Demand Planning Manager
Who You Are:
You love to derive insights and projections from the study of data.
You understand the complexities of an omni-channel business operating in the DTC, retail and salon spaces.
You blend a background in retail merchandise planning with traditional demand planning.
You build strong relationships with planning counterparts at your retail customer and develop equally strong collaborations with internal stakeholders.
You place a high value on a positive company culture because the environment you work in is as important as what you are doing.
What you will do:
- Lead the demand/merchandise planning function to consistently deliver against company goals across all three channels of distribution.
- Develop strong working relationships with internal stakeholders including: Marketing, Product Innovation, Sales, Supply Chain, Finance, Engineering and Hair Color Bar Operations.
- Establish strong working relationships with the retail partner planning and buying teams through regular meetings to review sales trends, forecasts and promotional plans.
- Prepare wholesale performance reporting with key insights at the close of each week/month.
- Own the continuous improvement and maintenance of the wholesale forecast model ensuring it is updated with the most recent sales and promotional plans at each retail partner.
- Manage the forecast models for the MR Direct and Hair Color Bar sales channels striving to keep the MAPE variance score within target.
- Support the onboarding of new retail partners as required through collaborative development of store set orders and ongoing replenishment orders with the partner planning and buying teams.
- Lead the monthly S&OP meeting in collaboration with the manager of Supply Planning to develop consensus surrounding key forecast assumptions, promotional lifts, launch forecasts and product transitions.
- Coordinate all new product launch and product phase out SKU transitions with the Supply Chain and Sales teams to maximize the revenue potential while minimizing excess and obsolete inventory exposure.
- Establish best in class KPI metrics to assess the effectiveness of our forecasting process in each channel.
- Support business stakeholders with ad hoc analysis as required.
What you will need
- Bachelor’s degree preferred with strong relevant work experience.
- 5
– 8 years of merchandise and demand planning experience in a retail and CPG brand setting. - Experience with NetSuite ERP is preferred but not required if the candidate has similar ERP experience on a different platform such as SAP, JD Edwards, Oracle, etc.
- Demonstrated exceptional strength in excel based analysis and data manipulation.
- Strong communication skills, ability to be firm but diplomatic and concurrently build effective working relationships.
- Rigorous attention to detail including proven ability to manage multiple, competing priorities simultaneously.
- Highly organized with the ability to drive high level strategic thinking while also rolling up your sleeves to get the job done with a focus on issue resolution.
- Demonstrated ability to effectively navigate in an ambiguous environment to achieve high levels of performance and deliver sustainable results to the team.
Big on Benefits:
The Perks?
Glad you asked…
- 100% Company Paid Medical, Dental, and Vision (100% EE/50% DEP)
- 100% Company Paid Short and Long Term Disability
- 401k Participation
- Continuing Education Contributions
- HSA Employer Contributions and FSA Options
- Parental Leave Program
- Paid Time Off
- Complimentary Madison Reed Products + Discounts on Hair Color Bar Services
- Company sponsored events
- But wait, there’s more…
We are Madison Reed.
We’re disrupting a $50 billion industry.
Since 2013, we’ve offered our clients the option to truly own their beauty with a revolutionary choice-your place or ours?
Home or Hair Color Bar?
Our professional hair color is truly omnichannel, with the option to order or subscribe through our website, pick up in-store at our Hair Color Bars, or make an appointment at one of our Hair Color Bar locations (over 20 & growing).
At our Hair Color Bars, clients can choose from a variety of color services from licensed cosmetologists-permanent hair color, roots only, hair gloss, highlights and more.
With our men’s line launched in 2020, we’re shaking up the $50 billion hair care industry with products that continue to raise the bar for doing hair at home.
We live our values.
Here at our San Francisco headquarters and in every Hair Color Bar, we truly live our values-Love, Joy, Courage, Responsibility, and Trust.
Our values inform everything we do, from how we treat our clients to how we treat every member of our fast-growing team.
Our founder & CEO, Amy Errett, has fostered a one-of-a-kind culture based on transparency, accountability, and fun; where diversity and inclusion are of utmost importance and every team member feels supported to succeed.
We are hair color that breaks the rules.
Our commitment to the ultimate client experience, paired with our dedication to product innovation and the latest beauty technology, has attracted a devoted, consistently-growing base of fans, converts, and color evangelists.
We love what we do-and it shows.
Join us in our mission to live life colorfully and make personal care more personal.
Information for Recruiters:
Madison Reed only accepts resumes directly from candidates.
Madison Reed does not accept unsolicited resumes from staffing vendors, including recruitment agencies and/or search firms, and does not pay fees to any such vendors for any unsolicited resumes.
Madison Reed.
is an equal opportunity employer.
We are committed to recruiting, training, compensating and promoting our employees regardless of race, color, religion, sex, disability, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender or any other protected classes as required by applicable law that might make us unique or different.
As a company, we are dedicated to reflecting the diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion found in the communities we serve.
Inclusion is at the heart of what we do, from the way we craft our job descriptions, to the values we espouse daily.
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.