Business Analyst III

Russell Tobin is seeking a Business Analyst specializing in hardware products. The role involves building and maintaining sales forecasts, collaborating with various teams, and presenting insights to business leaders, focusing 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 Meta 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 Meta 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
• Physical consumer goods experience
• Forecasting systems experience