Demand Planning Manager Jobs

Our client, a global luxury cosmetics brand, is seeking an analytical Global Business Planning Manager to support their product forecasting operations!

Remote, EST Business Hours

$45-55/hr depending on experience

W2 Contract through end of Dec 2023, potential to extend or convert

NEW PRODUCT FORECASTING

• Global Business Planners create new product volume estimates/forecasts from the Concept stage through the Monitor stage. Business Planners collaborate to support brand marketing & financial objectives through action in the following New Product Process:

o Prepare objective, fact-based, detailed forecast assumptions and projections for each saleable SKU/market combination. Volumes support the innovation planning process across functions.

o Provide detailed analyses of historic internal and external like-product performance (shipments and sell thru where available) and market trends. Utilize to recommend forecast benchmarks and estimates including the creation of most-likely scenarios for sales, cannibalization, marketing support, door distribution plans, market share/category growth projections, pipe estimates. Communicate forecast guidelines to the regions and assist them in incorporating them into their business plans.

o Global Business Planners negotiate with Global Marketing, Regional Sales & Marketing and Regional Demand Planning teams to gain consensus on projections/assumptions.

o Proactively re-evaluate projections as needed throughout the Innovation to Execution stages and create/issue detailed forecast guidelines by market/SKU to affiliates for local forecasting.

o Investigate unexpected and/or missing forecasts and approve final forecast volumes, gaining consensus where results differ materially from original projections.

STRATEGIC BUSINESS PLANNING & REPORTING ANALYTICS

• Global Business Planners are critical in ongoing Strategic & Financial Planning processes by identifying sales opportunities at the category/product/market levels, creating and presenting reporting to optimize the business.

• Formulate business and portfolio analytics to support the Global Brand. This includes the issuance of several standard monthly and quarterly reports as well as new ad-hoc analyses.

• Provide analytical support for the annual innovation planning, strategy, budget and long-term planning process.

• Evaluate actuals vs. plan/prior year, analyze variances and initiate appropriate corrective actions working through the Regional and Affiliate Brand, Demand Planning, Supply Chain, Finance, and Global Marketing organizations.

• Produce, analyze and issue reports such as the Innovation Sufficiency Side-by-Side, Mix-of-Business, Retail/Trade Inventory Analysis, Phase-Out Assessment, and Time Phased Safety Stock Volume Estimates.

• Identify opportunities for and develop analytics to continue to evolve reporting and analysis within the brand.

• Utilize reporting to provide insights and recommendations for action to brand leadership and the Regional teams.

• Assess brand sales trends across all Regions and Markets and drive for adjustments to improve demand plans.

• Drive for Promotional sufficiency. Monitor the usage plans for the Non-Saleable product portfolio which includes Samples, Gifts, Testers, and Collateral items.

BUSINESS PLANNER SKILL SETS

• Position calls for highly analytical, technical, inquisitive, self-starters who embrace and initiate change. Requires strong demand forecasting and analytic skills with proven record of consensus–building across various disciplines and levels of management.

• Analytical experience in demand planning, marketing, sales planning, finance, predictive modeling, supply chain.

• Undergraduate degree in Business, Finance, Marketing, Engineering. Master’s degree helpful but not required.

• 5+ years broad functional combined experience in the following preferred: Demand Planning, Marketing Analytics, Finance, Supply Chain, Business Development, Consulting.

• Strong Microsoft Office Skills- Advanced Excel Skills, strong PowerPoint skills.

• Experience with Tableau, Alteryx, and SAP preferred.

• Strong Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) knowledge base.

• Strong knowledge of the demand planning process and business planning; Systems thinking mindset.

• Excellent analytical, critical thinking, detail orientation, presentation, collaboration, and negotiation skills.

Russell Tobin offers benefits options available after 59 days of employment

At this time, we are not able to offer sponsorship