Senior IT Product Owner APO Demand Planning and IBP

Job Description

Role-Senior IT Product Owner – APO Demand Planning and IBP
Location-Chicago,IL

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

Experience and Education

• High school diploma or GED, plus extensive directly related professional experience.
• Demonstrated experience delivering and supporting enterprise demand planning and forecasting technology, including at least one full implementation or major upgrade taken from design through go-live and hypercare.
• Prior ownership of a demand planning or forecasting capability, product line, or business process.

Demand Planning Platforms and Technology

• Hands-on experience with enterprise demand planning platforms. SAS Viya is strongly preferred, as it is our core platform; substantive experience with comparable solutions such as SAS Visual Forecasting, SAS Intelligent Planning, SAP IBP, Kinaxis, o9 Solutions, Blue Yonder (JDA), Logility, or OMP will also be considered.
• Working knowledge of the SAS ecosystem — for example SAS Viya administration concepts, forecasting pipelines and model repositories, SAS Visual Analytics reporting, and the SAS 9 to Viya modernization path.
• Practical understanding of forecasting methods and how they are configured in a planning system, including time series models, causal and machine learning approaches, demand sensing, hierarchical forecasting and reconciliation, and model selection and champion/challenger evaluation.
• Fluency with forecast performance measurement and its drivers, including MAPE, WMAPE, bias, and forecast value add, and the ability to tie platform capabilities to measurable accuracy improvement.
• Solid grounding in the data that feeds demand planning: master data and product, customer, and location hierarchies; shipment, order, and consumption history; syndicated and point-of-sale data; and promotional, pricing, and new product introduction inputs.
• Experience with enterprise integration between planning platforms and ERP, data warehouse, and cloud data environments, including batch and API-based interfaces and job scheduling..

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Supply Chain Management, Analytics, Statistics, Engineering, or a related field.
• SAS Certified Specialist: Forecasting and Optimization Using SAS Viya (exam A00-407), or an equivalent SAS Viya credential.
• Professional forecasting or supply chain certification, such as IBF Certified Professional Forecaster (CPF/ACPF) or ASCM/APICS CPIM or CSCP.
• Certified Scrum Product Owner, SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager, or PMP certification.
• Experience in consumer packaged goods, food and beverage, or another global manufacturing environment with complex multi-tier distribution.
• Experience with cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, or GCP), containerized deployments, and modern data platforms supporting analytics workloads.
• Working knowledge of demand planning adjacent capabilities such as supply planning, inventory optimization, trade promotion management, and scenario and what-if modeling.
• Foundational knowledge of data classification and data privacy, including regulatory bodies and compliance requirements across global markets.