Samsung Senior Manager Business Planning 

United States, Arizona, Prescott 

935954893

Responsibilities

• Developing, negotiating, coordinating, and communicating business plans between Samsung Electronics America (SEA) counterparts. You will assist the leads for retail, carrier, and B2B channels in planning yearly sales targets

• Responsible for monthly sales forecast by product and account and reporting

• Requires to be able to present business insights in front of senior leadership in SEA

• Thorough data analytics, identifying success of promotions and sales programs, and suggesting recalibration to improve outcomes

• Responsible for creating and executing quarterly strategies and business plans specific for the account or for specific Samsung products. Sales forecasting, demand planning, and SCM fluency required

• Analyzing weekly sell in & sell out to identify sales target status, ensuring fulfilment of delivery to achieve sales plans, product development, and new launches

• Providing sales with daily / weekly sell out forecast updates of product. Reviewing and identifying variances in weekly sell out deliveries, as compared to outstanding inventories and WOS (week of supplies)

• Consolidating and publishing the weekly financial outlook, translating PSI and unit sales into financial figures to analyze the state of the business

• Functioning as the focal point to improve communications between headquarters and corresponding SEA team members. May communicate daily between headquarters and SEA organization on production allocation, delivery requirements, and inventory management

• Preparing profit & loss, sales deduction, marketing expenditure, and other related financial reports to identify performance and achievement of NC business goals

• Initiating, developing, coordinating, and implementing strategic product launch plans

• Managing special pricing conditions to support sales and promotion objectives

• Solving moderately complex technical problems and responds to non-standard requests from internal and external customers

• Making decisions within guidelines and policies

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree with 8+ years of directly related experience is required

• Prior experience in the wireless telecommunications or consumer electronics industry in a position managing one or more of supply chain, operations, finance, or business planning

• Experience in financial profit & loss statement and basic knowledge of accounting

• Experience developing presentations

• Experience with or knowledge of SAP

• Strong Excel / Data Analytics skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with data modeling or analysis tools e.g., Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, SPSS or similar

• Experience developing KPI and executive dashboards