Demand Planner

Foundation RPO; United States; On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Foundation RPO is seeking a Demand Planner to own the monthly item-level forecast across geographies, wholesale accounts, and banners, integrating POS trends, seasonality, and promotions. You will collaborate with Sales, Marketing, NPD, and Ops to sharpen forecast accuracy and support smarter production planning.

The role requires 4-6 years in demand planning or related analytics, with strong Excel and AI-forecasting experience.

Qualifications

• 4-6 years in demand planning, commercial analytics, or S&OP in consumer goods with real wholesale and/or specialty retail channel experience.
• Deep expertise in building retail sell-in forecasts and understanding how sell-through, retailer inventory, and reorder patterns drive upstream demand.
• A track record of working effectively across Sales, Marketing, Product Development, and Operations and making those relationships productive.
• Strong analytical chops, including hands-on experience with AI-assisted forecasting tools and advanced Excel. POS data analysis and statistical modeling experience is a bonus.
• Excellent communicator. You can take a complex forecast story and make it land clearly for a commercial audience.
• Comfortable working across time zones and geographies.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain a monthly item-level forecast across geographies, key wholesale accounts, and retail banners, pulling in POS trends, seasonality, promotional calendars, ranging changes, and latest intel from account teams.
• Track retail inventory positions, weeks-of-supply, and sell-out velocity at account and door level to stay ahead and avoid stockouts.
• Partner with Sales to ensure sell-in timing reflects real retail demand.

Skills

Demand planning

Commercial analytics

S&OP

Cross-functional collaboration

Advanced Excel

Tools

Excel

AI forecasting tools

Job description

We're looking for a Demand Planner with one of our top beauty clients who wants to own something, not just maintain it. You'll take the lead on wholesale/retail and ecommerce demand planning across some of the most exciting brands in the beauty space, sitting at the intersection of Sales, Marketing, New Product Development, and Operations and making sure the forecast actually reflects the full picture of the business.

You'll work directly with Retail Sales, Growth and Marketing teams to build item-level sell-in forecasts by geography and channel, tracking POS trends, retailer inventory positions, and promotional activity to stay ahead of what the business needs. You'll build on our existing S&OP processes while actively looking for ways to sharpen forecast accuracy, reduce out-of-stocks, minimize excess inventory, and support smarter production planning.

This is a role for someone who's equally at home in a commercial conversation and deep in a spreadsheet. Someone with strong analytical chops (including hands-on experience with AI-assisted forecasting), genuine cross-functional instincts, and the commercial intuition to know when a number feels right and when it doesn't. We move fast, we're spread across geographies, and we're still building, which means the right person won't just do the job, they'll help define what great looks like here.

Who You Are

• You have commercial instinct. You look at a number and you have a feeling about it. Not just whether the model produced it correctly, but whether it makes sense given the brand, the account, the season and the market.


• You're a natural cross-functional collaborator who builds real trust with Sales, Marketing, NPD and Ops and you're not afraid to ask the hard question in the room when it needs to be asked.


• You're detail-obsessed but not detail-paralyzed. You can zoom out to the strategic picture and zoom back in to make sure the data is right.


• You thrive when things are moving fast and changing often. You don't wait for perfect conditions. You make good decisions with the information you have and adjust as you learn more.


• You're self-motivated and proactive, but you know when to loop people in and when to just handle it.


• You bring good energy. We work closely together and we want people who make the team better: sharper, more fun, and more capable.

What You'll Do

Own the Forecast

• Build and maintain a monthly item-level forecast across all geographies, key wholesale accounts, and retail banners, pulling in POS trends, seasonality, promotional calendars, ranging changes, and the latest intel from our account teams.


• Track retail inventory positions, weeks-of-supply, and sell-out velocity at the account and door level so we're always one step ahead. No one wants an empty shelf or a warehouse full of product that should be moving.


• Partner with the Sales team to make sure sell-in timing reflects real retail demand.

Be the New Launch Hype Person (With a Spreadsheet)

• Lead cross-functional planning for new product launches, working with New Product Development on timing, Marketing on campaign-driven demand, and Sales on retailer ranging commitments so when something new hits the market, we're ready.


• Own SKU transitions and range changes end-to-end, rallying Sales, Ops, and Product Dev around a plan that keeps retailers happy, minimizes write-off risk, and doesn't leave anyone scrambling.


• Partner With the Commercial Team Like You're on the Same Team (Because You Are)


• Embed yourself in the work of our Retail Account Managers and Growth Team pulling their insights in, build them into the forecast, and play it back to them in a way that makes them feel seen and sets us all up to align fast.


• Work with Marketing to make sure campaign calendars, launch windows, and media investments are actually reflected in the numbers, because promotional lifts don't plan themselves.


• Be the translator between what Sales is hearing from retailers and what Operations needs to plan supply. It's a superpower and we need someone who has it.


• Run ad-hoc scenario planning when the business needs it: new distribution, pricing moves, market curveballs, demand swings. You'll turn ambiguity into options and options into decisions.


• Bring a forward-looking demand POV to cross-functional conversations so we're not just reacting, we're anticipating.

Keep Operations Humming

• Deliver clean, well-documented forecast packages to our Operations Planning team for executive level demand review with clear summaries of what changed, why, and what it means for supply.


• Be the go-to liaison when inventory gets tight or stock piles up, helping triage wholesale account priorities and get the right people aligned to action quickly.


• Support our NetSuite demand planning integration and keep an eye out for process improvements and automation wins. If there's a smarter way to do something, we want to know about it.

What You Bring

• 4-6 years in demand planning, commercial analytics, or S&OP in consumer goods with real wholesale and/or specialty retail channel experience.


• Deep expertise in building retail sell-in forecasts and a genuine understanding of how sell-through, retailer inventory, and reorder patterns drive upstream demand.


• A track record of working effectively across Sales, Marketing, Product Development, and Operations and making those relationships actually productive, not just cordial.


• Strong analytical chops, including hands-on experience with AI-assisted forecasting tools and advanced Excel. POS data analysis and statistical modeling experience is a bonus.


• Excellent communicator. You can take a complex forecast story and make it land clearly for a commercial audience.


• Comfortable working across time zones and geographies.