Sales Operations Analyst

We are seeking a highly organized and analytical **Sales Operations Analyst** to support our sales and manufacturing operations, enabling accurate forecasting, production alignment, sales performance tracking, and process optimization.
In a manufacturing setting, the Sales Operations Analyst plays a critical cross-functional role, bridging sales, production, supply chain, and finance to ensure customer demand is translated into actionable production and delivery plans.

**Key Responsibilities**
**1. Sales Data Analysis & Reporting**
- Monitor and analyze sales performance at multiple levels: customer, region, product line, and SKU.
- Track order intake vs. shipment vs. production output and flag variances for investigation.
- Build and maintain dashboards and reports for senior leadership using Excel, Power BI, or Tableau.
- Analyze revenue performance, margin contribution, and backlog levels across channels and customers.

**2. Demand Forecasting & Sales Planning**
- Consolidate sales forecasts from regional teams and validate against historical trends, seasonality, and customer commitments.
- Collaborate with supply chain, production planning, and logistics to ensure forecasts are operationally feasible.
- Identify risks to forecast accuracy and build models to improve predictability (e.g., regression, moving averages).

**3. Customer Order Management Support**
- Monitor order lifecycle to ensure on-time and in-full (OTIF) delivery and alert stakeholders to potential delays.
- Support large or strategic customer orders by coordinating between sales, planning, and manufacturing to confirm delivery commitments.
- Assist in customer performance reviews by providing order vs. forecast variance analysis and delivery metrics.

**4. Pricing, Quoting, and Profitability**
- Work with finance and product teams to develop cost-based pricing models considering BOM cost, and logistics.
- Support quote generation by analyzing volume discounts, custom configurations, and production feasibility.
- Evaluate margin and contribution for custom or non-standard product requests before approval.

**5. CRM & ERP Data Management**
- Ensure customer pricing, and product data accuracy within ERP (e.g., SAP, Oracle, NetSuite) and CRM systems (e.g., Salesforce).
- Track opportunity pipeline in CRM and ensure alignment with production forecast requirements.
- Support the sales team in accurate CRM usage for opportunity stages, close dates, and product selection.

**6. Sales Process & Operational Efficiency** Map and improve end-to-end sales processes: inquiry quote order production
- delivery.
- Identify operational bottlenecks and propose process or system enhancements to reduce lead times and improve responsiveness.
- Document standard operating procedures (SOPs) related to sales data, quoting, and forecasting.

**7. Cross-Functional Coordination**
- Work closely with:

- ** Production Planning** to align customer orders with available capacity.
- ** Finance** to support revenue recognition and margin analysis.
- ** Logistics** to support on-time shipping and delivery coordination.
- ** Customer Service** to resolve post-order issues such as delays or changes.

**Required Qualifications**
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Supply Chain, Data Analytics, or related field.
- 2-5 years of experience in Sales Operations, Commercial Planning, Business Analysis, or similar roles in a **manufacturing or industrial** environment.
- Solid understanding of manufacturing processes, lead times, and supply chain dependencies.
- Experience working with CRM and ERP systems (Salesforce, SAP, Oracle, etc.).

**Technical Skills**
- Advanced Excel (pivot tables, nested formulas, Power Query, etc.).
- Familiarity with BI tools such as Power BI, Tableau, or Qlik.
- SQL or database querying skills (preferred but not mandatory).
- Strong data visualization and storytelling capabilities.

**Soft Skills**
- Excellent problem-solving and analytical thinking.
- Strong attention to detail and data accuracy.
- Clear written and verbal communication skills; able to interact across technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Highly organized with strong time management and multitasking skills.
- Proactive mindset with the ability to work independently and in teams.

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