Required Skills & Experience
- 5+ years of experience as a Business Systems Analyst, Functional Analyst, or similar role supporting SAP supply chain planning solutions.
- Hands-on expertise with SAP IBP Demand Planning, including planning areas, planning levels, key figures, forecasting models, statistical forecasting, consensus planning, and planning operators.
- Strong understanding of demand planning, forecasting, S&OP, and end-to-end supply chain planning processes within SAP environments.
- Experience gathering requirements, documenting business processes, facilitating stakeholder discussions, and translating business needs into scalable functional and technical solutions.
- Experience with SAP S/4HANA integrations and enterprise planning ecosystems, including master data, transactional data, system dependencies, testing, production support, and continuous improvement.
Nice to Have Skills & Experience
- Experience with SAP IBP Demand Planning implementations, Demand Sensing, or forecasting optimization initiatives, with exposure to technologies such as BW/4HANA, BPC, CPI-DS, Control-M, or SAP Analytics Cloud.
Job Description
We are seeking a Senior Technical Business Systems Analyst to support and optimize SAP IBP Demand Planning capabilities within a global supply chain organization. This individual will serve as the primary functional and technical analyst for Demand Planning, partnering with Product Managers, Global Process Owners, business stakeholders, architects, and development teams to deliver forecasting and planning solutions that improve forecast accuracy, business alignment, and supply chain performance.
The ideal candidate will combine deep SAP IBP Demand Planning expertise with strong business analysis, solution design, integration, and process improvement skills. This role will support current-state forecasting operations while helping define future-state capabilities across SAP IBP, SAP S/4HANA, BW/4HANA, BPC, and related planning technologies.
Key Responsibilities:
- Serve as the primary functional and technical analyst for SAP IBP Demand Planning, supporting forecasting processes, statistical forecasting, consensus demand planning, demand sensing, and demand planning optimization.
- Partner with Product Managers, business stakeholders, and technical teams to gather requirements, define solutions, and prioritize enhancements aligned to business and supply chain objectives.
- Analyze and document current-state processes, system architecture, integrations, data flows, forecasting models, and future-state capabilities across SAP planning platforms.
- Evaluate planning effectiveness, identify opportunities to improve forecast accuracy, forecast visibility, and business alignment, and recommend scalable solutions.
- Support solution delivery through design validation, testing, user acceptance, deployments, and post-go-live support activities.
- Troubleshoot production issues, forecasting discrepancies, integration failures, and planning process challenges while driving continuous improvement and operational stability.
- Act as a domain steward for Demand Planning capabilities, supporting roadmap planning, architecture decisions, governance processes, and supply chain transformation initiatives.