Demand Planner 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.
• Forecast and track weekly, monthly, quarterly and yearly sales performance of AR products.
• 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 supply chain teams to impact production and launch decisions.
• Partner with marketing and finance teams to impact and evaluate pricing and promotion strategy across the entire portfolio of products and assess new markets for business growth.
• Present outcomes at reviews with business leaders across Facebook.

Minimum Qualifications:

• B.S. or M.S. in business-related or quantitative field (Economics, Finance, Math, Engineering, or similar discipline)
• 2 years of experience of hardware products (including accessories) demand forecasting
• 7 years of experience in business strategy, finance, analytics or sales planning experience with Excel and Powerpoint
• Experience with forecasting tools (e.g. Anaplan, Algo, e2open, Logility etc.)
• Experience in problem solving individually and in a group setting and knowledge of financial drivers of the business
• Experience with statistical forecasting methods and forecast accuracy metrics

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with advanced Excel
• Experience in shifting priorities, while maintaining organization and control
• Experience in strategic planning in tech company, investment banking or strategy consulting with a focus on technology
• Experience in SQL/Tableau/Power BI/visualization tools
• Experience in consumer electronics businesses
• Experience of communicating insights gained from data with clarity and impact

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