Job Title: Business Analyst III
Location: Remote
Duration: 12 Months
Description:
Summary: Client's Reality Labs team is looking for a Business Analyst to own demand forecasting for our VR headset and wearables product lines. You'll build and maintain sell-through and sell-in forecasts, partner with sales and channel operations teams, and present performance insights to business leaders. This is a hands-on, execution-focused role ideal for someone who thrives on data-driven planning in consumer hardware.
Responsibilities:
- Partner with sales account managers, category managers, data analysts and business unit marketing teams to drive accurate demand planning and identify growth initiatives based on robust forecast models
- Build bottoms up Sell-Through and Sell-In forecasts utilizing multiple quantitative and qualitative datasets and present cycle over cycle results to business leaders across Client
- Forecast and track weekly, monthly, quarterly and yearly sales performance of hero and accessories hardware products in AR/VR
- Own the actuals vs forecast and goal performance analysis, drive identification of root causes and plan mitigation measures for gaps in performance
- Share forecast assumptions and impact of strategic activities to forecast outcomes to broader organization and various stakeholders
- Drive implementation of tools and techniques for continuous forecast accuracy improvement by analyzing large datasets, identifying trends, dependencies, correlations, and creating future outlooks based on that
- Partner with Channel Operation teams to impact production and launch decisions
- Present outcomes at reviews with business leaders across Client
Requirements:
- 4 years of experience of hardware products (including accessories) demand forecasting
- 6 years of experience in business strategy, finance, analytics or sales planning experience
- Excel, Powerpoint, and Google Suite products experience
- Ability to dive in and do the work