You know the moment. It’s the first notes of that song you love, the intro to your favorite movie, or simply the sound of someone you love saying “hello.” It’s in these moments that sound matters most.
At Bose, we believe sound is the most powerful force on earth. We’ve dedicated ourselves to improving it for nearly 60 years. And we’re passionate down to our bones about making whatever you’re listening to a little more magical.
At Bose, we are constantly learning and constantly curious. We never stop imagining what better sound sounds like. The Product team leads the transformation of ideas through research, design, development, marketing, and sales, unleashing the transformative power of sound and delivering the best products on the market.
Job Description
Job Description
Role:
The Global Supply Chain Planning team is seeking an experienced Supply Chain Account Manager to support our European Sales Channels. The candidate will possess strong analytical and problem-solving skills and a proven ability to deliver data driven insights and recommendations.
The SAM’s primary goal is to drive a timely, accurate and complete forecast to enable our Sales Channel to achieve revenue targets while seeking to continuously improve forecast accuracy to enable Supply Planning to optimize inventory levels. The SAM needs to leverage both their analytical skills as well as their influence and collaboration skills to partner closely across Sales, Business Planning, Finance and Global Supply Chain to drive the consensus demand planning cycle ensuring that all assumptions impacting the demand plan are aligned to. A strong collaboration with Order Management is also required.
Additional responsibilities include supporting the development of new product volumes and launch plans and providing insightful sales analysis to help explain business results, identify risks and opportunities and measure key performance indicators. Furthermore, the SAM has to identify opportunities with regards to Supply Chain Processes like logistics, order quantities and warehousing.
The above requires the ideal candidate to develop a strong business acumen and strong relationships across a wide variety of stakeholders to optimize business results.
Responsibilities:
Lead the Account Demand Consensus Cycle as part of the overarching S&OP:
- Develop and maintain demand forecasts for assigned account responsibilities, incorporating inputs from sales, marketing, and other relevant stakeholders
- Analyze historical sales data, market trends, and customer behavior and utilize that information as input into a more accurate forecast
- Develop and maintain a deep understanding of assigned customer order patterns and nuances to their business and incorporate those learnings into the forecast
- Collaborate with the Product team to incorporate promotional activities, product launches, and other relevant “marketing related” events into demand forecasts
- Work closely with Supply Planning to ensure alignment between demand forecasts and inventory management strategy
- Regularly review forecast accuracy and make adjustments as necessary to improve forecasting performance; Communicate accuracy on a regular basis to relevant Sales stakeholders and drive a culture of continuous improvement
- Identify potential risks and opportunities through the consensus process and develop strategies with Sales to mitigate risks and capitalize on opportunities
- Report and provide analysis on insights into demand trends, forecast accuracy, and inventory performance
- Have an understanding of how to manage a statistical forecasting models, select best fit models, and clean history to provide a better input into future stat forecasts
- Ability to seamlessly switch between account level (Sales) views and product line level (Product) views of analysis depending on the audience
Location:
Hybrid working; 3 days per week at the office; Soho, London
Education and Experience: Bachelor in Business, Finance, Economics or Operations, extensive experience in demand planning, supply chain, or account management.
Key Skills:
Excellent verbal and written communication
Analytical: Needs strong analytical skill set to work using different sources of information
Strong personality: Able to listen, influence and negotiate with primary business stakeholders
Self-motivated, self-starter and ability to work independently Proficient in Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint)
Solid Knowledge in one or more of the following areas:
- Sales & Operation Process
- Supply Value Chain
- Kinaxis/RapidResponse
- SAP
- Forecasting
Our goal is to create an atmosphere where every candidate feels supported and empowered in the interviewing process. Diversity and inclusion are integral to our success, and we believe that providing reasonable accommodation is not only a legal obligation but also a fundamental aspect of our commitment to being an employer of choice. We recognize that individuals may have different needs and requirements based on their abilities, and we provide reasonable accommodations to ensure ideal conditions are met during the application process.
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What We Do
Bose Corporation was founded in 1964 by Dr. Amar G. Bose, then a professor of electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Today, the company is driven by its founding principles, investing in long-term research with one fundamental goal: to develop new technologies with real customer benefits. Bose innovations have spanned decades and industries, creating and transforming categories in audio and beyond. Bose products for the home, in the car, on the go and in public spaces have become iconic, changing the way people listen to music.
