MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience in demand planning, forecasting within the Telco, consumer hardware industry.
• 6 years of experience in demand planning, forecasting within hardware, Telco, consumer electronics or fashion industry.
• Experience building long term confidence forecasts that incorporate baseline models, promo/event lifts, pricing elasticity, new product introductions, channel insights, and participant analysis.
• Experience in spreadsheet software, including Google Sheets or similar, with data manipulation, analysis, and reporting capabilities.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Experience in the telecommunications industry.
• Experience as a change agent, including experience in project management and business process re-engineering.
• Excellent problem-solving skills with the ability to drive decisions with data.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to build relationships and influence stakeholders.

• Lead the end-to-end monthly planning-cycle for the product category, develop and maintain consensus driven demand forecasts in close collaboration with sales, demand planning, finance and Go-to-Market.
• Own the long-term forecast based on data-driven insights and fact-based evidence. Identity strategies to optimize outcomes to hit regional KPIs.
• Lead category performance reviews on a weekly and monthly basis, analyze complex data sets using tools such as Google sheets, tableau to identify trends and develop actionable insights to influence decision-making.
• Lead the annual planning cycle for the category, analyse trends and contribute to the development of business targets aligned with company objectives.
• Improve business planning processes, focus on maximizing business, productivity, forecast accuracy, and enabling data-driven decision-making.
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