Job DescriptionResponsibilities
• Own execution of business plans by framing risks, tradeoffs, and recovery options aligned to targets and customer commitments.
• Lead supply planning and allocation decisions, ensuring consistency of assumptions, metrics, and decision logic across revenue, supply, and customer priorities.
• Drive fact-based resolution of customer and supply escalations by defining decision options, impacts, and recommended forward paths.
• Manage delivery of business commitments and customer qualification readiness, interpreting signals to surface structural gaps, timing risks, and options.
• Translate near-term decisions into longer-term implications by supporting multi-quarter scenario framing and upside/downside analysis.
• Own weekly business reporting and executive updates focused on decision support, not status reporting.
• Partner closely with Sales, Operations, Commercial, and Finance teams to align inputs, interpretations, and outcomes.
• Support Finance with revenue attainment, close activities, and quarter-end decisions.
Qualifications• Minimum 0- 8+ years of experience in advanced analytics, strategy, business operations or planning roles; experience in complex manufacturing or technology environments required (storage industry experience preferred).
• Deep understanding of market dynamics, forecasting and business tradeoffs; strong financial literacy required.
• Advanced analytics and modeling capability; Excel/PowerBI required, query languages a strong plus.
• Proven ability to operate effectively across functions, manage ambiguity, and influence decisions without formal authority.
• Strong executive-ready written and verbal communication with demonstrated ability to translate analysis into clear recommendations.
Salary Range: 134,800.00-179,700.00
Compensation & Benefits Details- An employee's pay position within the salary range may be based on several factors including but not limited to (1) relevant education; qualifications; certifications; and experience; (2) skills, ability, knowledge of the job; (3) performance, contribution and results; (4) geographic location; (5) shift; (6) internal and external equity; and (7) business and organizational needs.
- The salary range is what we believe to be the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and this range is only applicable for jobs to be performed in California, Colorado, New York or remote jobs that can be performed in California, Colorado and New York. This range may be modified in the future.
- If your position is non-exempt, you are eligible for overtime pay pursuant to company policy and applicable laws. You may also be eligible for shift differential pay, depending on the shift to which you are assigned.
- You will be eligible to be considered for bonuses under either WD's Short Term Incentive Plan ("STI Plan") or the Sales Incentive Plan ("SIP") which provides incentive awards based on Company and individual performance, depending on your role and your performance. You may be eligible to participate in our annual Long-Term Incentive (LTI) program, which consists of restricted stock units (RSUs) or cash equivalents, pursuant to the terms of the LTI plan. Please note that not all roles are eligible to participate in the LTI program, and not all roles are eligible for equity under the LTI plan. RSU awards are also available to eligible new hires, subject to WD's Standard Terms and Conditions for Restricted Stock Unit Awards.
- We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid vacation time; paid sick leave; medical/dental/vision insurance; life, accident and disability insurance; tax-advantaged flexible spending and health savings accounts; employee assistance program; other voluntary benefit programs such as supplemental life and AD&D, legal plan, pet insurance, critical illness, accident and hospital indemnity; tuition reimbursement; transit; the Applause Program; employee stock purchase plan; and the WD Savings 401(k) Plan.
- Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company's sole discretion, consistent with the law.
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