Sr IT Business Analyst - Supply Planning & S&OP at MattelInc

The Opportunity:  We are seeking a highly skilled and proactive Sr. IT Business Analyst to support the Planning Tower, enabling end-to-end planning capabilities across multiple business functions including Demand Planning, Supply Planning, S&OP, Portfolio Management, Franchise, Analytics, and Allocation. This role will act as the strategic liaison between business stakeholders and technical delivery teams, ensuring that planning solutions are aligned to business needs, scalable, and insights driven. What Your Impact Will Be:  Requirements Gathering & Analysis • Partner with business functional leads across Demand Planning, Supply Planning, S&OP, Analytics, Franchise and Portfolio to gather, analyze, and prioritize business requirements. • Facilitate workshops and interviews to understand pain points, future needs, and value-driving improvements. • Translate complex business needs into clear, structured functional and non-functional requirements. Solution Design & Delivery Support • Work closely with solution architects, product managers, and development teams to validate and refine technical designs. • Define and maintain business process documentation, user stories, use cases, and workflows. • Ensure business alignment on design decisions, data models, KPIs, and reporting logic across the planning landscape.Testing & Deployment • Coordinate and support system testing, including SIT and UAT planning, test case development, and defect triage. • Validate that planning applications meet user expectations and business goals before deployment. • Provide go-live and hypercare support, ensuring successful transition into operations.Stakeholder Management & Communication • Serve as the single point of contact for Planning Tower-related initiatives. • Coordinate cross-functional inputs across Franchise, Allocation, and Analytics teams to drive business process alignment and integrated planning solutions. • Communicate progress, risks, and dependencies clearly to business and IT leadership.Continuous Improvement • Identify opportunities to streamline planning processes and drive automation, analytics, or system optimization. • Stay current on industry best practices and technology trends in integrated business planning (IBP), S&OP, and planning analytics. • Contribute to strategic roadmap planning for the Planning Tower. • Contribute to production support and documenting processes and facilitating enablement sessions to empower stakeholders with the necessary skills and knowledge to utilize IT solutions effectively.