Demand Forecast Analyst

Date: Nov 3, 2024

Location: Taipei, TW, 105

Company: Corning

Role Purpose

Manage customer demand forecast and work with cross functions to ensure sales target is achieved. Improve commercial process effectiveness.

Key Responsibilities

• Be a liaison between Division demand planning team and regional commercial teams for demand analysis and forecast.

• Provide sales plan at detail level for supply planning in a monthly basis

• Work closely with Regional Commercial teams to understand assumptions of customer demand forecast and the latest insights of market dynamics .

• Communicate demand changes or trends to relevant stakeholders, ensuring all counterparts are informed of significant shifts.

• Support monthly closing and work with functional groups to ensure JV closing are well aligned.

• Maintain forecasting models and analyze various demand statements to identify patterns, trends and demand fluctuations.

• Investigate the causes of demand variances and adjust future forecasts to improve accuracy.

• Support ad-hoc requests and enhance process efficiency by using tools for digitalization.

Education/ Experience

• Bachelor's degree or above - MBA or Master's Degree in business-related fields.

• At least 2+ years of relevant work experience in Commercial, Finance or SCM function; ideally in a position requiring data analysis.

Skills

Required Skills:

• Advanced excel skills to support data analysis and sales forecast management.

• Attention to details and be able to handle multi tasks under high pressure environment.

• Work independently and respond quickly to the requests.

• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively.

• Strong ownership to assigned role & responsibility.

• Fluent in written and spoken English.

Desired Skills:

• Familiar with Microsoft's tools suite, such as Power BI, Power Platform and Power Query to create dashboard.

• Cross-function work experience.

• Capable of understanding data from business insights.