Planning Analyst

Under Armour is the chosen brand of this generation of athletes… and the athletes of tomorrow. We’re about performance – in training and on game day, in blistering heat and bitter cold. Whatever the conditions, whatever the sport, Under Armour delivers the advantage athletes have come to demand.

That demand has created an environment of growth. An environment where building a great team is vital. An environment where doing whatever it takes is the baseline and going above and beyond to protect the Brand is commonplace.

The world’s hungriest athletes live by a code, a pledge to themselves and everyone else: Protect This House… I Will. Our goal is to Build A Great Team!

Will YOU…Protect This House?!

Mission

You may ask what is 20/Twenty? It’s perfect eyesight, unobstructed vision, the clearest way to see something. Some people say, “Hindsight is 20/20.” We say foresight is 20/Twenty. Teaming with SAP, we are building a technology growth engine which will create new value with game changing insights, products and experience for athletes leveraging real-time single view of the customer

Purpose:
Under Armour is looking for a talented professional to join their team as an IT Analyst for SAP Planning. The right candidate will be responsible for assisting with development, implementation and modeling of merchandise, assortment, demand and supply chain planning systems. This person will become an expert in demand planning processes at UA and will enable world class planning through developing new solutions within the application. The role will be expected to provide analytical results and insights based on simulating, testing, and documenting scenarios to determine optimal demand plans that maximize service levels while accounting for both top and bottom line growth. This role will also assist in integrating demand planning processes and information with supply planning information to simulate strategies for growth potential and potential serviceability issues.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

include but are not limited to the following:
Work with internal divisions of merchandising, assortment planning, demand planning, supply planning, and sales operations teammates as well as consultants to design, develop, implement and support integrated planning solutions for Retail, wholesale and e-commerce

Provide feedback on master data, transaction data, system integration and data flow across the various SAP (and non-SAP) modules

Provide feedback on the process integration

Work on the process documentation and offer potential improvements based on analytical results

Report on simulations of the integrated planning scenarios and present approaches to systematically determine optimal solutions

Assist in building exception reporting and determine usability and distribution to teammates for full adoption of the solution

Post go-live, work on continuous improvement projects, support packs and system upgrades and support the solutions.

Work with cross-functional business users and impart training and feedback as needed.

Technical Attributes of Ideal Candidate:
include but are not limited to the following:
Experience with SAP implementations and supporting SAP solutions

3+ years of merchandise, assortment, and demand Planning experience (preferably providing support and/or superuser experience) using SAP, Logility, JDA, 7th Online, or other type of planning application

Experience supporting SAP HANA, SAP BW and reporting applications preferred.

Masters/Bachelor’s Degree in Supply Chain Management, Operation Research, Industrial Engineering, Statistics, Information Science

Expert understanding of planning concepts like statistical forecasting, proportion profiling, merchandising planning, assortment planning, new product forecasting techniques, aggregation/disaggregation as well as other MRP and supply chain concepts

Coding experience preferred

Ability to perform root cause identification and develop resolutions

Strong team player with good interpersonal and communication skills

Ability to independently drive issue resolution, develop business knowledge and relationships while operating in a rapidly changing business environment

At Under Armour, we are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and teammates without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions), national origin, age, physical and mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information (including characteristics and testing), military and veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by applicable law. Under Armour believes that diversity and inclusion among our teammates is critical to our success as a global company, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool.