Resource Planning Analyst at Manulife in Charlotte, NC

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Job Duties: Provide customers, portfolio managers, stakeholders, and property management teams with forward-looking forestry investment performance decision support for forecasting asset-level wood flows, cash flows, and returns on investment based on data acquired from model assumption gathering and construction, yield development, forestry investment sensitivity analysis, and operational analysis including price forecasting as member of Resource Planning Team. Duties include: Provide technical support including mapping and associated analysis required for compiling annual harvests, reforestation, and other site preparation activities; Develop Comprehensive Property Management Plans for client timberland properties; Assist with preparation and scheduling of assumption meetings with Operations, Client Account Management Group, and Global Resource Planning; Coordinate with yield development personnel to ensure building and loading of yields into database; Build, run, and analyze strategic models, and 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 required for customer consensus; Support conformance with SFI certification requirements and support management systems that enable advancement of organization’s forest stewardship commitment; and Assist with advancement of business development objectives including property transactions, timberland and farmland investment analysis, decision support tools, systems, and other strategic business objectives. Work Arrangement requirement: Hybrid from Charlotte office (3 days from office, 2 days from home) Minimum Requirements: Master’s degree or foreign equivalent in Forestry, Forest Resources, Forestry Science or closely related field and 1 year of experience using GIS management and analysis to analyze forest resource information. Experience must include the following, which may be gained concurrently: 1 year of experience using SQL Server, Python, or other RDBMS to perform data analysis of forest timber investments. 1 year of experience managing timberland and agricultural asset management projects including reviewing financial returns and environmental metrics for quality assurance. 1 year of forest finance experience including discounted cash flow analysis, forest inventory, wood flow optimization, and carbon markets using GIS systems. 1 year of GIS data management, spatial analysis, and map production experience using Esri software products including ArcPro, ArcMap, Esri Collector, and web based workflows; 1 year of experience with silviculture and growth and yield models for North American forestry operations. 1 year of timber investment experience including appraisals, acquisitions, dispositions, forest inventory, timber valuation, forest finance, and crop management operations. Salary: $85,925 per year The role being advertised is an existing vacancy. About Manulife and John Hancock Manulife Financial Corporation is a leading international financial services provider, helping people make their decisions easier and lives better. To learn more about us, visit https://www.manulife.com/en/about/our-story.html . Manulife is an Equal Opportunity Employer At Manulife/John Hancock, we embrace our diversity. We strive to attract, develop and retain a workforce that is as diverse