Zuru
Sales Operations Analyst
Los Angeles | United States
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 13 days ago
PythonSQLDatabricksAWSSalesForecastingExcelCustomer SupportDemand Planning
About the role
- At most companies these activities sit in separate functions across planning, analytics, finance, and supply chain.
- assortment planning, demand forecasting, inventory and PO management, in-season replenishment, and the full reporting stack from POS through margin and P&L.
- The breadth is what makes the role hard, and what makes the right person grow fast here.
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain the inventory flow plan, monitor PO release versus commit, track mod set and OOA POs, and flag discrepancies before they become recovery problems.
- Manage in-season replenishment, instock reporting with diagnosis and plan of action, and proactive inventory pushes with the retailer to keep DC and store inventory continuous.
- Support pre-season line review, slot plan build, toy fair decks, and innovation sessions with POS, competitive, and category analytics that defend item count, shelf share, and price points.
- Lead monthly customer P&L reviews. Own margin, markdown, and rollback economics, and support JBP analytics, scenario modelling, and forward-looking commitments.
- At ZURU, they sit on one team by design.
- ZURU Toys re-imagines play, ZURU Tech leads the next building revolution, and ZURU Edge creates modern CPG brands for today's consumers.
- Lead the weekly chase and cancel data prep and decision meeting.
Skills
- Databricks (lakehouse), AWS (cloud), Claude AI (everyday work), and our planning suite.
- Use AI to scale analysis, drafting, and code generation daily.
- uses Claude or similar tools daily.
Benefits
- Action approved decisions across factory, customer service, and finance, and track downstream impact for continuous learning.
Company info
- Own demand forecasting and inventory ladder management for assigned accounts. Integrate sales voice, retailer signals, and capacity reality into a defended monthly view, scrubbed across customers and items.
- Founded in 2003 by EY Entrepreneur of the Year brothers Nick and Mat Mowbray, ZURU has grown to over 5,000 team members across 30+ international locations.
This listing is sourced directly from Zuru's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.