Our client has a 50 year legacy of providing luxury, performance, and recreational consumer products.
They are looking for an experienced Director of Demand Planning that understands how to build consensus and business processes that span across many functions and geographies in a highly seasonal business.
This person will work strategically and tactically within the organization and will have responsibility over the Demand Planning processes and governance.
This is a unique opportunity to work in an exciting and innovative company that has an impressive legacy of advancing their industry on a daily basis.
Position Description:
This is a branded consumer products company serving the needs of millions of through many different sales channels including mass merchants, e-commerce, and distributors world-wide.
As the Operations team continues to grow and take shape of best-in-class organization, we are looking for a seasoned demand planning professional to take charge of a business-critical, complex and yet exciting responsibility.
The role will be primarily based out of our Boston area office with appropriate freedom of decision-making and ownership as well as hybrid structure of work environment.
Responsibilities:
Lead a team of Demand Planners to deliver plans for their assigned set of customers / brands.
Advance demand planning standard methodologies, sets strategic and tactical goals for the organization, and drive follow through of major milestones.
Acts as the voice of the team in all cross-functional discussions within and outside of US responsibility.
Supports a culture of exception management by proactively identifying major issues and opportunities around demand and supply.
Drives a culture of excellence in analysis and execution while taking ownership of identifying issues in Demand Planning to drive quantifiable solutions and positive business results.
Leads monthly demand-supply reconciliation and S&OP process in collaboration with cross functional partners.
Creates systemic processes with in-depth retail analysis skills to deliver an agnostic view of shipment potential.
Participates in goal setting and is the active leader in forecast accuracy improvement.
Background Required:
Bachelor’s Degree.
5-10 years’ experience in supply chain, specifically in demand, supply, and allocation planning for toy industry, retail or comparable seasonal high SKU-count CPG industry such as fashion.
Ability to thrive in a global, multi-cultural or multi-country environment while building cross functional trusted partnerships and facilitating consensus within and across work teams.
A strong work knowledge of effective supply chain performance, including customer service, supplier and asset management.
Passion for crafting process and systems improvement.
Skills in analysis, influencing, negotiation, communication and navigating a sophisticated global organization.
Energy for working in a sophisticated, collaborative, fast-paced environment, and handling several projects at a time.
Miscellaneous:
Compensation commensurate with experience including bonus.
Full benefit package including 401k.
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