Forecasting Sales Planning Analyst I

Company: LTK (formerly rewardStyle & LIKEtoKNOW.it)
Location: Dallas
Posted on: June 25, 2022

Job Description:

Title: Forecasting Sales Planning Analyst I

Location: Dallas, Texas or Remote

Reports to: Head of Operations, US Brand Platform

Job Purpose

At LTK, we pride ourselves on leveraging data to guide decisions and analyze results. As a member of the Brand Platform team, you will play a key role in ensuring that the Brand Platform business unit has the strategic insight and data they need to reach their goals and measure performance along the way. You will work with business leaders throughout sales and operations across all levels of the organization to identify strategic priorities, revenue opportunities, and develop scalable data processes for consumption along the way.

Key Responsibilities And Accountabilities

• Work closely with Sales, Operations, and Product leadership to develop strategic department planning based on quantitative and qualitative data analysis and reporting of patterns, insights, and trends
• Collect, aggregate, and analyze data from multiple internal and external sources to drive insights into business and or brand performance. Troubleshoot data inconsistencies
• Produce actionable reports and build visualizations that show key performance indicators, identify areas of improvement into current operations, and display root cause analysis of problems
• Create compelling PowerPoint & Keynote presentations (mainly internally), which tell the analytics story, demonstrating their value by providing actionable insights with recommendations.
• Use analytics and metrics to improve processes and provide data-driven forecasts of potential costs, risks, and profits of new business initiatives, brand partners, and to improve current business operations.
• Communicate and present findings and insight to stakeholders and provide business strategy recommendations for optimizing business performance.
• Help improve team data acumen through quarterly and as needed sales and operations trainings on dashboards and data analysis
• Support creation and deployment of department OKRs and track statistics necessary to measure performance
• Leverage enterprise BI tools to organize insight-driving visualizations in widgets and dashboards
  
  Requirements
  
  • Bachelor's degree -- business, financial or technical degree preferred
  • 2+ years experience supporting operations and/or sales teams as an analyst or in a quantitative role extracting and visualizing data in meaningful ways.
    • Forecasting client potential spend.
    • At least 1 years experience using SQL; Scala and/or Python experience a plus
    • At least 1 year experience using a BI tools (Power BI, Tableau, etc.); Sisense experience preferred
    • Extensive (advanced) experience utilizing Microsoft excel or other data visualization tools
    • Inquisitive and curious, eager to learn
    • Ability to interact professionally with a diverse group, executives, managers, and subject matter experts
    • Self-starter who takes pride in their work
    • Passionate about data informed business decisions and communicating to a variety of audiences
    • Deep understanding of quantitative and qualitative research methods
    • Knowledge of data management & modeling concepts, techniques, and strategies
    • Ability to parse data for actionable insights that can drive decisions
    • Ability to communicate your insights verbally, visually, and in writing
    • Passion for reproducible work and tools to build efficiency
    • Empathy and intellectual humility to build strong rapport and thought-partnerships with colleagues
    • A deep desire to prove yourself right or wrong and make smart decisions without ego
    • Self-motivated to continually evaluate and refine your technical toolkit
    • Collaborate daily with cross-functional colleagues to drive strategies and tactics for growth
      
      What's in it for you?
      
      • Interesting problems to solve
      • Competitive comp and benefits including medical, dental, and vision
      • Paid Maternity and Paternity Leave
      • Wellness benefits including workout from home with our live Virtual Fitness Classes!
      • 401k retirement plan with LTK matching contribution
      • Flexible work schedule plus Summer Fridays (Workday ends at 3pm)
      • Virtual Company Happy Hours and Virtual Team Events!
      • Disrupting the retail industry!
        
        What you have to look forward to when you work or visit for team huddles at a LTK Office:
        
        • Fully stocked bars and kitchen (free snacks all day!)
        • Catered meals weekly
        • Monthly Chair massages
        • Laidback office environment
        • Monthly themed Happy Hours!
        • Free access to state of the art gym while working in or visiting our Dallas HQ
        • Free Covered Parking on-site while working in or visiting our Dallas HQ
          
          About Us
          
          LTK is the largest global influencer marketing platform. Founded in 2011 by Amber Venz Box and Baxter Box, the company's mission is to empower the world's premium lifestyle creators to be as economically successful as possible.
          
          Now in its 10th year, LTK has grown to become a three-sided marketplace, serving creators, brands and shoppers. In November 2021, LTK announced a $300 million investment by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 that values the company at $2 billion.
          
          LTK is the most trusted and effective business-enablement platform for creators, powering their universal LTK Creator Shops---. More than 5,000 retailers employ the LTK Brand Platform for performance-driven campaigns, paid collaborations and content licensing, and invested more than $1 billion in influencer marketing through the LTK platform by summer 2021.
          
          Shoppers purchase more than $3 billion in products annually on the LTK platform and app. LTK is headquartered in Dallas, TX with teams in the UK, Brazil, France, Germany, Australia, China and South Korea and clients in more than 100 countries.
          
          For US-Based Roles: We are not offering new sponsorships opportunities at this time for persons requiring employment visas, such as an H-1B; authorization to work in the U.S. is a precondition of employment.
          
          Any unsolicited resumes/candidate profiles submitted through our website or to personal email accounts of employees of LTK are considered the property of LTK and are not subject to payment of agency fees.
          
          LTK is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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