Demand Planner
At Cisco Meraki, we know that technology can connect, empower, and drive us. By simplifying powerful technology, we can free passionate people to focus on their mission. As the fastest-growing cloud-managed team in the world, our product and technology architecture is changing the landscape of enterprise networking and making cloud-managed IT a reality.
You:
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 sudden change. You love jumping into data and evaluating trends and collaborating cross functionally with multiple teams such as the Supply, Hardware, Product Management, Sales and Finance teams, to resolve product sales forecast for future 12 months.
What will you do:
- Evaluate historical trends, statistical analysis, and inputs from cross-functional teams to create a monthly forecast for your product families.
- 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.
- Manages product transition planning & assumption gathering/vetting (Forecast Impacts - Road Map/Lifecycle Changes – Ramp Ups/Ramp Downs) for their product families.
- Drive sales conversations on large deal development from inception to potential allocation and rollout execution.
- Actively monitors forecast status throughout quarter and takes prompt corrective action.
Who you are:
- 3-5 years professional experience, applicable experience in support, business ops, operations, finance, supply chain
- BS or BA, preferably in a relevant field such as Business, Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Data Analytics, Finance
- Intermediate Excel capabilities e.g. Pivot tables, chart creation, and presentation of data
- Comfortable with data, analytical mindset, detail-focused analysis, and presentation skills
- Possess the ability to make timely and well-informed decisions based on data analysis
- Be able to work well within a team as well as having a strategic mindset and being hardworking as an individual
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