.Descripción y detalle de las actividades**Position Summary**:The Product Life Cycle Analyst partners closely with Demand Planning, Marketing, Operations, Customer Care, and Finance Teams to provide support on product discontinuation.
This position partners with cross-functional internal departments on lifecycle management, specifically end-of-life product activities that align with business objectives.They provide analysis regarding inventory, costs, and demand for products close to the end-of-life stage in the product life cycle.
They help aggregate feedback from Marketing, Operations, and Customer Service to aid in Leadership's decisions on SKU rationalization.
**Essential Functions**:- Track sales performance for older product lines and analyze surgeon trends using these products.- Conduct cost analysis for product lines that are close to the end-of-life product lifecycle stage.- Work with operations to understand purchasing costs and operational costs of maintaining products.- Work with Marketing to understand agreements with each product line that might be preventing end-of-life activities.- Help create business cases based on data collected cross-functionally.- Assist in creating an End-of-Life project plan/schedule.- Help create communication plans for Marketing, Sales, and Customer Service.Experiência y requisitos**Qualifications**- Min.
1-year experience specifically related to Data Analyst, Demand Planning, Sales Operations, and/or Marketing- Bachelor's degree in business, Management Information Systems, Economics, Finance, Computer Science, or a related field required.- Experience working cross-functionally among teams and business groups required.- Advanced knowledge of MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, and database extraction required.- Analytical mind with business acumen.- Experience with Power BI preferred.- Experience with Life Cycle Management/Product Management activities preferred- English level advanced level.
**Skills**:- ** Analytical Skills**: Strong analytical skills.
Identifies and understands relevant trends, opportunities, needs, and market direction.
Proven ability to analyze and interpret data, to provide guidance, data-driven decisions, and recommendations.- ** Technical Skills**:Demonstrates necessary eagerness to acquire necessary technical knowledge, skills and judgment to serve business needs and accomplish goals.
Assesses own strengths and weaknesses.
Pursues training and development opportunities.
Strives to continuously build knowledge and skills.- ** Business Acumen**: Understands business implications of decisions.
Develops a strong grasp of business concepts and related issues.
Shows understanding of issues relevant to the organization.
Keeps up to date with current practices and trends.
Develops and uses cross-functional knowledge.- **Financial Management**: Ability to understand financial processes and can aid in the preparation and justification of budgets