Senior Supply Chain Planning Analyst

Most weeks tend to involve advanced modeling, scenario analysis, planner support, and the steady cadence of senior analytical work — building or refining advanced demand and supply models, running what-if scenarios for major commercial decisions, supporting senior planners on complex forecasts, prepping the analytical components of S&OP. You're often the analytical depth behind senior planner decisions. Model accuracy, scenario fidelity, and analytical reuse are the visible measures.

The friction surfaces in the disagreement between statistical signal and business narrative — promotional cannibalization, channel shifts, and macro effects hide in the data, and the senior analyst earns standing by surfacing them carefully. Variance across employers is wide: at major CPG firms the analytical infrastructure is mature; at smaller firms the senior analyst builds the analytical foundation in tools the team can sustain.

Folks who do well here often bring statistical depth, planning fluency, and intellectual honesty about model limits. APICS CPIM, IBF CPF, and senior analytics credentials anchor advancement. The trade-off is operating downstream of planner decisions — your analyses inform choices the planners execute and own.