at Oracle in Springfield, Illinois, United States
Job Description
Job Description
Job Description
At Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), we build the future of the cloud for Enterprises as a team with varied strengths of fellow creators and inventors. We act with the speed and demeanor of a start-up, with the scale and customer-focus of the leading enterprise software company in the world.Values are OCI’s foundation and how we deliver excellence. We strive for equity, inclusion, and respect for all. We are committed to the greater good in our products and our actions. We are constantly learning and taking opportunities to grow our careers and ourselves. We challenge each other to stretch beyond our past to build our future.You are the builder here. You will be part of a team of really hard-working, motivated, and a diverse set of people and given the autonomy and support to do your best work. It is a dynamic and flexible workplace where you’ll belong and be encouraged.
We’re seeking a Principal Demand Planner who designs and implements a stocking strategy to optimize resource utilization, improve performance and ensure high availability of cloud infrastructure. An ideal candidate possesses a deep experience in understanding emerging business needs, developing data analytics, creating scenario analysis, and partnering with supply management functions. The Principal Demand Planner possesses advanced knowledge of process improvement, and actively drives iteration and new takeaways into the inputs and methods for strategic inventory management including buffering demand, warehousing, and optimizing field inventory.
Responsibilities:
+ Develop, iterate, and maintain a buffer-stocking strategy at the customer, initiative, SKU, and geo level. The plan will enable OCI to meet growing/shifting customer demand by predicting and mitigating risks of shifts to planned demand and supply.
+ Iterate on stocking strategy based on performance metrics, feedback loops, strategic goals, business trends, and inputs from customers
+ Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather requirements and drive alignment on policies that meet business objectives.
+ Identify risks and develop prioritized, effective, flexible, and durable mitigation strategies.
+ Facilitate healthy balance between long range planning and short-term execution. Understand end to end supply chain flow to help ensure customer demand is met.
+ Collaborate with product management to understand product lifecycle, transition, and how that impacts the stocking strategy.
+ Provide direct inputs and analysis of data to management, finance, and operational teams in creating and maintaining the corporate S&OP process.
+ Develop routine and ad-hoc demand analyses and reports for senior management.
+ Develop and analyze performance metrics to find opportunities for improvement and corrective action.
+ Develop standardized processes that include feedback loops to enable continuous improvements. Develop vision and requirements to automate standardized processes.
Required Qualifications:
+ Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Supply Chain Management, Engineering, or related fields
+ 5+ years’ relevant experience within demand planning, capacity planning or forecasting
+ Extensive experience in developing demand plans and forecasts for new and existing products
+ Understand impact of revenue goals, customer usage, overhead and buffer, data center space and power availability on capacity management.
+ Demonstrate excellent analytical skills and meet deadlines with a strong desire to execute tasks with quality and a sense of urgency.
+ Advanced in Excel modeling and building complex forecasting models with multiple inputs to drive recommendations and decisions
+ Ability to both dive deep into data and synthesize findings and insights for exec level communication
+ Expert in Excel data analytics to drive action and outcome
+ Experienced in working with VPs and Executives
+ Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex information in a clear and concise manner to a variety of audiences.
+ Proven ability to meet tight deadlines and prioritize workloads.
+ Ability to work with technical and non-technical business owners to overcome obstacles and deliver results.
+ Experienced with infrastructure hardware, memory, CPU, JBoDs, servers, etc. Ability to read and interpret product BOM and documentation.
Preferred Qualifications:
+ Strong understanding of cloud computing concepts and technologies.
+ Thrive in ambiguity and ability to make high judgement decisions from ambiguous context.
+ Ability to translate large amounts of data into useful information and draw conclusions.
+ Maintain key operational metrics that measure demand planning performance driving continuous improvement.
+ Experience with building and improving business processes.
+ Working proficiency of SQL.
About Us
Innovation starts with inclusion at Oracle. We are committed to creating a workplace where all kinds of people can be themselves and do their best work. It’s when everyone’s voice is heard and valued, that we are inspired to go beyond what’s been done before. That’s why we need people with diverse backgrounds, beliefs, and abilities to help us create the future, and are proud to be an affirmative-action equal opportunity employer.
Oracle is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability and protected veterans status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law. Oracle will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records pursuant to applicable law.
Career Level – IC4
Responsibilities
Responsibilities:
+ Develop, iterate, and maintain a buffer-stocking strategy at the customer, initiative, SKU, and geo level. The plan will enable OCI to meet growing/shifting customer demand by predicting and mitigating risks of shifts to planned demand and supply.
+ Iterate on stocking strategy based on performance metrics, feedback loops, strategic goals, business trends, and inputs from stakeholders
+ Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather requirements and drive alignment on policies that meet business objectives.
+ Identify risks and develop prioritized, effective, flexible, and durable mitigation strategies.
+ Facilitate healthy balance between long range planning and short-term execution. Understand end to end supply chain flow to help ensure customer demand is met.
+ Collaborate with product management to understand product lifecycle, transition, and how that impacts the stocking strategy.
+ Provide direct inputs and analysis of data to management, finance, and operational teams in creating and maintaining the corporate S&OP process.
+ Develop routine and ad-hoc demand analyses and reports for senior management.
+ Develop and analyze performance metrics to identify opportunities for improvement and corrective action.
+ Develop standardized processes that include feedback loops to enable continuous improvements. Develop vision and requirements to automate standardized processes.
Disclaimer:
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Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only
US: Hiring Range: from $87,800 to $199,500 per annum. May be eligible for bonus and equity.
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