Demand Planning Manager

At Cisco Meraki, we know that technology can connect, empower, and drive us. By simplifying powerful technology, we can free passionate people to focus on their mission. As the fastest-growing cloud-managed team in the world, our product and technology architecture is changing the landscape of enterprise networking and making cloud-managed IT a reality.

YOU:

We are a team constantly striving to accurately forecast our sales to help drive healthy inventory at our warehouses for our customers. 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 changes. You love being curious about data, evaluating market and seasonality trends, and product feature launches. You're highly collaborative and thrive from working cross functionally with multiple teams such as the Supply, Engineering, Product Management, Sales, and Finance.

What you will do:

• Evaluate historical trends and proactively gather inputs from cross-functional teams to create a monthly forecast for your assigned product families.

• Promptly 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.

• Leads 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.

• Build analytical reports / BI dashboard to intuitively pull and present data.

• Take on continuous improvement project to optimize demand planning processes.

• Work closely with allocation and distribution planning and provide support when necessary.

 Qualifications and skills:

We strive to create a welcoming workplace that inspires the insatiably curious and the relentlessly focused to make customer IT and networks utterly simple. We are looking for an individual that lives the Meraki values daily: care deeply, be brave, simplify everything, and everybody in. Our ideal candidate is not bound by a checklist, which includes,

• 5+ years of demand planning experience, applicable experience in business operations, manufacturing operations, finance, supply chain management

• BS or BA, preferably in a relevant field such as Business Analytics, Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Data Analytics, Finance

• Intermediate Excel capabilities e.g. Pivot tables, chart creation, and presentation of data

• Ability to evaluate historical, comparable and market share data with an analytical approach, create detail-focused analysis, and have strong presentation skills to communicate data through storytelling.

• Possess the ability to make timely and well-informed decisions based on data analysis.

• Be able to work well within a team, have a strategic mindset, and be a hardworking individual.

Why Cisco Meraki?

We connect everything: people, processes, data, and things. We innovate everywhere, taking ambitious risks to craft the technologies that give us connected cities, connected cars, and handheld hospitals. And we do it in style with unusual personalities who aren't afraid to change the way the world works, lives, plays and learns. We are encouraging leaders, tech geeks, pop culture aficionados, and we even have a few purple haired rock stars. We celebrate the creativity and diversity that fuels our innovation. We are dreamers and we are doers. We Are Cisco Meraki.

At Cisco Meraki, we’re challenging the status quo with the power of diversity, inclusion, and collaboration. When we connect different perspectives, we can imagine new possibilities, inspire innovation, and release the full potential of our people. We’re building an employee experience that includes appreciation, belonging, growth, and purpose for everyone.

Cisco is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, genetic information, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis. Cisco will consider for employment, on a case by case basis, qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.