📈 Sales Planning & Forecasting Analyst
Join a fast-paced and commercially critical team at AML, where Sales Planning is the central link between Gaydon and our global dealer network. In this influential role, your work will directly inform strategic decisions at the highest level, helping to shape operations, drive performance, and improve the accuracy of commercial data across the business.
🛠️ Role Overview As part of the Sales Planning team, you will own and evolve our volume planning and forecasting capabilities. You’ll work on tracking current performance against budget for the current year, along with a 24-month planning horizon, feeding into medium- and long-term business plans, and delivering insight-rich reports to senior leaders across Commercial, Finance, and Supply Chain functions. You’ll also spearhead improvements in data reliability and reporting infrastructure, helping deliver a best-in-class analytical framework.
Expect to lead reporting suite development using Tableau, manage transitions from legacy platforms with IT and Production teams, and represent Commercial Sales in key cross-functional initiatives. You’ll translate data into clear insights for S&OP and Board presentations—making a measurable impact at the highest level.
🧠 Your Key Responsibilities
- Deliver robust forecasting and planning reports aligned to business objectives
- Own the monthly reporting of business performance against key sales metrics
- Support strategic scenario modelling and sensitivity analysis
- Maintain and evolve dashboards for performance tracking and stakeholder reporting
- Improve ownership and accuracy of commercial data across departments
- Analyse regional data inputs to develop executive-level recommendations
- Represent Commercial Sales in system transitions, ensuring future scalability
- Collaborate across Product Strategy, Marketing, Finance, IT, Manufacturing and Retail functions
🚀 What Makes This Role Special Your insights won’t sit in spreadsheets—they’ll inform strategy across global markets. This is a highly autonomous position, trusted to deliver directly to Commercial Directors and the senior leadership team, with visibility across board-level decision making. The work you do here influences how we build, forecast, and sell—worldwide.
🎯 Who You Are You’re an independent thinker with a passion for precision and progress. You thrive on taking raw data and crafting clarity, and you’re confident operating at a strategic level in a high-performance culture.
- Exceptional attention to detail and analytical ability
- Positive, resilient mindset with a curious and proactive nature
- Adaptable and comfortable managing multiple deadlines and shifting priorities
- Excellent communicator who brings clarity and impact to presentations
- Able to engage credibly with senior leaders and cross-functional teams
💻 Software & Data Expertise
- Essential: Advanced Microsoft Excel (including formulae, pivot tables, macros)
- Desirable: Tableau, Cognos, Salesforce; ERP systems experience; VBA proficiency
🌍 Why AML? We’re committed to nurturing talent through exposure, opportunity, and inclusion. As an Analyst, you’ll build strong relationships across a range of departments, giving you a powerful network and platform for career development. You’ll be part of a brand with global reach, rooted in British innovation and world-class craftsmanship.
Belong at Aston Martin
We understand that the incredible beauty, craft, and art that defines an Aston Martin comes from the inclusion of our amazing people.
We welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of your education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, colour, religion, disability, sexual orientation, and beliefs. We celebrate diversity and are seeking applicants who can bring something different.
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