Pay rate range: $78/hr. to $80/hr. on w2.
Work Location: Plano, TX
Work Schedule: Hybrid 4 days per week in the office (Monday – Thursday)
Education :
Bachelor's degree in Business/Economics or in math/analytics/engineering is required and 3-5 years of relevant experience minimal, (+6 years experience-preferred).
Top Three Skills:
1) Forecast modeling
2) Effective Communicator
3) Finance
Position Summary
The direct-to-consumer ecommerce team is looking for a Manager of Business Planning (contractor) to drive both short-term and long-term business planning for the Mobile business. This candidate will be responsible for managing weekly/monthly/quarterly sales forecasts with high accuracy using analytics and building models based on Ecommerce sales drivers, promotional analysis and using category-specific business knowledge.
The individual is expected to be hands-on in preparing Sales forecasting, product mix, risk/opportunity analysis and to evaluate Ecommerce sales drivers (Traffic, conversion rate), the impact of promotions on different sales platforms (e.g. Employee purchase plan), promotional analytics (attribution, elasticity, and ROI/financial analysis) and creating what-if scenarios to achieve business goals.
The role also includes creating insights/presentations for executive reviews and will own business planning for the assigned category.
A successful candidate is highly analytical with critical thinking skills and business savvy, be adaptive, and able to work cross-functionally to influence sales and operations teams working towards a common goal in a highly matrixed, fast-paced organization.
Essentials/Duties and Responsibilities
• Hands-on building Sales forecasting using several variables (Traffic, Seasonality, multiple promos, etc.)
• Develop weekly/monthly/quarterly sales forecasts for both quantity and revenue
• Promotional analysis for attribution, elasticity, and ROI/financial analysis
• Build a playbook to use Promotional lift and to recommend promos to achieve goals
• Develop monthly/quarterly targets and distribute the targets to various categories/channels and traffic drivers for Ecommerce
• Support supply chain team/process on forecast and demand/supply alignment
• Deep understanding of Mobile promotions, sales and channel actions
• Improve long term forecasting w/suitable analytical methodologies
• Use advanced analytics methodologies such as Client/AI forecasting methodologies for sales forecasting
• Create presentations with compelling data driven story to share with leadership, cross-functional teams to provide insights and recommendations
• Work with Category Management, Finance and Operations team to define and work on gap closures
Background/Experience
• 6+ years of experience in Ecommerce business planning, category management and/or data and analytics-intensive role with an emphasis on Quantitative analytics
• Bachelor's degree in Business/Economics or in math/analytics/engineering is required
• MBA would be a plus
• Hands-on with advanced excel with attention to detail to integrate complex data to build forecasting and to perform analysis
• Knowledge of Client/AI models for forecasting, pricing and promotional analytics for business analytics will be a plus
• Experience with Financial analysis to build business cases and to create P&L analysis
• Creative thinker with excellent business acumen, analytical skills and experience with statistical modeling
• High level of confidence, integrity, enthusiasm, executive presence that fits a fast-paced, energetic and proactive organization
• Adaptability, using advanced preparation to quickly pivot throughout the week
• Exceptional presentation skills with good Microsoft PowerPoint capabilities
• Experience of working with Telecom, Technology, Consumer Electronics and/or Retail industry is strongly preferred
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