Job Title: Business Analyst III
Contract Duration: 1 year
Pay Rate: $55–60 per hour
Work Arrangement: Hybrid, 3 days a week
Location: Burlingame
Job Description
Client 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 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 with the 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
- Excel, PowerPoint, and Google Suite products experience
- Ability to dive in and do the work
Must-Have Skills
- Forecasting/Demand Planning (analytical/modeling)
- Cross-functional collaboration and presentation experience
- Technical proficiency (Google Sheets, Excel, etc.)
Nice-to-Have Skills
- Physical consumer goods experience
- Forecasting systems experience (e.g., O9)
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