Manager, Demand Planning Jobs

We’re FORMA. An incubator, accelerator, and curator of today’s beauty brands.

We celebrate, support, and seek those changing the world through creative expression. Each brand in our portfolio is thoughtfully selected, acquired, or created because of the products it offers, the stories it tells, and the beauty it spreads.

We’re a team made of: Equal parts thinkers and doers. Visionaries and operators. Strategists and creatives— we're united by a fierce entrepreneurial spirit. Our dive in, roll your sleeves up, get your hands' dirty approach to every project leads to extraordinary outcomes, and to some of the most popular beauty products on shelves today. We're a creative, professional, highly collaborative, seasoned, well-oiled team. We're in the business of beauty for a reason. There's nothing our team of 200+ people love more than a good challenge, a great product, and the opportunity to make, celebrate, and spread beauty at scale.

Summary Of Position

• Lead the demand management activities for key accounts, and deliver best in class forecasting processes, metrics and behaviors
• Support best in class service and inventory levels by creating and executing a structured and repeatable demand planning monthly collaboration calendar
• Deliver forecast accuracy and bias KPI’s to meet annual targets. Increase demand forecasting accuracy by removing forecast bias, utilizing robust analytics, and reviewing brand and market trends.

Principle Accountabilities

• Merge business knowledge and expertise with statistical models to enhance the forecast while integrating input from Sales, Marketing, Customers and other key stakeholders
• Partner with key parties to gather forecast inputs (building blocks) based on functional expertise. Influence and drive alignment with Marketing, Sales, Customers and Finance to create new product launch forecasts
• Lead the monthly Consensus meetings with sales and customers to aid delivering accurate forecasts which will be used to drive critical downstream commercial and operations business processes
• Monitor performance vs. the forecast throughout the month identifying any key shifts or trends. Analyze forecast variation/deviation with the goal to minimize service issues and prevent the build of excess & obsolete inventory
• Support the development and implementation of new systems, processes, models, and KPI performance reporting tools
• Manage the product range inclusive of product life-cycle. Analyze and interpret SKU effectiveness and efficiency, guide/drive SKU rationalization
• Participate in stage gate process and support Marketing teams to develop innovation forecasts

Key Working Relationships

• Demand Planning
• Marketing
• Sales
• Project Management
• Customers

Required Skills & Experience

• Minimum of 5+ years demand planning experience
• Experience of S&OP and forecasting processes in a CPG environment
• Proficient in Microsoft office applications with emphasis on Excel, Word, and Outlook.
• Very numerical, analytical and detail orientated with strong results focus
• Experience with Demand Planning systems
• A strong collaborator, with a willingness to drive change and to lead by example

Travel Requirements

• Travel to offsite meetings as needed. 5%

Physical Requirements

Must be able to perform essential functions (with or without an accommodation) without posing a "direct threat" to the health and safety to self or others.

Additional Information

FORMA Brands takes a market-based approach to pay, and amounts will vary depending on your geographic location. The salary range reflected here is for positions based in the Greater Los Angeles area. The successful candidate’s starting pay will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, work location, and market conditions. These ranges may be modified in the future without notice.

Compensation Range: $90,000 - $125,000

The Company reserves the right to alter, change, abolish and even combine jobs depending upon changing conditions.