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Order Forecasting Specialist

Bimbo Bakeries USA, Inc

  • Charlotte, North Carolina
  • 30+ days ago

    Highlights

    Coordinates on major initiatives with national and regional customer teams, corporate brand teams, regional or local sales teams, manufacturing and supply chain teams to understand key initiatives in terms of scope, priority, and expected outcome. The Specialist Order Forecasting will be charged with understanding the customer needs and workflow, prioritizing functionality, evaluating vendors, writing epics and user stories to deliver solutions in an Agile process.
    Bimbo Bakeries USA, Inc

    Numbers & Facts

    LocationCharlotte, North Carolina
    IndustryOther/Not Classified
    Company Size5,000 to 9,999 employees
    Year Founded1993
    Websitewww.bimbobakeriesusa.com

    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.
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    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: $91,500 - $119,000
    Annual Bonus Eligibility
    Comprehensive Benefits Package
    Paid Time Off
    401k & Company Match
    Position Summary:
    The Specialist Order Forecasting will support the Bimbo Bakeries USA business by defining and executing to bring world-class technology solutions to nationwide sales professional leaders and enable product sales growth and market execution excellence. This position will work with internal and partner vendor technology and development teams to prototype, test, evaluate and create or customize hardware and software solutions. The Specialist Order Forecasting will be charged with understanding the customer needs and workflow, prioritizing functionality, evaluating vendors, writing epics and user stories to deliver solutions in an Agile process. This role will also work with operational and other sales teams to test and deploy these solutions across the entire sales team, collecting and prioritizing feedback and issues for resolution. The Specialist Order Forecasting will become the DSD Excellence team's "voice of the customer" for the market sales leader for any hardware and software solutions they use. The position will also provide technical support for sales technology and applications; both to assist end users as well as participating in field tests of new releases and solutions to ensure effective in-market capabilities.
    Key Job Responsibilities:
    • Focus in a specific regional area, on individual customers and stores to validate and adapt 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.
    • Coordinates on major initiatives with national and regional customer teams, corporate brand teams, regional or local sales teams, manufacturing and supply chain teams to understand key initiatives in terms of scope, priority, and expected outcome. Ensure data governance of upstream systems that input to the order forecasting system to generate appropriate suggested frontline customer order volumes. Leads recurring coordination meetings.
    • Manage potential discrepancies between the customer and brand planning teams or sales leadership to set expectations based on forecasting outcomes guided by data and experience.
    • Assist the frontline by modifying specific suggested order volume or communicating the need for frontline focus in areas based on data analysis of events and suggested volume orders for events and weekly ordering.
    • Assist the frontline, local sales teams, operational supply chain efforts to achieve increased growth and freshness t

    About Company

    Bimbo Bakeries USA is a leader in the baking industry, known for its category leading brands, innovative products, freshness and quality. As part of Grupo Bimbo, the world’s largest baking company, BBU is proud to share the company philosophyHighly Productive and Deeply Humane in the U.S.

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