Senior Demand Planner
Cisco Meraki is searching for an experienced Demand Planner to join our Operations team based in San Francisco! As the fastest growing cloud networking team in the world, our products and technology are changing the face of enterprise networking and making cloud-managed IT a reality. At Meraki, we're busy simplifying powerful technology to free passionate people to focus on their mission.
YOU:
We are a team constantly striving to build and improve our demand planning process. 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 YOU WILL DO:
- Evaluate historical trends 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.
- Actively monitors forecast status throughout quarter and takes prompt corrective action.
- Proactively identify issues in demand/supply/fulfillment to the forecast and lead meetings with the right cross functional partners to assign action items to resolve potential issues
- Identify process improvement opportunities in demand management and support team members in various departments as needed
QUALIFICATIONS AND SKILLS:
- Targeting 7+ years of professional applicable experience in ops, operations, finance, supply chain, at least 3 in demand planning
- 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, statistical analysis is a plus
- 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
Are you wondering what it is like to work at Cisco Meraki? Picture a breathtaking office, healthy catered meals, fully stocked kitchens, onsite gym and paid time off to volunteer. Meraki Cisco has built an amazing equal opportunity focused office where employees thrive. With that said, we are confident you will love it here. Check out more of our benefits on our job page, at https://meraki.cisco.com/jobs, and we look forward to talking with you soon.
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