Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience in demand planning or sales forecasting.
- Experience with data analysis.
Preferred qualifications:
- Project management, business process re-engineering and change management experience.
- Experience in forecasting in retail environments.
- Experience forecasting in tools or building analyses and data visualizations.
- Ability to work in an ambiguous, fast-changing environment.
About The Job
The Business Strategy & Operations organization provides business critical insights using analytics, ensures cross functional alignment of goals and execution, and helps teams drive strategic partnerships and new initiatives forward. We stay focused on aligning the highest-level company priorities with effective day-to-day operations, and help evolve early stage ideas into future-growth initiatives.
The Google Pixel team focuses on designing and delivering the world's most helpful mobile experience. The team works on shaping the future of Pixel devices and services through some of the most advanced designs, techniques, products, and experiences in consumer electronics. This includes bringing together the best of Google’s artificial intelligence, software, and hardware to build global smartphones and create transformative experiences for users across the world.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate closely with the sales team to model and build weekly, quarterly and annual demand forecasts: incorporating promotional plans, manage pipeline and seasonality assumptions and maintaining forecast assumptions in the demand planning tool.
- Analyze sales performance vs the demand forecast, understanding the root causes for over or under performance, assess risks and contingencies and write clear and concise business performance commentary for country, regional or global sales calls.
- Work with leadership, partnerships teams and cross-functional stakeholders to inform annual business goals and implement them in the systems.
- Collaborate with Supply Planning to maximize sales and support our partners.
- Analyze, understand, interpret and conceptualize sales performance and changing market trends for presenting out actionable insights to internal management and global counterparts.
Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form .
