Position Details
Ecommerce Business Planning Apply
Ecommerce Business Planning
Plano, Texas (4 days per week onsite)
Phone and Video
Long Term
Job Description:
Experience Needed:
Minimum of 3-5 years experience
Forecasting expert and business acumen.
Weekly - forecasting, dive into data
Retail or eCommerce
Story teller on data and forecasting
Self driven and high curious
A lot of product forecasting duties on a daily basis
EXCEL high Priority exp, Tableau
Ecommerce Business Planning
Work Location: 6625 Excellence Way, Plano, TX, USA
Work Schedule: Hybrid 4 days per week in office (Monday Thursday)
**Bilingual English and Korean language preferred, not mandatory
**Education and Years of Experience: Bachelor's degree required and 3-5 years of relevant experience
Top Three Skills:
1) Forecast modeling
2) Effective Communicator
3) Retail and/or eCommerce experience
Position Summary
The Samsung direct-to-consumer ecommerce team is looking for a Manager of Business Planning (contractor) to drive both short term and long term business planning for Mobile business. This candidate will be responsible to manage weekly/monthly/quarterly sales forecasts with high accuracy using analytics and build models based on Ecommerce sales drivers, promotional analysis and using category specific business knowledge.
The individual is expected to be hands-on to prepare Sales forecasting, product mix, risk/opportunity analysis and to evaluate Ecommerce sales drivers (Traffic, conversion rate), impact of promotions on different sales platforms (e.g. Employee purchase plan), promotional analytics (attribution, elasticity and ROI/financial analysis) and creating what-if scenarios to achieve business goals. The role also includes creating insights/presentation for executive reviews and will own business planning for the assigned category. A successful candidate is highly analytical with critical thinking skills and business savvy, be adaptive and able to work cross functionally to influence sales and operations teams working towards a common goal in a highly matrixed, fast pacing organization. The position is located in Plano, TX.
Essentials/Duties and Responsibilities
Hands-on to build Sales forecasting using several variables (Traffic, Seasonality, multiple promos etc.)
Develop weekly/monthly/quarterly sales forecast for both quantity and revenue
Promotional analysis for attribution, elasticity and ROI/financial analysis
Build a play book to use Promotional lift and to recommend promos to achieve goals
Develop monthly/quarterly targets and distribute the targets to various categories/channels and traffic drivers for Ecommerce
Support supply chain team/process on forecast and demand/supply alignment
Deep understanding of Mobile promotions, sales and channel actions
Improve long term forecasting w/suitable analytical methodologies
Use advanced analytics methodologies such as ML/AI forecasting methodologies for sales forecasting
Create presentations with compelling data driven story to share with leadership, cross-functional teams to provide insights and recommendations
Work with Category Management, Finance and Operations team to define and work on gap closures
Background/Experience
Ecommerce business planning, category management and/or data and analytics-intensive role with an emphasis on Quantitative analytics
Bachelor's degree in Business/Economics or in math/analytics/engineering is required
MBA would be a plus
Hands-on with advanced excel with attention to detail to integrate complex data to build forecasting and to perform analysis
Knowledge of ML/AI models for forecasting, pricing and promotional analytics for business analytics will be a plus
Experience with Financial analysis to build business cases and to create P&L analysis
Creative thinker with excellent business acumen, analytical skills and experience with statistical modeling
High level of confidence, integrity, enthusiasm, executive presence that fits a fast-paced, energetic and proactive organization
Adaptability, using advanced preparation to quickly pivot throughout the week
Exceptional presentation skills with good Microsoft PowerPoint capabilities
Experience of working with Telecom, Technology, Consumer Electronics and/or Retail industry is strongly preferred.
Minimum of 3-5 years experience
Forecasting expert and business acumen.
Weekly - forecasting, dive into data
Retail or eCommerce
Story teller on data and forecasting
Self driven and high curious
A lot of product forecasting duties on a daily basis
EXCEL high Priority exp, Tableau
Ecommerce Business Planning
Work Location: 6625 Excellence Way, Plano, TX, USA
Work Schedule: Hybrid 4 days per week in office (Monday Thursday)
**Bilingual English and Korean language preferred, not mandatory
**Education and Years of Experience: Bachelor's degree required and 3-5 years of relevant experience
Top Three Skills:
1) Forecast modeling
2) Effective Communicator
3) Retail and/or eCommerce experience
Position Summary
The Samsung direct-to-consumer ecommerce team is looking for a Manager of Business Planning (contractor) to drive both short term and long term business planning for Mobile business. This candidate will be responsible to manage weekly/monthly/quarterly sales forecasts with high accuracy using analytics and build models based on Ecommerce sales drivers, promotional analysis and using category specific business knowledge.
The individual is expected to be hands-on to prepare Sales forecasting, product mix, risk/opportunity analysis and to evaluate Ecommerce sales drivers (Traffic, conversion rate), impact of promotions on different sales platforms (e.g. Employee purchase plan), promotional analytics (attribution, elasticity and ROI/financial analysis) and creating what-if scenarios to achieve business goals. The role also includes creating insights/presentation for executive reviews and will own business planning for the assigned category. A successful candidate is highly analytical with critical thinking skills and business savvy, be adaptive and able to work cross functionally to influence sales and operations teams working towards a common goal in a highly matrixed, fast pacing organization. The position is located in Plano, TX.
Essentials/Duties and Responsibilities
Hands-on to build Sales forecasting using several variables (Traffic, Seasonality, multiple promos etc.)
Develop weekly/monthly/quarterly sales forecast for both quantity and revenue
Promotional analysis for attribution, elasticity and ROI/financial analysis
Build a play book to use Promotional lift and to recommend promos to achieve goals
Develop monthly/quarterly targets and distribute the targets to various categories/channels and traffic drivers for Ecommerce
Support supply chain team/process on forecast and demand/supply alignment
Deep understanding of Mobile promotions, sales and channel actions
Improve long term forecasting w/suitable analytical methodologies
Use advanced analytics methodologies such as ML/AI forecasting methodologies for sales forecasting
Create presentations with compelling data driven story to share with leadership, cross-functional teams to provide insights and recommendations
Work with Category Management, Finance and Operations team to define and work on gap closures
Background/Experience
Ecommerce business planning, category management and/or data and analytics-intensive role with an emphasis on Quantitative analytics
Bachelor's degree in Business/Economics or in math/analytics/engineering is required
MBA would be a plus
Hands-on with advanced excel with attention to detail to integrate complex data to build forecasting and to perform analysis
Knowledge of ML/AI models for forecasting, pricing and promotional analytics for business analytics will be a plus
Experience with Financial analysis to build business cases and to create P&L analysis
Creative thinker with excellent business acumen, analytical skills and experience with statistical modeling
High level of confidence, integrity, enthusiasm, executive presence that fits a fast-paced, energetic and proactive organization
Adaptability, using advanced preparation to quickly pivot throughout the week
Exceptional presentation skills with good Microsoft PowerPoint capabilities
Experience of working with Telecom, Technology, Consumer Electronics and/or Retail industry is strongly preferred.
