chain, and ideally S&OP experience.
- Demonstrated ability to meet operational goals while also fostering a positive work environment.
- Strong interpersonal communication, organizational, and analytical problem solving and planning abilities.
- Demonstrated capability to analyze the cause of a problem and provide solutions for corrective action.
- Understanding of how demand planning supports the Company’s strategic plans and impacts performance of other business functions.
- Ability to establish and maintain effective interpersonal working relationships with internal and external customers and develop a collaborative working relationship across the spectrum of leadership levels
- Capability to help translate information into business implications
- Skilled in analysis, planning and documenting processes and can provide information concisely, accurately, verbally, and through presentation.
- Adaptable to change with a mindset focused on learning and continuous improvement