Product & Agile Delivery

• Support the Product Owner in backlog management, refinement, and prioritization.
• Translate business needs into user stories, functional requirements, and acceptance criteria.
• Ensure requirements meet Definition of Ready (DoR) standards.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies (refinement, sprint planning, reviews, retrospectives).
• Validate deliveries according to Definition of Done (DoD).

Road mapping & Solution Design

Understand business objectives, pain points, improvement opportunities, frame problems and value hypotheses.

• Build implementation of roadmaps/release plans aligned with business priorities and industry best practices.
• Conduct fit–gap and options analysis; design solutions that prefer out‑of‑the‑box and configurable capabilities of planning tools, minimizing custom build.
• Define requirements for baseline and solution design (process, data, configuration) and contribute to high-level plans for releases and workstreams.

Business & Stakeholder Interaction

• Act as the key interface between planning users and IT & Data teams.
• Clarify functional questions and support business decision making.
• Communicate system changes, fixes, and enhancements to stakeholders.
• Contribute to change management activities during releases and rollouts.

Planning Processes (Demand and/or Supply)

Depending on experience and placement, support processes such as:

• Forecast creation, adjustments, and performance monitoring.
• Product lifecycle management (NPI, phase-in / phase-out).
• Network & production planning, master planning, and deployment planning.
• Detailed scheduling and material requirements planning (MRP).
• Understanding the impact of planning data on upstream and downstream processes.

Systems, Data & Quality

• Support Demand Planning systems and their integrations with ERP platforms.
• Perform technical data validation and coordinate issue resolution.
• Analyze incidents and data inconsistencies, identifying root causes.
• Support operational activities such as data validation, checks, and recovery.

Continuous Improvement

• Identify improvement opportunities in tools, processes, and ways of working.
• Run pilots/POCs, standardize documentation, and support regional/global deployments.
• Contribute to documentation and process standardization.
• Understand and formalize value realization (adoption, cycle time, forecast accuracy, plan adherence, inventory/svc trade‑offs).
• Support regional or global deployments, pilots, and enhancements.