Senior Demand Planner Jobs

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The Senior Demand Planner will be a part of the global demand planning team, responsible for building a best-in-class demand planning function necessary to accelerate YETI's high growth business. This individual will have significant experience with global demand planning, necessary excel skills to manipulate large and disparate data sets, and experience navigating from a manual excel based planning processes to a more stable system-based process (SAP IBP). This individual will work cross-functionally to understand the needs of the business as well as create and maintain a forecast that aligns with YETI's financial goals, while also helping shape the inventory and execution strategy to best balance supply and demand. Ideal candidates will have experience with highly seasonal business models as well as experience with constrained inventory management.

Position Type (See Workplace Approach Below): Hybrid

Responsibilities:

• Analyze historical performance and recent trends to provide assortment recommendations to accounts for new product launches and seasonal colors
• Identify key demand signal trends, provide business insight, and coordinate recommendations/actions
• Participate in the implementation of a new SAP IBP planning system to optimize planning accuracy and master data translations across teams
• Analyze and track weekly sell thru and inventory data to understand trends and opportunities
• Provide input and help develop demand strategies on existing items, new products, and product phase-outs
• Utilize a variety of analytical and statistical forecasting methods to create accurate demand plans
• Responsible for communicating to all internal and external stakeholders in the demand planning process including supply planning, allocation, merchandising, finance, product development, and many other stakeholder teams
• Identify and understand critical risks and opportunities and the impact on planned demand

Qualifications and Attributes:

• Excellent verbal and written communications skills
• Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Analytics, or related field
• Highly proficient in Microsoft Excel (vlookups, sumifs, index/match, pivot tables, etc.) and PowerPoint
• At least 6 years of experience in Planning, Buying, Sales Operations, or Finance roles with experience planning and forecasting
• Experience navigating from manual excel based planning processes to ERP solutions preferred
• Familiarity with SQL, Python, Tableau preferred not required
• Able to work in an ambiguous, fast-growing team-first environment
• Combine curiosity with critical thinking and good judgment, and like asking "why" to unravel a seemingly complex problem and get to the root cause
• Is known for developing and delivering results on a timely basis
• Attention to detail, strong business acumen, love digging into data and finding drivers to demand
• Self-starter and persistent with strong analytical and organizational skills
• Ability to handle changing priorities and use good judgment in stressful situations

US Workplace Approach:

• Remote: Role is full-time remote.
• Hybrid: Role requires you to be located in Austin, Texas and is a mixture of onsite and remote.
• Onsite: Role requires you to be onsite full-time.

Approach may vary based on role.

YETI is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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