Senior Business Planning Analyst

• Own the end-to-end forecast governance and operating process, including forecast submissions, pipeline and opportunity reviews, risk and upside identification, data quality, consolidation, and management reporting.
• Lead and drive the sales forecast cadence, establishing a disciplined rhythm across Bi-weekly, monthly, and quarterly forecast cycles to ensure timely, accurate, and actionable business outlooks.
• Partner with sales leaders and country/business teams to challenge forecast assumptions, identify gaps and risks, drive corrective actions, and improve forecast accuracy and predictability.
• Drive continuous improvement and automation of forecasting and reporting processes to reduce manual effort, improve data quality, and increase management visibility and decision speed.
• Develop and maintain forecast best practices, documentation, training, and enablement to strengthen forecasting capabilities across the organization.
• Leads complex data and business analysis to develop business plans, and identifies recommendations and insights.
• Establishes the metrics required to measure business performance as the business evolves, and develops the process for identifying and addressing performance gaps
• Leads cross-functional teams across the entire span of business planning activities.
• Develops go-forward business plan recommendations based on potential risks and returns.
• Demonstrates a high level of business acumen and technical expertise in areas such as business planning, operational management, and financial analysis.
• Serve as the Subject Matter Expert (SME) for WW tools, such as CSP, TERA, GCW, ThoughtSpot, ANAPLAN, Single Sales Hierarchy, SST, and WW RAD.
• Provide leadership and guidance on the effective use of WW tools, ensuring consistent adoption, data integrity, process alignment, and adherence to WW standards and timelines.
• Act as the key liaison between regional/country stakeholders and WW teams for tool enhancements, process changes, issue resolution, and deployment of new capabilities.
• May provide mentoring and guidance to lower level employees.

• Four-year or Graduate Degree in Business Administration, Finance, Economics, or any other related discipline or commensurate work experience or demonstrated competence.
• Typically has 10-12 years of work experience, preferably in strategy, planning, operations, market research, or a related field.

• Analytics
• Copilot Studio
• Dashboard
• Data Analysis
• Data Visualization
• Excel
• Market Intelligence
• Power BI
• Power Apps
• Power Automate
• PowerPoint
• Python (Programming Language)
• R (Programming Language)
• SQL (Programming Language)
• Tableau (Business Intelligence Software)
• Thought Leadership

• Effective Communication
• Results Orientation
• Learning Agility
• Digital Fluency
• Customer Centricity

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