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INTRODUCTION

You want more out of a career. A place to share your ideas freely — even if they’re daring or different. Where the true you can learn, grow, and thrive. At Verizon, we power and empower how people live, work and play by connecting them to what brings them joy. We do what we love — driving innovation, creativity, and impact in the world. Our V Team is a community of people who anticipate, lead, and believe that listening is where learning begins. In crisis and in celebration, we come together — lifting our communities and building trust in how we show up, everywhere & always. Want in? Join the #VTeamLife.

ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Collaborate with internal & external stakeholders to develop and drive continuous improvement in the efficiency and accuracy of the collaborative planning, forecasting and replenishment processes within assigned National Retail partner Walmart. In this role, you will drive the “end to end” forecasting and replenishment process; ensuring internal controls are in place to develop and deliver forecasted products through our fulfillment centers and forward logistics to meet retailer designated SLA requirements.

Schedule and participate in synchronization meetings with Sales, Finance, Supply Chain Management and assigned retail partners to track variance between the company's sales forecast and retail partner's forecast to drive CPFR efficiency.

Responsibilities:

• Developing and maintaining performance-based store tiering/segmentation, as well as allocation and disposition processes.
• Collaborating with a third party fulfillment center for inventory availability and liaison between fulfillment center and retailer to ensure compliance for on time order shipment.
• Creating strategies and tracking KPI performance to drive continuous improvement against JBP objectives (e.g. forecast accuracy, hit rate, days on hand, IS/OSA, OTIF).
• Designing, maintaining, and automating KPI dashboards by leveraging internal systems retailer portals.
• Driving analysis of sales, financial and operational performance data (e.g., modeling, predictive analytics) to identify key insights and opportunities to improve forecast accuracy.
• Collaborating to build the sales and shipment forecast.
• Aligning forecast assumptions in support of special events (e.g. new product launches, MOD transitions, marquee events).
• Managing gaps between customer POs and retail forecasts.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

You’ll need to have:

• Bachelor's degree or four or more years of work experience.
• Three or more years of relevant experience required, demonstrated through work experience and/or military experience.
• Experience in operations, demand planning, replenishment, outbound supply chain, and/or a relevant analytics role.
• Forecasting experience using a variety of methods to advise future-state planning.
• Willingness to travel approximately up to 25%.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Even better if you have one or more of the following:

• Team-oriented and strong interpersonal capabilities; ability to build relationships (internal/external) and interact effectively with other departments and levels of business affecting the forecast process.
• Excellent analytical skills and ability to multitask.
• Process-oriented and ability to contribute to continuous improvement.
• Experience with aggregating and summarizing large amounts of historical data and identifying trends or business opportunities.
• SQL Expertise.
• Advanced knowledge of Power BI and Query.
• Mastery of MS Excel required - VBA preferred.
• Knowledge of data warehousing.
• Retail, E-com, or startup experience.
• Statistical modeling (Linear Regression/K-means).
• Strong leadership skills and outgoing personality.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.

If Verizon and this role sound like a fit for you, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every “even better” qualification listed above.

LOCATION

In this hybrid role, you'll have a defined work location that includes working from home and a minimum of three days per week in the office, which will be set by your manager. Employees are responsible for maintaining compliance with hybrid work policies.

SCHEDULED WEEKLY HOURS

40

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

Verizon is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to veteran status, disability or other legally protected characteristics.

BENEFITS AND COMPENSATION

Our benefits are designed to help you move forward in your career, and in areas of your life outside of Verizon. From health and wellness benefit options including: medical, dental, vision, short and long term disability, basic life insurance, supplemental life insurance, AD&D insurance, identity theft protection, pet insurance and group home & auto insurance. We also offer a matched 401(k) savings plan, up to 8 company paid holidays per year and up to 6 personal days per year, paid parental leave, adoption assistance and tuition assistance, plus other incentives, we’ve got you covered with our award-winning total rewards package. Depending on the role, employees have the opportunity to receive compensation in the form of premium pay such as overtime, shift differential, holiday pay, allowances, etc. Newly hired employees receive up to 15 days of vacation per year, which grows with additional service. For part-timers, your coverage will vary as you may be eligible for some of these benefits depending on your individual circumstances.

The salary will vary depending on your location and confirmed job-related skills and experience. This is an incentive based position with the potential to earn more. For part-time roles, your compensation will be adjusted to reflect your hours.