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Position Summary

Manages the monthly demand management process for Americold's Americas business, including the development of a rolling, minimum 24-month forecast at customer program levels, leveraging advanced predictive analytics. Assists in improving forecast accuracy and eliminating bias from demand forecasts. Collaborate with Sales, Marketing, Finance, Customer Service, and Operations to determine assumptions, latest market trends, customer-specific plans and needs, and promotional activities. Responsible for developing and implementing Class A Planning and Control demand management and forecasting processes, including design, procedures, responsibilities, and metrics. Participate in sales planning and pricing activities to achieve the sales plans that were forecasted. Leads the consensus demand planning process to ensure a singular demand plan considering multiple inputs to include sales history, sales team inputs, marketing inputs, operations inputs, etc. Communicates requirements to operations and financial organization.

Essential Functions

The essential functions of the position include, but are not limited to:

• Effectively leading a forecast analyst(s) in the recognition of all demand for storage, handling, and value-added services to support customers.
• Developing 24-month rolling demand forecasts in $ and units, which become the basis for Latest Estimates, Operating Plans, and financial projections.
• Developing various advanced statistical models, data analytics, AI, and machine learning models to support and enhance the accuracy of the demand forecast, as well as identifying business growth opportunities or business risks.
• Documenting assumptions underlying the forecast and highlighting key changes; monitoring the market environment vs. assumptions.
• Coordinating the monthly Demand Review meeting to gain agreement on the latest 24-month forecasts using input from Sales, Marketing, Operations, and Customer Service. If the organization cannot reach consensus, recommends a final decision to the Chief Financial Officer.
• Creating and implementing a weekly forecasting process at the program and location level. The weekly process includes comparing shipments and orders with forecast, making decisions on adjusting upcoming weeks and identifying abnormal demand patterns, and creating and reviewing forecasting exception reports.
• Assisting in the development of forecast error metrics at all levels of the process and achieving continuous improvement goals on forecast bias and forecast error. Ensuring that root-cause analysis and corrective actions are completed.
• Achieving and maintaining the forecasting process at Class A Planning and Control levels as determined by external consultants.
• Leading the installation of supporting software for statistical forecasting and forecast reporting. Ensuring that the system is used where appropriate for the base business. Owns, maintains, and updates the forecasting tool.
• Serving as the process owner for the demand planning process; evaluating changes that could improve results, monitoring performance of the process, surfacing and helping to resolve issues.

Other Responsibilities/Detailed Duties

• Uses statistical techniques to analyze and improve forecast accuracy, selects forecast model types, and incorporates customer-level forecast information, where appropriate.
• Uses historical data, sales pipeline information, geographic and site-specific constraints, etc., to predict the expected lift from future sales.
• Helps design, document, and implement an effective forecasting process for Americold, including metrics, procedures, timing, and responsibilities.
• Performs "What-If?" scenarios based on price, market share, and competitive data.
• Assists in achieving business goals on Forecast Bias and Error.
• Ensures that all forecasts are in the formal forecasting system.
• Maintains regular communications with Sales, Operations, and Finance personnel.
• Communicates the demand forecast and assumptions to operations and financial organizations.
• Orchestrates the overall Demand Review process.
• Schedules the Demand Review
• Coordinates the monthly Demand Planning process through gathering, organizing, and analyzing the demand data. Key inputs include:
• New construction and expansion plans
• Competitive situations
• Statistical forecast corrected for abnormal demand signals
• Business plan
• Pricing plans
• Customer plans and insights
• Maintain a log of key demand plan assumptions
• Compile a family-based aggregate, unconstrained demand plan represented in volume units and dollars.
• Facilitates the Demand Review (DR) consensus meeting, including agenda preparation, consolidation and distribution of the Demand Review deck, and the issuing of meeting minutes and action items
• Leads the Development of "what if" scenarios that test the Demand Plan's sensitivity and identify potential gap-closing solutions.
• Ensures that issues and imbalances, which occur during the monthly Demand cycle, are cross-functionally reviewed, resolved, or escalated with recommendations and alternatives for closure.
• Identifies, develops, and implements process improvement plans to optimize the Demand Management process to meet company objectives for quality, cost, responsiveness and growth.
• Monitors actual performance to plan and communicates or intervenes as appropriate
• Manages abnormal demands as they arise
• Daily liaison with Sales, Customer Service, and Operations Planning to keep the plans 'current'
• Custodian of Valid Demand Plan
• Maintains functional process step performance measures
• Leverage results from optimization outputs to develop clear and concise presentations for IBP routines for 3-12-month capacity outlook
• Work cross-functionally (category teams, demand planning, finance, co-manufacturing, supply planning etc.) to develop regional supply vs. demand gaps to develop a yearly capital investment roadmap

