Planning Analytics Manager Cover Letter

In response to your job posting for planning analytics manager, I am including this letter and my resume for your review.

In the previous role, I was responsible for support for ad hoc vehicle sales, stock and pipeline data analyses, making recommendations to the Sales organization and to senior management.

Please consider my experience and qualifications for this position:

• Proven cross-functional leadership experience in implementing new tools and processes
• Experience working with and guiding international teams
• Specific experience in “stitching” customer data from disparate data sources to enable operational reporting and studies
• Spreadsheet skills with experience managing large data sets, conducting time series analysis, and building models with sensitivity analysis
• Experience using data mining tools like Business Objects, SAS, or Hyperion
• Familiarity with data discovery tools like QlikView or Tableau
• Expertise in strategic and financial planning, forecasting, KPI target development, and actionable analytics for Telco field management
• Pharmaceutical industry budget management experience with commercial or scientific functions preferred

In response to your job posting for planning analytics manager, I am including this letter and my resume for your review.

Previously, I was responsible for holistic analyses incorporating multiple data sources, including internal and external, qualitative and quantitative, sales and customer data, to tell the whole “story”.

Please consider my experience and qualifications for this position:

• Provide timely analysis, advice and support to the Regional President and his staff
• Partner with regional budget holders to understand and challenge key assumptions underlying budgets, forecasts, and strategic plans
• Responsibility for Regional capital expenditure preparation and Post Implementation Analysis working closely with operational management
• Industry and competitor analysis for region specific product lines
• Pro-active attitude with team oriented, collaborative working style
• Experience of SAP or similar integrated ERP system
• Strong experience in web analytics tools such as Google Analytics
• Highly tuned to the Workforce Analytics space, with a clear understanding of the path forward in this rapidly evolving space

I would like to submit my application for the planning analytics manager opening. Please accept this letter and the attached resume.

In the previous role, I was responsible for executional capability in gathering, merging, cleansing, manipulating and applying statistical techniques to data to drive anomaly detection, predictive modelling and other insight.

Please consider my qualifications and experience:

• Strong excel expertise, SAP (R3/BW/FICO) and TM1 experience
• Knowledge of HCM Systems, Workday preferred
• Microsoft Office - Advanced Excel, VBA and strong PowerPoint
• Proven industry experience in data analytics
• Experience of leading a team, able to mentor and inspire the team by defining and communicating a vision
• Exposure to the BI/Analytics tools/languages such as Business Objects, Tableau, Qlikview, R, Python, SQL
• Deep expertise in Excel including but not limited to PowerPivot, data tables, macros, data connections
• Understanding of agile mindset, knowledge of test, measure and learn

In response to your job posting for planning analytics manager, I am including this letter and my resume for your review.

In my previous role, I was responsible for ad-hoc financial analyses and reports to Commercial Teams to drive stronger business decisions and margin improvement.

Please consider my experience and qualifications for this position:

• Passion for uncovering insights and conveying data driven recommendations to the business
• Experience partnering with executive level business leaders, forming relationships as a trusted advisor that goes beyond “order taking”
• Clear, articulate and persuasive communicator that projects confidence and can inspire teams
• Comfortable working in ambiguous situations, where detailed business objectives need to be refined via experimentation
• Experience solving problems using advanced quantitative approaches, passion for empirical research and answering hard questions with data
• Strong knowledge of Excel/Access, data modeling, statistical analysis, financial modeling and predictive modeling
• Strong analytical, problem solving, communication and PC skills in Excel and VBA
• Excellent leadership skills – including team leadership, thought leadership, problem solving, and collaboration

In response to your job posting for planning analytics manager, I am including this letter and my resume for your review.

Previously, I was responsible for national reporting and analyses to support the broad commercial organization and the senior sales and marketing management team.

Please consider my experience and qualifications for this position:

• Experience leading a team within a leading CPG company
• Experience developing business analytics function and process and developing advanced ROI models to evaluate business investment
• A Power user in Excel Excel and/or other Data Analytics, proficient in MS Office suite (Powerpoint, Word, Visio, etc), ERP systems
• Experience with SAP and/or JDE
• Practical working experience with HR analytics, Reporting, HR KPIs and Headcount planning
• Proven track record of developing and using HR analytics to solve different cases
• Knowledge and experience of using different tools for HR analytics for data visualization
• Genuine interest in processes, methods, reporting and tools