Sr Manager, Analytics US Category Forecasting

Job Description
Are You Ready to Make It Happen at Mondelēz International?
Join our Mission to Lead the Future of Snacking. Make It Possible.
You will oversee all US category forecasting activities as a key input to monthly (IBP), annual (Annual Contract), and strategic (SGP, SP, V2030) processes, driving alignment with cross-functional teams. In addition, you will provide key inputs into various forums such as MPR, BPR and DR.
How you will contribute
You will:

• Manage US category forecasting process to produce unbiased outputs for monthly (IBP), annual (AC), and strategic (SGP, SP, V2030) processes over a 24-month period with properly documented assumptions and a higher-level outlook for three years hence.
• Governance forum and integration with category and channel teams
• Regular model maintenance (models, techniques, parameters, coefficients, variables, data sources).
• Systematically monitor macroeconomic, competitive, and industry developments.
• Partner with senior commercial, finance, and supply chain leadership to quantify and validate risks and opportunities to close gaps between the forecast and actuals.
• Lead the quarterly (and ad-hoc) governance forum process to align on and coordinate the appropriate assumptions for the category forecasts.
• Continuously improve the US category forecasting approach and process.
• Support prep for business reviews such as, MPR, BPR, DR.
• Migrate infrastructure to GCP/Other products (data pipeline, visualization, reporting).
• Build forecast models for strategic adjacent categories.
• Refining the channel model and variable assumption methodology.
• Work on development of custom models/algorithms to uncover signals/patterns and trends to drive long-term business performance.
• Apply your expertise in analysis of data with high volumes, velocities and variety (numbers, symbols, text, sound and image). In addition, you will develop forward-looking, predictive, real-time, model-based insights to create value and drive effective decision making.
• Understand the identification, validation and exploitation of internal and external data sets generated from a diverse range of functional processes and in general you will be an expert in functional data.

What you will bring
A desire to drive your future and accelerate your career and the following experience and knowledge:

• Bachelor's degree required. MBA or Masters in Analytics, Finance, Economics, or related areas preferred.
• 7+ years of experience in finance, commercial, marketing, and/or supply chain.
• Comprehensive supply chain, economic, financial or logistics experience and strong business acumen, ideally in a fast-moving consumer goods or consumer goods environment.
• Strong quantitative skillset with experience using data analysis to make recommendations to senior leaders.
• A natural inclination and curiosity for solving complex problems while balancing art and science.
• Strategic agility, able to drive for cross-functional results by proactively understanding and managing key issues and success criteria and prioritizing accordingly.
• Excellent problem-solving skills, analytical skills, and verbal and written communication skills.
• Understanding of advanced analytics platforms like R, Python, SQL, Alteryx, etc.
• Experience in generating dashboards and manipulating data visualization KPIs (Power BI, Tableau).

What you need to know about this position:
This is a highly visible position that will require both strong technical/modelling skills and strong presentation skills with senior leadership
What extra ingredients you will bring:
Passion for data/analytics, joy in building data models, and intellectual curiosity to continue to learn more advanced practices
Education / Certifications:
Advanced degree in Analytics, Mathematics, Economics preferred, Bachelors degree required
Job specific requirements:
Ability to run, build and explain data models (Regression, SARIMA etc), strong Microsoft Excel Skills, and strong presentation skills with senior leadership
Travel requirements:
Less than 5%
Work schedule:
Monday to Friday, Hybrid in office 1-2 days per week in East Hanover, NJ or Chicago, IL
No Relocation support available
Business Unit Summary
The United States is the largest market in the Mondelēz International family with a significant employee and manufacturing footprint. Here, weproduce our well-loved household favorites to provide our consumers with the right snack, at the right moment, made the right way. We have corporate offices, sales, manufacturing and distribution locations throughout the U.S. to ensure our iconic brands-including Oreo and Chips Ahoy! cookies, Ritz , Wheat Thins and Triscuit crackers, and Swedish Fish and Sour Patch Kids confectionery products -are close at hand for our consumers across the country.
Mondelēz Global LLC is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law. Applicants who require accommodation to participate in the job application process may contact 847-943-5460 for assistance.
Job Type
Regular
Analytics & Modelling
Analytics & Data Science