What Experience and Education You Need

• BA/BS degree - Business or Technical, preferably in a quantitative field
• Minimum 6 years' experience in Sales or Logistics with an emphasis on supply and demand alignment, 3 years with an MBA.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to influence.
• Salesforce experience.
• Oracle Cloud Experience.

What Could Set You Apart

• Experience with forecasting software is highly desirable.
• Experience mapping and redesigning business processes is desirable.

Physical Requirements

• Requires the ability to sit for long periods, with frequent interruptions.
• Requires several hours per day of sitting, getting up and down from chairs, and reaching, or bending.
• Requires manual dexterity with normal hand and finger movements for typical office work.
• Talking, hearing, and seeing are important elements of completing assigned tasks.
• May require travel by automobile and airplane for business.
• May require visits to warehouse operations in temperatures at or below freezing.
• May require carrying loads related to travel and the occasional lifting, carrying, positioning, and/or moving of objects weighing up to 20 pounds.
• Requires the use of various electronic tools.

Work Environment

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. The Company makes reasonable accommodations in accordance with applicable law.

What We Offer:

Our associates know the answer to the question What's in it for me? We offer best-in-class benefit programs and continuously work with our associates to ensure that our offerings meet the needs of their health and financial well-being. When you join Americold, you join a values-oriented company with a clear mission. We help our customers feed the world.

Americold is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, pregnancy, genetic information, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other protected category under applicable federal, state, and local laws.

EOE/AA M/F/D/V.

ABOUT US

Americold is a global provider of temperature-controlled infrastructure. We partner with farmers and food producers to ensure their perishable and frozen product reaches foods suppliers, restaurants, and your local grocery store without spoilage. Our customers, which include some of the most respected brands in the food industry, rely on our expertise and commitment to safety in order to deliver on their commitments.

The Corporate Planning & Management (CPM) Division unifies Finance & Planning, Spend Management, Operational Risk and Resilience, and CPM Engineering teams to deliver business planning and analytics, expense management, third party risk management, and governance strategies across the firm. CPM has five operating pillars.

Role Overview

Professionals in CPM have an analytical mindset, exhibit intellectual curiosity and are from diverse academic backgrounds. This role sits within the Spend Management pillar.

The role requires collaboration with different functions across the firm on a regular basis, an ability to work independently, and ability to interact with senior professionals across the firm. It also entails in-depth analysis and reporting for senior management, requiring diligence and a commercial mindset. The candidate is required to work closely with global counterparts. Should have excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Job Responsibilities Will Include, But Are Not Limited To:

• Work collaboratively to deploy category management techniques to develop multi-year global strategies which support the delivery of the firm's commercial and operational objectives
• Partner with business and functional leadership to understand short, medium, and long-term third-party requirements including demand management
• Support Procurement strategy creation and execution of key initiatives
• Identify and implement best practices in procurement, commercial and vendor management
• Drive supply side initiatives to reduce or contain risk, and / or create commercial and revenue generating opportunities
• Ensure appropriate contract structures / types, pricing models, vendor incentive models, service level agreements, performance indicators and cost models are applied consistently across vendors
• Partner with internal and external legal counsel to ensure proper forms of Agreement are utilized, contractor conformance with the terms and conditions of the Agreements, and refinement of Agreements as required
• Manage compliance with and provide reporting on the firm's commitments in relation to ESG
• Facilitate sharing knowledge, experiences and best practice within and across global Strategic Sourcing team
• Support compliance to the Firmwide Third Party Risk and Control Framework and associated programs
• Engage with Risk Partners across the organization (e.g., compliance, technology), as needed, to review control requirements and drive resolution of Strategic Sourcing issues
• Role based Dallas with potential for travel as required

Qualifications:

