Demand Planning Manager

The Demand Planning Manager will be responsible for driving the demand planning function for Walmart and potentially other customers. You must understand the customer forecast and transform it into a demand plan to feed into our supply planning process. You will be responsible for analyzing product performance at our customers including shipment data, POS, inventory, and promotional activity to develop customer specific forecasts and contribute to the team successfully meeting customer fill rates and in stock targets as well as internal WOS and turn goals.

Responsibilities:

• Create overall Demand Planning strategy for the category and customer accounts, set annual objectives, and develop metrics and KPIs to support functional and company goals.
• Utilize point of sale data, customer inventory, promotional calendar, and strong analytics to develop item level forecasting and replenishment plans.
• Lead consensus meetings with sales and planning teams within the company.
• Lead special projects for continuous improvement on behalf of the Demand Planning team.
• Drive IT improvements and needed automation for the Demand Planning team.
• Drive sustained excellence in performance in all critical areas of customer scorecard (customer fill rate, in stock, inventory, on time ship) through accurate forecasting and development and execution of item/category specific strategies.
• Drive periodic sku rationalization efforts with planning, sales and design to ensure discipline for needed SKU maintenance.
• Meet regularly with sales and inventory planning teams to review forecast performance and collaborate on upcoming promotions or changes in business needs.
• Support new product launch activity through the development of needed forecasts for initial inventory as well as forecast scenarios for replenishment.
• Perform ad-hoc analysis as needed including long range planning to help achieve corporate goals.
• Problem solve and escalate forecast issues.

Qualifications:

• BA or BS
• 5+ years of experience in demand planning and forecasting
• Strong quantitative background (supply chain planning, sales planning, consulting, finance, etc)
• Advanced Excel skills (Index Match, vlookup, sumif)
• SAP and IPB a plus
• Ability to take ownership of initiatives and work proactively and to accomplish tasks/projects on tight timelines
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment

Annual starting salary is $120,000.

The disclosed salary range is commensurate with experience and does not reflect the total compensation package. Our associates have access to other valuable benefits that our Human Resources team is happy to share with candidates during the interview process.