Analyst, Supply Demand Planning

Summary

Join Toast's Supply Chain Analytics team as an Analyst supporting the Supply Planning team. You will forecast hardware demand, generating weekly, monthly, and quarterly plans. Lead monthly Demand Forums, presenting updates to leadership. Participate in weekly supply planning reviews to develop contingency plans. Manage the Supply Demand Planning master assortment file and prepare data/reports for the S&OP meeting. This role requires a Bachelor's degree, 1-3 years of forecasting and purchasing experience in a high-growth environment, strong spreadsheet skills, excellent communication, and creative/critical thinking. The ideal candidate will have prior planning experience in consumer electronics and Netsuite experience.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree and 1-3 years of experience in forecasting and purchasing in a high growth environment
• Spreadsheet skills; extensive experience building planning and or operational models, analyzing large data sets, and collating data from multiple sources
• Excellent communication skills; experience presenting complex data to executive stakeholders; ability to distill complex analyses into structured outputs and present to all levels of management
• Ability to think creatively and critically, and thrive in a dynamic and often ambiguous work environment

Responsibilities

• Responsible for forecasting hardware demand, to include generating weekly, monthly and quarterly plans that meet Toast’s customer needs and financial plans, and working closely with stakeholders to integrate plans across the organization as needed
• Lead monthly Demand Forum and present demand updates to leadership and cross-functional stakeholders. Succinctly summarize and communicate risks, opportunities, and the baseline assumptions of the plans
• Participates in weekly supply planning reviews by region by supplier by SKU with Supply Planning Managers to develop and implement contingency plans as needed to mitigate impacts to Toast customers
• Helps manage Supply Demand Planning master assortment file and ensures updates are completed monthly
• Prepares data and reports for monthly S&OP meeting, as well as any additional ad hoc requests from cross-functional departments

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior planning experience in consumer electronics or other high-value consumer goods
• Netsuite experience
• Strong interest in propagating analytics and data-driven decision making at a fast growing company
• Some experience with querying relational databases and/or working with BI tools
• Experience with Javascript

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and benefits programs
• Cash compensation (overtime, bonus/commissions if eligible)
• Equity
• Benefits
• Hybrid work model