Job Description:

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 that are close to the end-of-life stage in the product life cycle. They help aggregate feedback from Marketing, Operations, and Customer Service to aide in Leadership's decisions on SKU rationalization.

Essential Functions:

• Track sales performance for older product lines, 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.

• Minimum of 1 year of 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 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
• Bilingual advanced level