Job Description

As a Demand Planning leader and member of the Reality Labs Global Sales Operations team, you will be responsible for planning and owning the demand statement for our multi-product hardware portfolio across all channels of distribution around the world. This includes our Virtual Reality portfolio (Quest VR Headsets), Accessories, Future of Work products and other exciting future categories that we deliver to end user through the Third Party Retail, Carrier, Direct to Consumer and B2B Commercial Channels. This role will lead and continue to build out the region/channel demand planning function and team, implementing best-in-class industry processes and tools to ultimately increase the predictability and availability of our products for our customers across channels and around the world.

Director, Region/Channel Demand Planning Responsibilities:

• Build the organizational infrastructure to develop, manage, and continually improve demand planning systems that drive accuracy of product category and SKU based forecasts in existing and new markets.
• Apply operational excellence methods to streamline processes and tasks across multiple areas and internal teams, then implement best practices, as well as timely inform cross-functional teams of any system or workflow related issues.
• Help build the demand planning strategy and collaborate with Sales, Finance, Channel Strategy, Product Operations and Data Team leaders to develop medium-term and short-term demand plans for consumer Sell-thru and Sell-in to our global customer base.
• Design comprehensive and consistent strategies, tools, and processes related to demand planning and sales forecasting.
• Define and implement forecasting methodologies leveraging product, and customer segmentation strategies as Facebook grows into new/undefined ecosystems and product categories.
• Lead and develop a team of Demand Planners, Analysts, and Specialists establishing clear performance expectations and coaching to ensure their performance plans meet organizational objectives.
• Partner with Channel Leadership (3P Retail, DTC, Enterprise), Global Product Planning, Channel Marketing, Channel Strategy, and Finance to gather forecast inputs from across the business, including but not limited to business trends, promotional/marketing plans, product inventory, production capacities, distribution changes, to develop accurate demand plans.
• Represent Demand Planning as part of the CPFR and S&OP process, ensuring that Customers and Operations partners are aligned with supply requirements to support demand, helping to socialize and evangelize the demand plan during executive reviews and across the organization.

Minimum Qualifications:

• 8+ years experience working in demand planning and leading teams in a highly collaborative work environment.
• Proven communication and influence skills.
• Experience working with and implementing demand planning modeling techniques.
• Experience working in a data-driven decision making environment, leveraging industry standard KPIs to measure and improve performance.
• Experience in implementing and using industry leading demand planning tools.
• Bachelors’ degree.

Preferred Qualifications:

• MBA or similar.
• Consumer Electronics industry with experience planning for high volume, complex SKU portfolios and planning for new products and categories.

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