Associate Manager, Demand Forecasting and Tracking - Strategy & Operations

DoorDash DoorDash · Consumer · Los Angeles, CA · 641 Ads & Promotions Strategy

Associate Manager role focused on demand forecasting and tracking for DoorDash's CPG Ads business. The role involves owning partner GMV forecasting, JBP scenario planning, establishing demand tracking capabilities, and supporting internal planning processes. It requires strong analytical rigor, SQL experience, and the ability to build scalable forecasting tools. The candidate should be comfortable using AI tools to accelerate output.

What you'd actually do

  1. Own Partner GMV Forecasting: Leading the development of our capabilities to accurately project CPG partner growth that will occur on the DoorDash platform.
  2. Own JBP Scenario Planning: Empowering our sales and partnerships team to effectively model different outcome scenarios based on different investment decisions based on CPG partnership goals and objectives
  3. Establish Demand Tracking Capabilities: Help the team to diagnose business performance and what is driving weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual performance vs plan.
  4. Support our Internal Planning Process: Work cross functionally with finance and sales operations to help ensure that we are building the most accurate and effective internal revenue goals.

Skills

Required

  • 4+ years of experience in retail, CPG or media forecasting and analytics
  • strong business and analytical rigor
  • advanced SQL and analytics experience

Nice to have

  • AI tools to accelerate your output (i.e. Cursor, Claude Code)

What the JD emphasized

  • building scalable forecasting tools