Sr Functional Consultant _Demand Planning (D244)

JD 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)