Senior Forecasting and Planning Analyst

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About the role

  • Senior Forecasting & Planning Analyst owning Enterprise demand forecasts and strategic planning. Branch creates affordable, adaptable office products for modern workspaces.

Responsibilities

  • Serve as the primary forecasting and planning owner for the Enterprise channel, partnering with Sales and Account Management to translate pipeline and account-level signals into demand forecasts
  • Own forecasting methodology and assumptions feeding the overall revenue forecast across DTC, Enterprise, Amazon, and Wholesale
  • Build and maintain BigQuery-based data pulls
  • Automate recurring reporting and forecasting workflows
  • Apply AI tools to accelerate analysis and reduce manual, spreadsheet-dependent processes
  • Represent planning in cross-functional forecast reviews with Sales, Finance, and Product
  • Translate business context into planning assumptions and vice versa
  • Partner with Product Development on demand forecasting for new product launches
  • Build forecast logic for products without historical sell-through
  • Own lifecycle management strategy, including discontinuation timing and overstock/understock risk
  • Identify and implement improvements to forecasting models, planning cadences, and tools
  • Contribute ad hoc analysis for assortment, channel investment, and inventory strategy decisions
  • Support goals for MAPE, in-stock rate, DIO, and average parcel zone

Requirements

  • 5–7 years of experience in demand planning, merchandising planning, or forecasting
  • Prior experience in a formal planner-type role ideally
  • Experience with B2B/non-DTC planning is a strong asset
  • Ability to operate strategically and upstream, building a point of view on forecast assumptions
  • Strong cross-functional communication skills and comfort presenting forecasts and recommendations to non-planning stakeholders
  • Advanced proficiency in Power BI, Tableau, or Looker
  • Comfortable writing and optimizing SQL / BigQuery queries
  • Track record of automating manual, repetitive planning processes
  • Hands-on experience applying AI tools such as Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot, or similar
  • Advanced Excel experience with complex modeling
  • Python or similar scripting experience is a strong asset
  • NPI forecasting or product lifecycle management experience is a bonus

Job title

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Senior

Salary

$85,000 - $95,000 per year

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Tech skills

BigQueryPythonSQLTableau

Location requirements

RemoteCanada

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