What are the responsibilities and job description for the Demand Planner position at OP?
Step into a role where data meets innovation. We re looking for a Business Analyst to drive demand forecasting for our cutting-edge VR headset and wearables product lines. You'll play a key role in shaping business decisions by building and managing sell-through and sell-in forecasts, partnering with sales and channel operations teams, and delivering meaningful performance insights to leadership. If you excel at turning data into action and enjoy working in a fast-paced consumer hardware environment, this opportunity is for you.
Responsibilities
At OP, we help you harness the power of technology for maximum impact. A technology consulting and solutions company, we offer advisory and managed services, innovative platforms, and staffing solutions across a wide range of fields including AI, cyber security, enterprise architecture, and beyond. For nearly two decades, we ve been challenging the status quo of the consulting industry, serving up fresh, ingenious thinking through a radically lean structure. Together, this strategy delivers unprecedented performance at an unparalleled pace for faster results that propel your business forward.
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 bottom-up Sell-Through and Sell-In forecasts utilizing multiple quantitative and qualitative datasets and present cycle over cycle results to business leaders across the company.
- 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 the impact of strategic activities to forecast outcomes to the broader organization and various stakeholders.
- Drive implementation of tools and techniques for continuous forecast accuracy improvement by analyzing large datasets, identifying trends, dependencies, and 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 the company.
- Minimum 4 years of experience in hardware products (including accessories) demand forecasting.
- More than 6 years of experience in business strategy, finance, analytics, or sales planning.
- Excel, PowerPoint, and Google Suite products.
- Ability to dive in and do the work.
- 401(k).
- Dental Insurance.
- Health insurance.
- Vision insurance.
- We are an equal-opportunity employer and value diversity, equality, inclusion, and respect for people.
- The salary will be determined based on several factors, including, but not limited to, location, relevant education, qualifications, experience, technical skills, and business needs.
- Participate in OP monthly team meetings and participate in team-building efforts.
- Contribute to OP technical discussions, peer reviews, etc.
- Contribute content and collaborate via the OP-Wiki/Knowledge Base.
- Provide status reports to OP Account Management as requested.
At OP, we help you harness the power of technology for maximum impact. A technology consulting and solutions company, we offer advisory and managed services, innovative platforms, and staffing solutions across a wide range of fields including AI, cyber security, enterprise architecture, and beyond. For nearly two decades, we ve been challenging the status quo of the consulting industry, serving up fresh, ingenious thinking through a radically lean structure. Together, this strategy delivers unprecedented performance at an unparalleled pace for faster results that propel your business forward.
Salary : $50 - $55