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Senior Functional Consultant, Demand Planning

  • algoleap
  • Bengaluru, India
  • INR 3,000,000 – INR 5,000,000

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Must have

6+Industry experience

4+ Functional Demand planning experience

1-2years o9 platform along with o9 Certifications

End to End Implementations minimum 1

Key Responsibilities

  • Gather and analyze business requirements for Demand Planning, Forecasting, and Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP/IBP).
  • Lead functional workshops and translate business requirements into o9 solution designs.
  • Configure and implement o9 Demand Planning modules, including forecasting, planning hierarchies, planning levels, and workflows.
  • Configure forecasting models, demand sensing, segmentation, and consensus planning processes.
  • Design planning workflows, alerts, KPIs, dashboards, and planner workbenches within the o9 platform.
  • Collaborate with technical teams on data integration, APIs, ETL processes, and master data management.
  • Prepare functional specifications and support technical development.
  • Execute System Integration Testing (SIT), User Acceptance Testing (UAT), and production validation.
  • Support data validation, reconciliation, and production deployments.
  • Train business users and provide post-go-live support.
  • Identify opportunities to improve planning processes and solution performance.
  • Support change requests, enhancements, and production issue resolution.

Required Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Supply Chain, Information Technology, Business, or a related field.
  • 4–10+ years of Supply Chain Planning experience.
  • At least 2–5 years of hands-on experience implementing o9 platform Demand Planning along with o9 Trainings and Certifications
  • Strong understanding of demand planning and forecasting business processes.
  • Experience in end-to-end implementation lifecycle, from requirements gathering through hypercare.
  • Experience working with global supply chain organizations.
  • Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.

Required Functional Skills

  • Demand Planning
  • Statistical Forecasting
  • Consensus Forecasting
  • Forecast Consumption
  • Demand Sensing
  • Promotion Planning
  • Lifecycle Planning
  • Product Hierarchies
  • Customer Hierarchies
  • Planning Calendars
  • Planning Levels
  • Version Management
  • Scenario Planning
  • S&OP / Integrated Business Planning (IBP)
  • Supply Chain Planning concepts
  • Inventory Planning fundamentals

o9 Platform Skills

  • o9 Digital Brain Platform
  • Demand Planning module configuration
  • Enterprise Knowledge Graph (EKG)
  • Planning Dimensions and Hierarchies
  • Measures and KPIs
  • Dashboards and Workspaces
  • Task Flows
  • Business Rules
  • Security and User Roles
  • Data Validation
  • Workflow Configuration
  • Master Data Configuration
  • Model Testing
  • Solution Deployment

Technical Knowledge (Preferred)

  • SQL
  • Python (preferred)
  • JSON
  • REST APIs
  • Data Integration concepts
  • ETL processes
  • Azure or AWS (preferred)
  • Power BI or Tableau
  • Excel (Advanced)

Preferred Certifications

  • o9 Solutions Functional Certification
  • APICS CPIM
  • APICS CSCP
  • Agile/Scrum Certification (preferred)

Skills

  • O9 Solutions
  • Demand Planning
  • S&OP / IBP
  • Forecasting
  • Supply Chain Planning
  • UAT/SIT Testing
  • Data Integration

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