Product Analyst Demand Planning

External Job Boards

External Job Boards is seeking a Product Analyst for Demand Planning to join their product development organization. This role is vital in addressing customer needs through detailed analysis, documentation, and collaboration with product managers and software developers. The team specializes in areas like demand and supply planning, data science, and integration, striving to create smart and scalable solutions for complex supply chain challenges.

In this role you can expect to have the responsibilities:

• Improving core product functions such as network design, demand management, S&OP, operational planning, scheduling, cloud, and data management.
• Gathering new business requirements in collaboration with product consultants and experts.
• Writing detailed descriptions of future functionalities and user stories.
• Explaining business benefits of new developments to software engineers.
• Guiding new software developments through their lifecycle.
• Validating solutions and functionalities with different stakeholders.
• Providing specialist product support to implementation consultants.
• Building prototypes with generic cross-industry potential for specific customer problems.

This role comes with the following benefits:

• Talent management program supporting personal development.
• Opportunities to grow into roles like solution architect, product expert, product manager, or team manager.

This role requires you to have:

• Master's or PhD degree in Engineering, Business Administration, Applied Economics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or similar.
• Great analytical skills and problem-solving abilities.
• Ability to translate real-life challenges into workable software models.
• Strong affinity with IT systems.
• Basic programming skills.
• Skills to conceive and develop technical documentation.
• Desire to take ownership of work.
• Ability to master details while keeping a global overview.
• Comfortable working under pressure with firm deadlines.

You would benefit from having:

• 1 to 3 years of relevant experience in a supply chain planning function or as a business, product, or functional analyst.
• Knowledge of agile and scrum methodology.
• Experience with SQL.
• Affinity with mathematical modeling and/or machine learning techniques.
• Prior experience in core industries.