Business Analyst-Supply Chain

Job Title Demand Planning Analyst/Business Analyst 2 Duration 6 months Work Location San Jose CA
DESCRIPTION:
Demand Planning Analyst
We are a team constantly striving to accurately forecast our sales to help drive healthy inventory at our warehouses for our customers
To jump into this team, you are a curious, motivated and enthusiastic individual who thrives in a constantly growing environment
You are someone who is highly flexible and able to adapt to changes
You love being curious about data, evaluating market and seasonality trends, and product feature launches
You're highly collaborative and thrive from working cross functionally with multiple teams such as the Supply, Engineering, Product Management, Sales, and Finance.

What you will do:

• Evaluate historical trends and proactively gather inputs from cross-functional teams to create a monthly forecast for your assigned product families.
• Promptly drive supply chain purchase of materials in support of the plan based on your forecasting.
• Active Cross-Functional meeting attendance/participation for key insight gathering (Product Management, Finance, Supply Chain and Other).
• Ensures timely and accurate forecast submittal within each monthly process cycle and for any subsequent out-of-cycle maintenance adjustments.
• Leads product transition planning & assumption gathering/vetting (Forecast Impacts - Road Map/Lifecycle Changes Ramp Ups/Ramp Downs) for their product families.
• Actively monitors forecast status throughout quarter and takes prompt corrective action.
• Build analytical reports / BI dashboard to intuitively pull and present data.
• Take on continuous improvement project to optimize demand planning processes.
• Work closely with allocation and distribution planning and provide support when necessary.

Qualifications and skills:

• Targeting around 2-4 years of demand planning experience, applicable experience in business operations, manufacturing operations, finance, supply chain management
• BS or BA, preferably in a relevant field such as Business Analytics, Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Data Analytics, Finance
• Intermediate Excel capabilities e.g
  Pivot tables, chart creation, and presentation of data
• Ability to evaluate historical, comparable and market share data with an analytical approach, create detail-focused analysis, and have strong presentation skills to communicate data through storytelling.
• Possess the ability to make timely and well-informed decisions based on data analysis.
• Be able to work well within a team, have a strategic mindset, and be a hardworking individual.
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