Senior Manager Order Forecasting

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. #LI-AG1 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: $105,100 - $147,100 Annual Bonus Eligibility Comprehensive Benefits Package Paid Time Off 401k & Company Match The posted salary range reflects the range the Company reasonably expects to pay for this position. Actual starting salary will be determined based on internal pay equity to promote consistency and fairness across comparable roles, while also considering the candidate’s relevant experience and qualifications. Position Summary: The Senior Manager Order Forecasting will be focused on leading a regional forecast planning and communication team that guides the ION system and frontline in creating their orders for BBU product. The role will oversee the data governance from account, brand and customer teams into BBU systems that present a suggested product order to the delivery frontline. The analysis, communication and validation of this data is time sensitive and is key to a large portion of BBUs success and ability to service customers and consumers with our product offerings. This role will be operated at a regional level as a peer to other Senior Managers of Order Forecasting in other regions to create best practices for the Order Forecasting Specialists and the frontline in terms of order and delivery behaviors. The role will also aid as a liaison between the technology, brand and account teams to inform order forecasting specialists of events, system changes or other operational considerations for key events and market execution. Key Job Responsibilities: Lead regional team of order forecasting specialists focused on taking 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. Responsible for the weekly planning of Mass and Club stores for the assigned area. Coordinates major initiatives with national and regional customer teams, corporate brand teams, manufacturing and supply chain teams to understand key initiatives in terms of scope, priority, and expected outcome. Manage potential discrepancies between the customer and brand planning teams to set expectations based on forecasting outcomes guided by data and experience. Assist order forecasting specialists in data analysis of events and suggested volume orders for events and weekly ordering by the frontline. Assist and guide order forecasting specialists in communications to the frontline and other stakeholders about events and product volume ordering needs to ensure the best possible success in achieving profitability and growth while maintaining high freshness of DSD product. Lead regional team in measurement of quality through data governance process for inputs needed by the forecast system. Responsibilities include collaboration with other stakeholders and collecting data from multiple sources, ensuring the accurate collection and entry of information to produce accurate forecasts as well as to measure execution. Guide the development team as needed with inputs on data entity expansion. Provides inputs to DSDE Technology team members, technical staff as needed to identify, outline, and collaborate on potential enhan…

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