• Bachelors
• Minimum five years' experience in Strategic Sourcing and Category management, particularly in the indirect spend with a preference in corporate services sourcing, including but not limited to workplace-related services such as hospitality, property management and document management services.
• Must have strong technical, strategic and project management skills as well as a strong foundation in supply chain management, sourcing and procurement, project management vendor management legal and contracting or operational risk management

Competencies:

• Functional Expertise Understanding of strategic procurement, category management approach and procurement value proposition
• Strategic Mindset Needs to be able to effectively create category strategies with the ability to influence and guide key stakeholders with sourcing decisions. Needs to clearly understand and articulate the Procurement value proposition and demonstrate clear strategic thinking / intent within work product
• Technical Skills Demonstrates strong technical skills required for the role, pays attention to detail, takes initiative to broaden his/her knowledge and demonstrates appropriate financial/analytical skills
• Drive and Motivation Successfully handles multiple tasks, operates at pace, takes initiative to improve his/her own performance, works intensely towards extremely challenging goals and persists in the face of obstacles or setbacks
• Client and Business Focus Strong stakeholder engagement skills. Effectively handles difficult requests, builds trust, long-term relationships with clients, helps the client to identify/define needs and manages client/business expectations
• Teamwork Gives evidence of being a strong team player, collaborates with others within and across teams, encourages other team members to participate and contribute and acknowledges others' contributions

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience of successfully negotiating complex, high-profile contracts, including incentivized service level agreements
• Excellent client management skills and experience in leading projects involving a range of stakeholders.
• Track record of being a team player collaborating with others within and across teams
• Proven, strong communication, interpersonal and organizational skills
• Professional and measured approach that has creditability within industry and with peers
• Strong executive-level communication/presentation skills
• Impeccable attention to detail and excellent problem solving and analytical skills
• Strategic thinker with strong implementation ability
• Proficient with the suite of Microsoft Office software
• Experience of Sourcing procure to pay tools (Ariba, Fieldglass, PMweb)

Job Description

Company Description

Monro’s family of brands is one of the leading automotive service and tire dealers in the United States. We work on approximately five million vehicles a year, but with us, it is personal. Every guest is important, and every teammate is valued. That is our people-first approach. 

Headquartered in our hometown of Rochester, New York, where our founder, Chuck August, opened his first store in 1957, we have grown to over 1,100 auto repair shops and tire dealers in 32 states from coast to coast. Monro powers 16 highly respected tire and auto service brands, supporting each company’s regional strength and community connections. From big cities to small towns to rural crossroads, you will find us in neighborhoods of every shape, size, and color. 

Under the Monro banner, we are united TEAM and share the same mission to bring our guests the highest quality tire and auto service in the industry. 

Do you have what it takes to shape a better future for yourself and the automotive service industry? Our vision is to be America’s leading auto and tire centers, trusted by consumers as the best place in our neighborhoods for quality automotive maintenance and repairs. We’re looking for motivated individuals at every stage in their career who share our vision.

Destination Monro -Your Career is Here!

The Sr. Manager, Demand and Inventory Planning & Management is responsible for leading the organization’s end-to-end inventory planning and management processes, including demand planning, forecasting, inventory optimization and replenishment for all product categories and across Monro’s fleet of more than 1,100 stores. This role plays a critical role in aligning inventory investments with customer demand and financial targets, leveraging data, systems and partnerships with both suppliers and internal stakeholders to improve inventory availability, reduce inventory risk and drive profitability and GMROI. The Sr. Manager, Demand and Inventory Planning is responsible for managing the health and positioning of inventory across the enterprise, including identifying and mitigating inventory obsolescence risk, excess inventory and ensuring appropriate inventory levels at the SKU-Location level. This role requires close cross-functional collaboration with Merchandising and Category Management teams, Marketing, IT, Finance to drive a high-performance inventory planning and management function that scales with the needs of the business.

Compensation :  The salary range for this role is $110,000 - $120,000 annually.  This role is eligible for additional compensation and incentives.  Pay will be determined based on experience level.

