The Opportunity: 

This position will report to the Sr Sales Manager (and dotted into the Sales Forecasting Manager), and will be based in our UK office. You will analyse business performance for your market across a diverse range of products, identifying trends and opportunities, and lead co-planning meetings with Sales and Marketing colleagues. You will also attend S&OP cycle meetings, where you will be expected to articulate root-cause understanding of sales performance and the forward forecast. 

What we offer:

• Competitive base salary
• Annual bonus scheme
• Pension plan co-funding (up to 10.5% company contribution)
• Private Healthcare
• Dental scheme
• 25 holidays
• A variety of employee perks and discounts

What Your Impact Will Be: 

• Through cross-functional collaboration, collate, challenge, calibrate, and create the most-likely and best-possible POS and sales forecast at toy x market level by month by customer for a total market, employing combination of top-down and bottom-up methods for top and tail items 
• Organise and lead the co-planning sessions with key stakeholders to continuously align assumptions, enrich forecast, constructively challenge figures 
• Gather internal and external insights that affect the forecast; calculate and determine bias to challenge and improve our accuracy 
• Ensure Sales Forecast is reviewed and aligned with sales management in line with our planning cycles 
• Maintain and update the right information and parameters in the forecasting tool (Anaplan) 
• Ensure forecast is accurately measured, and is accessible to all key stakeholders via Tableau