The Demand Planning Manager is a lead position within the Accessories supply chain organization. As the Demand Planning Manager, you will collaborate with numerous cross-functional stakeholders to build and deliver a consensus demand plan that considers seasonality, promotional activities, and product transition plans, while balancing our financial targets.

As the Accessories business has had substantial growth in the last 3-5 years, this role is also responsible for developing new forecasting tools and scalable processes to simplify growing business complexities, improve forecast accuracy, and drive long term sales strategies. The demand planning manager will own diving deep into data, deriving insights amongst ambiguity, and presenting findings that influence business critical decisions. This role requires a strong bias for action and the ability to provide data driven insights quickly and effectively to peers and executives to deliver results.


Key job responsibilities
- Build demand planning models and provide risk analysis based on “what if” scenarios to drive strategic decisions and publish a consensus financial forecast.

- Be a leader in driving process improvements and automation for demand planning tools to reduce manual data aggregation and increase visibility to the forecast analysis.

- Act as a key contributor in demand reviews, sharing data driven alternatives to optimize the business in clear and succinct written format for both short and long term demand planning.

- Review historical sales trends, research demand drivers, validate sales inputs, develop statistical forecast models, and evaluate forecast results for both tops down and bottoms up planning.

- Work closely with channel and regional owners to understand the nuances of each unique sales channel and reconcile significant variances, refine forecasts to reflect updated sales and marketing strategies, and reduce forecast model variance across channels.

- Understand NPI roadmaps to manage product transitions through the full product life cycle.

- Dive deep with product management, sales channel owners, supply planning, marketing, and finance to understand demand forecast drivers and the downstream impacts of forecast changes.

- Engage with channel teams to collaborate on forecasting, and ensure that current and accurate information is used for demand forecasts through both formalized and ad hoc processes and reporting.

- Communicate ideas concisely to a wide variety of stakeholders for purposes ranging from informative to financial approval from executives.