Key Responsibilities

Demand Planning & Forecasting

• Own and lead the end-to-end demand planning process across key categories, partnering with Category Management, Supply Chain, and Finance.
• Lead monthly 3-way forecast collaboration sessions with key suppliers and distribution partners to ensure alignment to demand expectations and inventory needs across the entire supply chain.
• Build and maintain statistical forecasting models, adjusting for market trends, promotions, seasonality, and lifecycle status.
• Monitor forecast accuracy and bias, and drive continuous improvement through root cause analysis and corrective actions.
• Partner with Finance to ensure alignment of demand and sales expectations to financial plans and forecasts, as well as overall business performance objectives.
• Translate demand plans into rolling 12-month inventory and purchase forecasts, and provide forecasts to key supplier and distribution partners, as well as to internal Merchandising and Category Management teams, Finance and Senior Leadership.

Inventory Management

• Develop and execute inventory strategies to optimize service levels, inventory turns, and GMROI.
• Oversee item-level replenishment strategies and safety stock parameters, adjusting dynamically based on performance and risk.
• Manage inventory targets for key SKUs and categories, ensuring alignment with merchandising strategy and store execution capabilities and capacities.
• Identify and pursue opportunities for inventory rebalancing, repositioning and returns to continually drive inventory efficiency

Analytics & Reporting

• Build and enhance dashboards, KPIs, and exception-based reporting to measure and improve forecast accuracy, in-stock rates, inventory health, and supplier performance to plans.
• Leverage data to identify trends, risks, and opportunities in demand patterns and inventory position.
• Present clear, actionable insights to leadership and stakeholders to guide decision-making and improve performance.
• Ensure suppliers and distribution partners are providing accurate and timely reporting on inventory availability and outlook; work with suppliers and distribution partners to mitigate inventory availability risks via substitution, alternate sourcing, backorder prioritization and management, inventory reservation, etc…

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Partner closely with Category Managers, Merchandising, Finance, and Operations to align planning assumptions and timelines.
• Act as a key liaison between merchandising and supply chain to ensure continuity of supply and timely flow of goods.
• Lead S&OP (Sales and Operations Planning) discussions and alignment meetings as needed.

Team Leadership & Development

• Lead and develop a team of Purchasing & Replenishment Specialists, providing coaching, training, and career development support.
• Manage both onshore and offshore resources effectively, promoting collaboration and accountability across geographies.
• Foster a high-performance, data-driven culture focused on continuous improvement and operational excellence.

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Business Analytics or a related field; MBA or APICS certification preferred
• 6+ years of progressive experience in demand planning, inventory management, or supply chain analytics, preferably in a retail or wholesale environment

Knowledge & Skills :

• Demonstrated expertise with forecasting tools and ERP systems
• Strong analytical and Excel skills
• Advanced proficiency with Power BI, Tableau or similar data analytics and visualization platforms
• Proven track record of driving inventory efficiency and service level improvements through planning and inventory management best practices
• Excellent communication, leadership and cross-functional collaboration
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Proficient in business tools including Excel, PowerPoint, and merchandising analytics platforms, with the ability to create compelling business cases and data-backed recommendations 
• Critical thinking and decision-making skills grounded in data and business understanding
• Ability to effectively manage both on-shore and off-shore resources

Work Environment & Physical Requirements:

This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, scanners, and fax machines. Position requires incumbent to see, read, hear, speak, reach, bend, sit/stand for prolonged periods of time at a desk and working on a computer. Ability to work weekends and holidays as needed.

Benefits  

• Health Insurance  
• Dental Insurance 
• 401K Retirement Plan with Company Match 
• Paid vacation 
• Paid Holidays 

Your next Destination!

Growth Opportunity:

At Monro we’re committed to helping our teammates grow their career through the combination of coursework, demonstrating leadership skills and open opportunities. Our teammates receive on-the-job training, company sponsored certifications, as well as course curriculum in Monro University that empowers them to advance to the next level of their careers.

Monro, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer and affords equal opportunity to all applicants for all positions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

