Director Demand Planning

MGA Entertainment; Minneapolis (MN); On-site; USD 120,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

MGA Entertainment, home to L.O.L. Surprise!, Bratz, Little Tikes, Rainbow High and Miniverse, seeks a Director of Demand Planning to own our largest Americas account: Target.

You will own the demand plan, inventory commitments, and MGA's credibility with Target's merchandising and replenishment teams, and represent MGA in Target's Top-to-Top meetings. This is a highly collaborative role, requiring leadership of the MGA side of the forecast, driving in-stock and revenue delivery, and partnering

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Business, Analytics, Economics, or related field.
• 8+ years in demand planning, supply chain, merchandise planning, or replenishment.
• Direct experience owning a collaborative/joint forecast with a major US mass retailer; Target experience strongly preferred.
• Track record owning an account at $150M+ in revenue with revenue delivery, in-stock, forecast accuracy, and inventory position.
• Strong grasp of retailer POS data and replenishment mechanics (sell-through, weeks of supply, in-stock).
• Advanced Excel; working fluency in Power BI or equivalent BI platform.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end demand plan for US-Target and Target.com across the MGA portfolio.
• Deliver the $221M Target revenue plan and manage monthly locks.
• Improve forecast accuracy at brand and item level; reduce variance.
• Manage collaborative forecast relationship with Target’s teams and improve in-stock performance to 88–90%.
• Lead MGA’s domestic safety-stock strategy and policy for Target.
• Oversee systems integration to improve daily forecast accuracy and data visibility.
• Provide dedicated analyst support and stand as single accountability across MGA Sales, Supply Chain, Finance and Brand.

Skills

Demand planning

Forecasting

Advanced Excel

Power BI

Logility

SAP

Education

Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Business, Analytics, Economics, or related field

Tools

Power BI

Excel

Logility

SAP

Job description

MGA Entertainment — home to L.O.L. Surprise!, Bratz, Little Tikes, Rainbow High and Miniverse — is hiring a Director of Demand Planning to own our fastest-growing, largest Americas account: Target.

Target has grown into a $221M FY2026 business for MGA, up from a $118M swing in two years, and growing 45% year over year — roughly double the pace of our next-largest account. That growth has outrun our operational readiness: on-shelf availability is sitting in the low 80s against our 90% standard, and we estimate $5M–$7M in recoverable annual retail sales sitting behind that gap alone. This role exists to close it — and to protect the revenue that's already on the books.

This is not a back-office forecasting seat. Target runs on a collaborative forecast, which means we negotiate the plan, not dictate it. You'll own MGA's side of that negotiation — the demand plan, the inventory commitments behind it, and MGA's credibility with Target's merchandising and replenishment teams — and represent MGA directly in Target's Operations Top-to-Top meetings.

What You'll Own

• The end-to-end demand plan for US-Target and Target.com, across the full MGA portfolio — preseason, in-season, and chase
• Delivery of the $221M Target revenue plan, against the annual number and every monthly lock
• Forecast accuracy at brand and item level — not just account total, where offsetting errors currently hide several million dollars of real variance
• The collaborative forecast relationship — building, defending, and reconciling the joint plan with Target's teams, and closing the gap between Target's 78–82% in-stock goal and MGA's 90% standard
• Target in-stock performance — driving it from the low 80s to a sustained 88–90%
• MGA's domestic safety-stock position for Target, including standing up a formal policy to replace today's item-by-item negotiation
• Systems integration work that unlocks daily accuracy — landing event codes for order-type tracking and integrating MGA's available-to-sell inventory into Target's Walk-In Purchasability data
• Dedicated analyst support for the account, and the single point of accountability across MGA Sales, Supply Chain, Finance and Brand

What Success Looks Like

Within a year: the Target revenue plan delivered, in-stock sustained at 88%+, a forecast Target consistently orders against, and Target's position as MGA's largest Americas account locked in with a demand plan that holds under pressure.

What You Bring

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Business, Analytics, Economics, or related field
• 8+ years in demand planning, supply chain, merchandise planning, or replenishment — including 3+ years leading a major national retail account
• Direct experience owning a collaborative/joint forecast with a major US mass retailer (Target, Walmart, Amazon, or equivalent); Target experience strongly preferred
• Track record owning an account at $150M+ in revenue, accountable for revenue delivery, in-stock, forecast accuracy, and inventory position
• Strong grasp of retailer POS data and replenishment mechanics — sell-through, weeks of supply, in-stock, initial sets vs. replenishment
• Advanced Excel; working fluency in Power BI or equivalent BI platform
• Based in, or willing to relocate to, the Minneapolis metro area — this role is on-site and not remote-eligible

Preferred: toy, consumer products, or other short-lifecycle/hit-driven categories; experience building planning process from scratch; familiarity with Logility, SAP, or comparable demand planning systems.