Business Analyst III- #26-14117

Business Analyst

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 Clients Reality Labs.
• 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 Clints Reality Labs.

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.