The Budget and Capital Program Management Division within the Department of Transportation is seeking to fill the position of Associate Commissioner for Budget and Capital Program Management. The candidate will be responsible for managing the agency's $33 billion Ten-Year Capital Plan, $.5 billion annual operating budget, and nearly 500 million revenues. Candidate will be responsible for providing executive level direction to the professional budget staff in the preparation and administration of the DOT Expense and Capital budgets. Advice the Executive Deputy Commissioner and senior agency management on resource allocation and funding prioritization decisions. Facilitate coordination with other DOT divisions as well as oversight agencies to ensure that sufficient funds are available to fulfill the agency's core mission, to bring the agency's bridge, roadway, ferry and traffic assets to a state of good repair, and to meet the goals of DOT's Sustainable Streets Strategic Plan and other Mayoral directives involving DOT. Manage all budget submissions to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB); manage the preparation of the agency's submissions for the Financial Plan, Capital Commitment Plan, Ten Year Capital Strategy, etc., and liaise with OMB to secure approval for DOT priorities. Ensure the proper execution of various funding requests to OMB, including budget modifications, commitment forecast/plan approvals, and Certificates to Proceed. Manage and provide guidance on the conduct of analysis, data gathering, research, and studies required to support funding requests and to obtain optimum efficiency in the utilization of capital and expense-budget funding allocations. Coordinate with Managers to verify that all agency entries are being completed in the Citys Financial Management System (FMS) by professional staff to properly plan, budget, authorize, and monitor commitments, encumbrances and spending. Lead and guide staff in collecting and reporting key budget indicators for oversight purposes. Work with DDC, EDC, and other partner agencies to make sure project initiation documents align with agency goals and driving street reconstruction projects forward. Drive the division's adoption of new tools to enhance budget management, streamline processes, and improve the dissemination of budget information. Represent the Budget and Capital Program Management Division in executive staff meetings on budget-related matters.

The City of New York is an inclusive equal opportunity employer committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce and providing a work environment that is free from discrimination and harassment based upon any legally protected status or protected characteristic, including but not limited to an individual's sex, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status, gender identity, or pregnancy.

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What We Do

Job Description

What We Do

Corporate Planning & Management (CPM) manages the firm's liquidity, capital, and risk, and provides the overall financial control and reporting function. CPM unifies Finance & Planning, Spend Management, Operational Risk and Resilience, and CPM Engineering teams to deliver business planning and analytics, expense management, third party risk management, sustainability strategy for our operations and supply chain, and governance strategies across the firm.

Within CPM, Spend Platform Engineering provides solutions that enable the firm to manage third-party spend, data and automation, plan budgets, forecast financial scenarios, allocate expenses, and support corporate decision making in-line with the firm's strategic objectives.

Who We Look For

Our people come from a range of disciplines, including finance, management, engineering, political science, communications, the arts and sciences, and many more. We're looking for candidates who will thrive in a dynamic environment and are motivated to create meaningful impact in everything they do. You should be comfortable working in a team and be a curious, analytical thinker. Strong communication and interpersonal skills are important in order to work successfully with internal clients and team members globally.

Above all we value integrity, a strong work ethic and a desire for excellence from our people.

Basic Qualifications

• Basic Qualifications:
• Advanced degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Electrical Engineering, or related technical discipline.
• 10+ years' experience in software development, including a clear understanding of data structures, algorithms, software design, and core programming concepts.
• 2+ years of experience in managing the team of 4+ developers.
• Experience with cloud technologies and databases, preferably AWS
• Experience with microservice architecture patterns, automated testing, CI/CD
• Experience with programming languages such as Java / Python (Java experience is preferable)
• Experience with designing, building and using Restful APIs
• Experience in building robust data pipelines, data models and related data integration layers
• Comfortable multi-tasking, communicating with global stakeholders, and working as part of a team.
• Excellent communication skills. A willingness to learn and adopt new technologies including the firms propriety technologies Willing to apply an entrepreneurial approach and passion to problem solving and product development.
  
  

• Experience in designing highly scalable, efficient systems
• Experience using AI (closed or open-sourced models) to build document digitization and data analysis applications
• Experience using AI prompts, RAG based patterns, Langchain, vector databases
• Experience with advanced libraries and services eg: Pytorch, Polars, Tensorflow, AWS Sagemaker, AWS TexTract.
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases (DynamoDB, Snowflake, PostgreSQL).
• Experience with AWS services such as ECS Fargate, Lambdas, AWS IAM, AWS CDK.
• Experience working with and integrating third party SaaS products and services.
• Experience with messaging infrastructure such as Kafka, SNS/SQS, Kinesis is a plus.
• Experience in Financial Services or FinTech and familiarity with financial markets and assets is a plus.
• Experience with Contracting (Contract Lifecycle Management) tools or Spend Management domain tools is a plus.
  
  

• Seniority level Mid-Senior level

• Employment type Full-time

• Job function Engineering and Information Technology

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