Business Analyst III

Job Title: Business Analyst III
Contract Duration: 1 year
Pay Rate: $55–60 per hour
Work Arrangement: Hybrid, 3 days a week
Location: Burlingame

Job Description

Client is looking for a Business Analyst to own demand forecasting for our VR headset and wearables product lines. You'll build and maintain sell-through and sell-in forecasts, partner with sales and channel operations teams, and present performance insights to business leaders. This is a hands-on, execution-focused role ideal for someone who thrives on data-driven planning in consumer hardware.

Responsibilities

• Partner with sales account managers, category managers, data analysts, and business unit marketing teams to drive accurate demand planning and identify growth initiatives based on robust forecast models
• Build bottoms-up sell-through and sell-in forecasts utilizing multiple quantitative and qualitative datasets and present cycle-over-cycle results to business leaders across Meta Reality Labs
• Forecast and track weekly, monthly, quarterly, and yearly sales performance of hero and accessories hardware products in AR/VR
• Own the actuals vs. forecast and goal performance analysis, drive identification of root causes, and plan mitigation measures for gaps in performance
• Share forecast assumptions and impact of strategic activities to forecast outcomes with the broader organization and various stakeholders
• Drive implementation of tools and techniques for continuous forecast accuracy improvement by analyzing large datasets, identifying trends, dependencies, correlations, and creating future outlooks based on that
• Partner with Channel Operation teams to impact production and launch decisions
• Present outcomes at reviews with business leaders across Meta Reality Labs

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience of hardware products (including accessories) demand forecasting
• 6+ years of experience in business strategy, finance, analytics, or sales planning
• Excel, PowerPoint, and Google Suite products experience
• Ability to dive in and do the work

Must-Have Skills

• Forecasting/Demand Planning (analytical/modeling)
• Cross-functional collaboration and presentation experience
• Technical proficiency (Google Sheets, Excel, etc.)

Nice-to-Have Skills

• Physical consumer goods experience
• Forecasting systems experience (e.g., O9)