Forecast and Planning Analyst

travelhrportal; India; On-site; INR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and welfare insurance

Travel perks

Learning and development programs

Job summary

Amex GBT is seeking a Forecasting Analyst to organize, normalize, and analyze historical data to forecast future workloads across calls, email, chat, and offline contacts. You’ll work within a global Forecasting and Planning team to drive service levels and profitability.

The role emphasizes long-range and short-term forecasting (4–18 months and 4 weeks), staff plan reviews, and collaboration with global business partners using Anaplan and Excel.

Qualifications

• Degree in Statistics, Industrial Engineering, Engineering or related technical field.
• Minimum 2 years forecasting/planning experience in a call center or similar environment.
• Strong analytical and mathematical skills with ability to apply techniques to real-world issues.
• Excellent written and verbal communication; able to build collaborative relationships.

Responsibilities

• Create short and long-term forecasts using econometric data and adjust for seasonality.
• Maintain call center forecasting models and staffing plans; analyze impact of improvements.
• Lead staff plan reviews with operations and coordinate discussions for the portfolio.
• Forecast daily/weekly/period-level contact volumes and AHT with advanced models.
• Present forecast results clearly to business partners and support productivity improvements.

Skills

Forecasting

Time series

Data analysis

Communication

Staff planning

Project management

Strategic thinking

Education

Bachelor's in Statistics / Industrial Engineering / Engineering

Four-year college degree

Tools

Anaplan

Excel

IEX (Verant 360)

Aspect

Job description

Amex GBT is a place where colleagues find inspiration in travel as a force for good and - through their work - can make an impact on our industry. We're here to help our colleagues achieve success and offer an inclusive and collaborative culture where your voice is valued.

The Forecasting Analyst is responsible for organizing, normalizing, and analysing historical data along with available business intelligence to produce a forecast of future monthly and daily workloads. Specifically, responsible for long-range, intermediate, and near-term forecasts of work units and handle time for various work types, including calls, email, chat, and offline contacts across numerous contact types and lines of business.

The Forecasting and Planning team leads a multi-market, strategic planning process that drives outstanding customer service, improved profitability, and enables delivery capabilities that differentiate AEGBT in the industry. We are looking for experienced Call Centre Forecasters and/or Planners to be a part of our global infrastructure utilizing a state-of-the-art enterprise forecasting system supporting our end users. This role will be responsible for the long term and short-term forecasting, planning, and review coordination across diverse grouping of accounts. The successful candidate will combine strong forecasting discipline with sound communication skills, while working with our global business partners.

What You'll Do

• Creates and maintains strong linkages with internal business partners. Produces Short Term and long-Term forecasts using econometric data, adjusting for seasonality and variance.
• Maintains and modifies call center forecasting models. Recommends operational processes that maximize occupancy and statistically analyses the impact of process improvement efforts on the business.
• Leads the staff plan review process with operations making recommendations on staffing utilization. Organise and lead discussions related to the assigned portfolio of business.
• Using historical data along with available business intelligence, forecast daily, weekly, and period level contact volume and AHT . Generate accurate long-range (4-18 months) projections.
• Generate Daily short-range (4 weeks) projections. Present forecast results in a clear, concise, and useful way.
• Assist business partners with the analysis and interpretations of WFM forecasting data and make recommendations for changes to optimize productivity. Partner with Customer Service support teams to support process improvement initiatives.
• Ensures cohesion between period and weekly level forecast and the short range daily and interval level forecasts. Provide weekly and period level forecast and staff requirements to outsource partners. Maintain advanced Forecast models using Anaplan and Excel.

What We're Looking For

• Strong strategic thinking and the ability to work proactively and independently two or more years of forecasting and/or planning experience. Understanding of statistical time series modelling techniques and ability to apply theoretical techniques to real world issues.
• Strong oral and written communication skills and be able to build and maintain effective collaborative relationships. Understands the intricacies of forecasting and knows how to build a robust plan that accommodates for variation.
• Degree in Statistics, Industrial Engineering, Engineering, or related technical fields are preferred. Database management skills.
• Four-year college degree or equivalent.
• Minimum of 2 years call center experience and/or minimum 18 months resource planning experience. Strong strategic thinking and the ability to work proactively and lead teams.
• Bachelor's degree or 6 years related workload management experience. Degree in Statistics, Economics, or related field is preferred. Good working knowledge of IEX (Verant 360), or Aspect, ability to organize set priorities and multi-task within timescales, effective management of time, project management experience and good understanding of processes and structure.

Location

India

The #TeamGBT Experience

Work and life: Find your happy medium at Amex GBT.

Flexible benefits are tailored to each country and start the day you do.

• These include health and welfare insurance plans, retirement programs, parental leave, adoption assistance, and wellbeing resources to support you and your immediate family.
• Travel perks: get a choice of deals each week from major travel providers on everything from flights to hotels to cruises and car rentals.
• Develop the skills you want when the time is right for you, with access to over 20,000 courses on our learning platform, leadership courses, and new job openings available to internal candidates first.

We strive to champion Inclusion in every aspect of our business at Amex GBT. You can connect with colleagues through our global INclusion Groups, centered around common identities or initiatives, to discuss challenges, obstacles, achievements, and drive company awareness and ac