Sr IT Business Analyst - Supply Planning & S&OP

The Opportunity We are seeking a highly skilled and proactive Sr. IT Business Analyst to support the Planning Tower, enabling end‑to‑end planning capabilities across multiple business functions including Demand Planning, Supply Planning, S&OP, Portfolio Management, Franchise, Analytics, and Allocation. This role will act as the strategic liaison between business stakeholders and technical delivery teams, ensuring that planning solutions are aligned to business needs, scalable, and insights driven. What Your Impact Will Be Requirements Gathering & Analysis Partner with business functional leads across Demand Planning, Supply Planning, S&OP, Analytics, Franchise and Portfolio to gather, analyze, and prioritize business requirements. Facilitate workshops and interviews to understand pain points, future needs, and value‑driving improvements. Translate complex business needs into clear, structured functional and non‑functional requirements. Solution Design & Delivery Support Work closely with solution architects, product managers, and development teams to validate and refine technical designs. Define and maintain business process documentation, user stories, use cases, and workflows. Ensure business alignment on design decisions, data models, KPIs, and reporting logic across the planning landscape. Testing & Deployment Coordinate and support system testing, including SIT and UAT planning, test case development, and defect triage. Validate that planning applications meet user expectations and business goals before deployment. Provide go‑live and hyper‑care support, ensuring successful transition into operations. Stakeholder Management & Communication Serve as the single point of contact for Planning Tower‑related initiatives. Coordinate cross‑functional inputs across Franchise, Allocation, and Analytics teams to drive business process alignment and integrated planning solutions. Communicate progress, risks, and dependencies clearly to business and IT leadership. Continuous Improvement Identify opportunities to streamline planning processes and drive automation, analytics, or system optimization. Stay current on industry best practices and technology trends in integrated business planning (IBP), S&OP, and planning analytics. Contribute to strategic roadmap planning for the Planning Tower. Contribute to production support and documenting processes and facilitating enablement sessions to empower stakeholders with the necessary skills and knowledge to utilize IT solutions effectively. What We’re Looking For The pay range is indicative of projected hiring range, however base pay will be determined based on a candidate’s work location, skills and experience. Mattel offers competitive total pay programs, comprehensive benefits, and resources to help empower a culture where every employee can reach their full potential. Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Supply Chain, Business, Engineering, or related field. 5+ years of experience in supply chain planning or business analysis, including hands‑on support of planning tools or platforms (e.g., Anaplan, Blue Yonder, SAP IBP, Kinaxis, o9). Deep understanding of key supply chain planning domains: Demand Planning, Supply Planning, S&OP, Inventory, and Allocation. Strong experience in requirement elicitation, process mapping/modeling, user story creation, and functional specification writing. Strong skills in using MS Excel, MS Powerpoint, Cognos, Tableau, Power BI, and SQL a must. Experience with Agile or hybrid delivery methodologies. Strong analytical, problem‑solving, and stakeholder management skills. Excellent communication, leadership, and client‑facing skills. Strong analytical and problem‑solving abilities, with a proactive approach to addressing challenges. Ability to work effectively in a multicultural and highly dynamic environment and manage teams across different time zones. Must be multi‑tasker and able to prioritize and deliver assignments with the highest quality under pressure with short deadlines. Mattel is an Equal Opportunity Employer where we want you to bring your authentic self to work every day. We welcome all job seekers, and all applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, national origin, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, veteran and protected veteran status, disability status, and or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state or local law. Pursuant to the Los Angeles Fair Chance Ordinance and the California Fair Chance Act, qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment. #J-18808-Ljbffr