Job Details

Job Title: Business Analyst II
Location: Burlingame, CA (Onsite preferred but open to remote PST)
Duration: 12 months


Summary:
Client's Reality 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 Client 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 Client Reality Labs

• 2+ 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