Resource Planning Analyst

Manulife • Charlotte, NC

5d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Resource Planning Analyst is a member of the Resource Planning Team and provides customers, portfolio managers, stakeholders, and property management teams with forward-looking forestry investment performance decision support. The role forecasts asset-level wood flows, cash flows, and returns on investment using model assumption gathering and construction, yield development, forestry investment sensitivity analysis, and operational analysis, including price forecasting.

The position supports strategic and tactical planning for client timberland properties, including preparing and analyzing models, coordinating with operations and other teams, supporting GIS and data tools, and contributing to property appraisals, due diligence, forest stewardship, and business development. The role is hybrid from the Charlotte office, with three days in the office and two days working from home.

Requirements

• Master’s degree or foreign equivalent in Forestry, Forest Resources, Forestry Science, or a closely related field.
• At least 1 year of experience using GIS management and analysis to analyze forest resource information.
• At least 1 year of experience using SQL Server, Python, or another RDBMS to perform data analysis of forest timber investments.
• At least 1 year of experience managing timberland and agricultural asset management projects, including reviewing financial returns and environmental metrics for quality assurance.
• At least 1 year of forest finance experience, including discounted cash flow analysis, forest inventory, wood flow optimization, and carbon markets using GIS systems.
• At least 1 year of GIS data management, spatial analysis, and map production experience using Esri products, including ArcPro, ArcMap, Esri Collector, and web-based workflows.
• At least 1 year of experience with silviculture and growth and yield models for North American forestry operations.
• At least 1 year of timber investment experience, including appraisals, acquisitions, dispositions, forest inventory, timber valuation, forest finance, and crop management operations.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical support, including mapping and associated analysis, for compiling annual harvests, reforestation, and other site preparation activities.
• Develop Comprehensive Property Management Plans for client timberland properties.
• Assist with preparing and scheduling assumption meetings with Operations, Client Account Management Group, and Global Resource Planning.
• Coordinate with yield development personnel to ensure yields are built and loaded into the database.
• Build, run, and analyze strategic models; identify potential issues using Remsoft Woodstock Optimization Studio.
• Present strategic model results to Operations, Client Account Management Group, and Global Resource Planning for review and approval.
• Prepare data for tactical planning, coordinate with Operations to create tactical plans, and use Remsoft Woodstock Optimization Studio to run plans, analyze results, and identify potential issues.
• Present tactical model results to Operations, Client Account Management Group, and Global Resource Planning.
• Support effective operational deployment of GIS tools, information collection tools, analysis tools, and applications.
• Support property data tabulation for periodic property appraisals.
• Hypothesize forestry investment modeling outcomes and develop due diligence needed to reach customer consensus.
• Support conformance with SFI certification requirements and management systems that advance the organization's forest stewardship commitment.
• Assist with business development objectives, including property transactions, timberland and farmland investment analysis, decision support tools and systems, and other strategic business objectives.

Benefits

• Eligible employees may receive health, dental, mental health, and vision coverage.
• Short- and long-term disability insurance, life and AD&D insurance coverage.
• Adoption and surrogacy benefits, wellness benefits, and employee/family assistance plans.
• Retirement savings plans, including pension and 401(k) plans, and a global share ownership plan with employer matching contributions.
• Financial education and counseling resources.
• Paid time off program including up to 11 paid holidays, 3 personal days, 150 hours of vacation, and 40 hours of sick time (or more where required by law).
• Statutory leaves of absence.
• Incentive programs with compensation tied to business and individual performance.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level