Forecast and Demand Planning Manager

SharkNinja; Paris; Hybrid; EUR 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading appliance manufacturer is seeking a Sales Operations Manager to drive revenue and margin for retail accounts. This mid-senior level position requires 5+ years of demand planning experience, fluency in English and French, and strong analytical skills. The role offers a hybrid work model based in Paris, coordinating closely with customers and internal teams to optimize sales performance.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in demand planning or supply chain management within consumer products.
• Ability to analyze complex data sets for insights.
• Demonstrated strong analytical skills and attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Drive revenue and margin for assigned retail accounts.
• Conduct briefings with customers’ replenishment teams.
• Report on sales performance and promotional expectations.

Skills

Fluent English

Fluent French

Demand planning experience

Supply chain management

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Microsoft Suite proficiency

Job description

The position is based in Paris / hybrid 3 days a week in office.

The Sales Operations Manager is the primary resource for operational functions associated with driving revenue and margin for assigned retail accounts. Key functions will include demand planning, inventory management, purchase order execution, POS & trend analysis, trade spend management and daily monitoring of overall business trends and operational performance. The Sales Operations Manager plays an important role monitoring real time business issues, interpreting data and suggesting immediate action plans to address issues or take advantage of opportunities. The role will work with Shark/Ninja internal cross functional resources aligned to the Amazon account, ensuring business issues are communicated and acted upon in a timely manner as well as with direct account contacts.

Key Responsibilities

• Become a leading resource on customer specific needs and requirements while providing timely communication to both the Amazon account and company ensuring you meet the needs and requirements of both.
• Pull weekly business reporting documents identifying any call to action or highlights.
• Coordinate and track sales performance to promotional expectations with sales analyst and help formulate a future shipment plan based on the results.
• Work very closely with customer demand planning teams, sales director and sales analyst on all aspects of forecasting, inventory planning, orders, and supply chain management.
• Input the forecast in our tool SFO and update Data Governance new additions and updated price lists to SFO.
• Conduct weekly meetings with customers’ replenishment teams to review recent results and confirm changes affected positively and negatively to the sales.
• Coordinate customers’ domestic/import orders with supply chain both in planning and availability dates.
• Partner with the Amazon Account Manager team on trade spend management. Input confirmed promotional plans into forecasting system.
• Partner with extended Target team to coordinate and build customer presentations, monthly business reviews, weekly flash reports and monthly consensus deck.
• Quickly develop a working knowledge of the kitchen and floor care business from both a product and consumer basis for our product and our competitions.
• Provide monthly financial update and conduct a deep dive analysis into key operational/sales performance metrics.
• Ad Hoc Analysis – Ability to quickly process situations and determine what information/data is required to generate actionable insight.
• Innate curiosity and desire to find creative solutions.

Skills & Attributes

• Fluent English and French.
• 5+ years of experience in demand planning/supply chain management or business analytics/financial role within the consumer products industry, preferably with or at Amazon.
• Ability to draw insights across multiple complex data sets and incorporate into decision making.
• Ability to work in a collaborative team environment.
• Past operational or sales experience with large retailers, preferably Amazon.
• Must have demonstrated strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and advanced proficiency in the Microsoft suite of products.
• Strong communication, organization, project management and interpersonal skills.
• Must be able to set priorities and juggle several tasks within a fast-paced, deadline driven environment with a positive attitude.

Seniority Level

Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

• Sales, Strategy/Planning, and Supply Chain
• Industries: Appliances, Electrical, and Electronics Manufacturing