Sr Functional Consultant _Demand Planning (D244)

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)