Business Planning Manager

Business Planning Manager

Description -

Job Summary

Business Planning Manager will be responsible for driving the development/implementation of robust processes/systems to track/monitor the strategic business plans and initiatives within the organization. The role provides valuable analysis and advice to management across various domains and manages cross-functional teams to ensure smooth operations and effective business planning. The role formulates highly complex analytic models for reporting, defines KPIs and metrics to measure business performance.

Responsibilities
• Supports the CO organization with data-driven intelligence and demand planning, supporting HP’s forecasting and business-planning processes. The position integrates shipment history, forecasts, true orders, and market-demand data into structured datasets covering products, geographies, businesses, and time periods.

• Leads data-quality and product-intelligence activities, including reconciling disconnected information across supply, forecast, and product-hierarchy sources. Responsibilities include building cross-reference mappings, investigating data mismatches, and validating pivot tables, forecast links, totals, and reporting outputs as well as supporting ad hock analysis for management and planners.

• Translates complex analysis into practical business tools, including forecast workbooks, market-division analyses, charts, dashboards, and repeatable ETL processes. Success requires a combination of business analysis, supply-and-demand forecasting, data engineering, documentation, and communication skills, with the ability to make large, complex datasets reliable, traceable, and useful for planning decisions.

• Establishes/Tracks the metrics required to measure business performance, and develops the process for identifying and addressing performance gaps.
• Manages complex, time-sensitive market research projects and prepares synthesized intelligence reports with clear implications.
• Identifies cutting-edge analytical tools, models, and methods for making key business decisions.
• Demonstrates a high level of business acumen and technical expertise in areas such as business planning, operational management, and financial analysis.

Education & Experience Recommended
• Four-year or Graduate Degree in Business Administration, Finance, Economics, or any other related discipline or commensurate work experience or demonstrated competence.
• Typically has 7-10 years of work experience, preferably in strategy, planning, operations, market research, or a related field.

Preferred Certifications
• Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification

Knowledge & Skills
• Analytics
• Business Intelligence
• Business Strategies
• Competitive Intelligence
• Customer Insights
• Dashboard
• Data Analysis
• Data Visualization
• Economics
• Market Intelligence
• Market Research
• Marketing
• New Product Development
• Power BI
• SQL (Programming Language)
• Statistics
• Tableau (Business Intelligence Software)
• Thought Leadership

Cross-Org Skills
• Effective Communication
• Results Orientation
• Learning Agility
• Digital Fluency
• Customer Centricity

Impact & Scope
• Impacts function and leads and/or provides expertise to functional project teams and may participate in cross-functional initiatives.

Complexity
• Works on complex problems where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of multiple factors.

Disclaimer
• This job description describes the general nature and level of work performed in this role. It is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, skills, responsibilities, knowledge, etc. These may be subject to change and additional functions may be assigned as needed by management.

Job -

Business Planning

Schedule -

Full time

Shift -

No shift premium (Czechia)

Travel -

Not Specified

Relocation -

No

Equal Opportunity Employer (EEO) -

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