Manager Demand Planning Jobs

Job Title: Manager Demand Planning

Division: Consumer

Location: Hudson Yards, NY

Reports To: Director Demand Planning

Who We Are

For more than a century, L’Oréal has devoted its energy, innovation, and scientific excellence solely to one business: Beauty. Our goal is to offer each and every person around the world the best of beauty in terms of quality, efficacy, safety, sincerity and responsibility to satisfy all beauty needs and desires in their infinite diversity.

What You Will Learn

The Demand Planning Manager will partner with Sales, Marketing, Operations and Finance to develop an accurate demand forecast for all SKUs in the designated area of the business.  Accountable to provide focus and integration of data from Marketing, Sales, Customer Marketing, and Finance, which are used to develop accurate and timely forecasts supporting Operations, Sales and Financial Planning. Ensure consistency of forecast assumptions across the business unit, including base business trends, promotional plans, new launch volumes, planogram changes and seasonal volume. 

Job Responsibilities

• Communicate demand forecast plans and the assumptions behind them through the supply chain.  Work closely with the Supply Planning/MSL team to identify and resolve changes in the forecast and their impact on the supply chain.
• Responsible for understanding and reinforcing manufacturing, marketing and financial processes to link/align with forecasting processes. 
• Update and monitor process key performance indicators and diagnostics to ensure continual forecast improvement efforts and prepare written analyses, documentation, reports or other data of a quality requiring minimal supervisory review
• Gather and incorporate all sources of market intelligence to produce the best possible operational forecast.
• Establish and manage SKU level statistical forecasts for their specific area of accountability (Logility). 
• Provide guidance / oversight of SKU level forecasts, to ensure alignment with business direction and consistency with market trends.

Job Requirements

What we are looking for:

• Data management/databases
• Consumer marketing
• Must have ability to work cross functionally, build relationships and excel in a team environment
• Software Skills: Proficiency with MS Office required, intermediate MS Excel required, advanced Excel helpful; experience with a forecast modeling tool preferred,  e.g. Logility;  SAP experience helpful
• OLAP tools
• Minimum 5 years work experience preferably within a FMCG industry; minimum of 2 years forecasting experience required
• Working knowledge of:
• Mass market retail environment
• Supply chain operations
• Bachelor’s degree required; preferably in the area of Supply Chain, Mathematics, Statistics, Operations Research, or other quantitative business discipline)
• Use of quantitative methods to analyze situations and solve business problems

Additional Benefits Information As Follows

Salary Range: $98,000-137,000 (The actual compensation will depend on a variety of job-related factors which may include geographic location, work experience, education, and skill level)  

• Competitive Benefit Package (Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K, Pension Plan)  
• Employee Resource Groups (Think Tanks and Innovation Squads)  
• Flexible Time Off (Paid Company Holidays, Paid Vacation, Vacation Buy Program, Volunteer Time, Summer Fridays & More!)  
• Learning & Development Opportunities (Unlimited Access to E-learnings, Lunch & Learn Sessions, Mentorship Programs, & More!)  
• Access to Company Perks (VIP Access to L’Oréal’s Internal Shop for Discounted Products, Monthly Mobile Allowance)  
• Access to Mental Health & Wellness Programs   

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and take pride in a diverse environment. We do not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion or other employment practices for reasons of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, marital or veteran status, medical condition or disability, or any other legally protected status.

If you require a reasonable accommodation to complete an application for a recognized disability under applicable law, please email [email protected]. Please note this email will only respond to specific requests for assistance completing the application as a request for accommodation for a disability. All others will not be considered.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and take pride in a diverse environment. We do not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion or other employment practices for reasons of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, marital or veteran status, medical condition or disability, or any other legally protected status.

If you require a reasonable accommodation to complete an application for a recognized disability under applicable law, please email [email protected]. Please note this email will only respond to specific requests for assistance completing the application as a request for accommodation for a disability. All others will not be considered.