Global Demand Planner

Company: HireTalent
Location: Beaverton
Posted on: March 20, 2023

Job Description:

Job Title : Global Demand Planner
Job Location : Beaverton, OR (Remote)
Duration : 12 months W2

Job Title:
GEOGRAPHY & DEPARTMENT NAME
PRE-POPULATED our client HEADER

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• Become a Part of the our client, Inc. Team
  
• our client, Inc. does more than outfit the world's best athletes.
  
• It is a place to explore potential, obliterate boundaries and push out the edges of what can be.
  
• The company looks for people who can grow, think, dream and create.
  
• Its culture thrives by embracing diversity and rewarding imagination.
  
• The brand seeks achievers, leaders and visionaries.
  
• At our client, it s about each person bringing skills and passion to a challenging and constantly evolving game.
  
  
  [SPECIFIC ORG INTRODUCTION. USE 3RD-PERSON POV. PARAGRAPH FORMAT.]
  
  WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR
  [DESCRIBE THE NEED. USE 3RD-PERSON POV. PARAGRAPH FORMAT.]
  We re looking for a Global Consumer Planner, Global Men s Footwear
  In this role, you will utilize your subject matter expertise across various global functional areas in Product, Merchandising, and Planning to focus on the Consumer first as we plan for future our client Product and Consumer needs. You will own industry standard planning tools, including Ladder Plans (Open to Buy), Line Plan Architecture, and Assortment plans. This person will triangulate Retail Metric driven insights with Product and Merch teams to enable a more productive line plan creation. You will assess future risk and opportunity in the marketplace and communicate that risk and opportunity to your cross functional partners to help enable them make better informed decisions. You will collaborate across geographies to understand the individual geography marketplaces and utilize those insights to help shape your future demand. You will navigate our Matrix of internal partners and collaboratively make fact-based decisions advised by collective expertise, strategic business priorities, stakeholder input, and most importantly data driven metrics.
  The candidate needs to be able to:
  1.Be high functioning an an ambiguous environment
  2.Move with agility through a quickly changing environment
  3.Identify future marketplace risk and problem solve against how to move forward to ease that risk
  4.Recommend to senior leadership how the enterprise needs to move forward based on future forecasting insights and scenario planning options
  5.Develop forecasting scenario s that take into account holistic marketplace and industry trends and business strategy
  6.Drive alignment and clarity across cross functional partners
  7.Constantly evolve ideas and solutions to meet and accelerate new business needs
  8.A deep curiosity on asking the why around consumer and marketplace behavior
  
  WHAT YOU WILL WORK ON
  [EXPLAIN THE DAY-TO-DAY. USE 2ND-PERSON POV. PARAGRAPH FORMAT.]
  If this is you, you ll be working with Global Gender, Product/Merchanding, Finance, Strategy, and Long Range Planning teams along with Geo Consumer Planning teams while doing the following:
  1.Recommending to cross functional teams assortment depth and flow
  2.Recommending slot investments to support the Line Architecture to align with Consumer Demand
  3.Forecast and update monthly ladder plans 2 years out and make recommendations on product forecast adjustments that need to take place to align with marketplace health measures
  4.Present to cross functional partners and senior leadership on the how and why forecasts changed and what that means for future consumer product forecasts
  
  WHO YOU WILL WORK WITH
  [DESCRIBE RELATIONSHIPS/COLLABORATORS. USE 2ND-PERSON POV. PARAGRAPH FORMAT.]
  This is the our client matrix: Who they will be managing / reporting to / teams and divisions they will liaise with
  See above
  
  WHAT YOU BRING
  [Client OUT THE REQUIREMENTS. BULLETED FORMAT.]
  Must Have:
  
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  • Proven experience in using planning tools
    
  • Working knowledge of Retail Metrics (Sales, Inventory, Sell thru, Weeks of Supply, Trend based forecasting, revenue and margin impacts on line planning structure), and the ability to manipulate data for scenario planning purposes
    
  • Deliver clear and concise verbal and written communication
    
  • Working knowledge of end to end planning
    
  • Interest in, and understanding of, consumer and retail trends
    
  • Excellent Microsoft Office skills, particularly in excel
    
    
    
    
    Duties:
    
    The nature of the work is focused on the effective and efficient distribution of products and services to customers. Utilize advanced forecasting and analysis techniques to anticipate consumer demand and market trends. Develop detailed product demand pull plans for assigned category that result in high forecast accuracy, thereby contributing to our client and customer profitability. Provide technical expertise and mentoring within demand pull planning function. Develops, integrates and provides short-term accounts or brand specific forecasts for internal operations which include replenishment data, customer data, sales promotion information, marketing plans and new distribution/product deletions. Use statistical analysis and data-driven decision making tools for the validation of initial seasonal product by category. Support with documentation, timely communication and technical consulting. Analyzes internal demand stream information, and categorizes according to demand patterns. Use expertise to employ statistical techniques, business targets, causal factors, external market and sell-through analysis, that result in highly accurate forecasts. Achieve a high degree of professional expertise in leading edge, sophisticated decision making tools and advance forecasting within our client from a qualitative to a more quantitative / statistical process.
    
    Skills:
    
    Experience in a forecasting or buying capacity. Typical Office: This is a typical office job, with no special physical requirements or unusual work environment.

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