Demand Planning Manager

Revolution Beauty Ltd; London; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking beauty company as a Demand Planning Manager, where you'll lead a talented team to shape demand forecasts and drive strategic insights. In this role, you'll collaborate across functions to enhance supply chain initiatives and ensure alignment with business goals. Your expertise in demand forecasting and inventory management will empower you to influence key stakeholders and lead continuous improvement efforts. With a commitment to inclusivity and autonomy, this innovative firm offers a vibrant environment where your contributions can make a real difference in the beauty industry. If you're passionate about planning and leadership, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in planning, demand forecasting, and inventory management.
• Strong problem-solving, analytical, and mathematical skills required.
• Proven ability to lead a team and influence stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Manage a team of demand planners to execute an 18-month demand forecast.
• Develop and maintain forecasting KPIs and metrics for improvement.
• Provide ongoing analysis and feedback to sales and finance teams.

Skills

Demand Forecasting

Inventory Management

Financial Planning

Analytical Skills

Team Leadership

Communication Skills

MS Excel

ERP Systems (Netsuite)

Demandcaster

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Business or related field

Tools

Demandcaster

ERP Systems (Netsuite)

MS Excel

Job description

Revolution Beauty are looking for a Demand Planning Manager to join our team. The Demand Planning Manager will lead a team of Demand Planners responsible for managing the monthly demand forecast plan on a 12-18 month planning horizon, at the SKU/location level. Providing analyses in the process that focus on customer level variances to budgets, risk assessment, opportunity identification, and provide specific guidance to critical stakeholders.

This individual will work proactively with sales teams, customers, global operations, and logistics to understand business requirements and identify opportunities. Additionally, this person will identify challenges within the forecast and effectively collaborate to resolve. Working cross-functionally with both internal and external partners to facilitate the development and implementation of organisational supply chain initiatives.

What you'll do:

1. Manage a team of 3 demand planners to execute an 18 month SKU/location level demand forecast, in cross-functional partnership with sales, finance, and supply planning.
2. Support the development and implementation of the S&OP process alongside the Head of Supply.
3. Reconcile demand plan to sales budget via monthly S&OP process.
4. Challenge assumptions when significant deviations occur within the forecast, and escalate as needed to drive resolution.
5. Lead and develop a team of demand planners, supporting their day-to-day activities as well as coaching on demand planning best practices and fostering a collaborative and high performance team culture.
6. Develop and continuously improve forecasting methodology, using advanced technical skills, that incorporates all available data, systems, and KPIs, and aligns with business outlook.
7. Develop and maintain forecasting KPIs, metrics, and reporting, using them to drive tangible improvement in forecast and material supply.
8. Provide ongoing analysis and feedback to the sales and finance teams based on subject matter expertise in demand forecasting, inventory management, business process, etc.
9. Determine best methods to improve forecast accuracy and adjust forecast models as necessary to improve forecast accuracy.
10. Analyse forecast bias to identify and understand variables and root causes impacting forecast, and adjust appropriately; works closely with stakeholders to proactively adjust forecast to accommodate external information.
11. Issue resolution/escalation: Product Line and Key item management and reporting, including root cause identification.
12. Drive insights and provide recommendations based on statistical analyses/reporting related to current trends by region, category, and/or customer to help drive success achievement of financial goals.
13. Guide New Product forecasting efforts, working cross-functionally with Commercial Planning, Sales and Supply alongside the demand planners to provide pipefill forecasts at customer level.
14. Insert self into the business, providing other analysis related to driving business goals (e.g. hindsights, ad-hoc, etc.).

What you'll have:

1. Significant experience in: planning, demand forecasting; inventory management, allocation or replenishment; financial planning or financial analysis.
2. Thinks strategically; strong problem-solving and analytical skills; strong mathematical and forecasting skills.
3. Has experience of and feels confident in leading a team and can clearly delegate tasks.
4. Strong communication and presentation skills: concisely presents complex information/recommendations in terms meaningful to various audiences.
5. Intermediate level working knowledge of Demandcaster or similar planning platform.
6. Advanced MS Excel skills required.
7. Intermediate level working knowledge of ERP systems, preferably Netsuite.
8. Builds collaborative partnerships cross-functionally.
9. Ability to influence key stakeholders.
10. Proven ability to participate, support and provide appropriate analysis for internal and external executive discussions to drive continuous improvement in business results and processes.

Our purpose is to create incredible quality, socially driven, cruelty-free and vegan AFFORDABLE BEAUTY that every person can enjoy. We feel exactly the same about working for us, there should be something for everyone and we want to create an environment that everyone enjoys and feels empowered in. Our roles offer a lot of autonomy and opportunity – to deliver, to grow and to collaborate. Inclusivity is at the heart of what we do, everyone has the chance to make a difference, and what we do, we do together.