US Retail Account Planning

Description -

Responsibilities

This position will project lead and manage standardizing the retail account planning process for HP North American (US & Canada). You will be a member of the NA Channel Development team. This team is responsible for launching new products, defining retail channel strategy, and managing all forecasts, inventory, and delivering the revenue and profit goals for the company. This role will be integral to improving current tools and processes related to forecast and inventory management, but you will have exposure to the broader retail business as well.

Specific elements of this internship include:

• Creating internal documents that will be used to facilitate future account planning job rotations.

• Developing standardized planning workbooks (Excel-based) that will used weekly for all weekly retail account planning sessions including elements of forecast planning, sales out planning, and inventory management.

• Developing tools and processes to enable seamless integration of planning workbooks into SAP’s Integrated Business Planning ("IBP") module.

• Partnering with the entire NA Business Development team to develop mechanisms and strategies for identifying, minimizing, and rectifying discrepancies in business intelligence tools used by the team.

Education and Experience Required

• Business, marketing, or supply-chain management with emphasis in data analysis and business intelligence tool usage
• Expertise in Microsoft Excel. Familiarity cloud-based supply chain management systems (like SAP IBP) is a plus.
• High School Degree 3rd Year of University completed--typically a non- technical degree specialization.

Knowledge and Skills

• Desire to define and document business-critical processes
• Ability to analyze business processes and suggest improvements.
• Desire to work in a fast-paced, dynamic business environment.
• Self-starter with the desire to work independently with guidance and work closely with internal teams. Will you be persistent when you don’t have what you need?

Job -

Administration

Schedule -

Full time

Shift -

Shift 1, 0% premium (United States of America)

Travel -

No

Relocation -

EEO Tagline - 

HP Inc. is EEO F/M/Protected Veteran/ Individual with Disabilities.