Director, Demand Planning - Corporate

Front Row; New York (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, and vision

PTO

Summer Fridays

Wellness and commuter benefits

Job summary

Front Row in New York City seeks an experienced Forecasting and Inventory Planner to drive SKU forecasts and purchase planning for a fast-paced ecommerce portfolio.

You will build weekly purchase orders, monitor trends, and collaborate across teams to minimize stockouts and excess inventory while supporting growth in a data-driven environment. This role is based at our SoHo HQ with hybrid travel to offices.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of forecasting, planning, and inventory management experience.
• Strong interest in Amazon and understanding of retail dynamics.
• Advanced knowledge of Sales & Operations Planning procedures.
• Strong attention to detail and advanced in excel.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Create and manage SKU intensive sales and purchase forecasts.
• React to current sales trends to meet inventory turn goals.
• Create weekly purchase orders with the goal to minimize out of stocks and prevent the risk of excess inventory.
• Monitor current performance throughout the month identifying changing trends and proactively adjust the forecast.
• Ability to build strong cross-functional relationships and thrive in a fast pace environment.

Skills

Forecasting

Inventory management

Cross-functional collaboration

Excel

Verbal & written communication

Tools

Excel

Job description

At Front Row, we partner with leading brands to accelerate their ecommerce growth. We leverage our capabilities and proprietary technology to design, market, distribute and accelerate brands on a global scale. We’re continually cultivating functional areas of expertise and retaining the highest caliber of talent - while sharing knowledge and data, creating efficiencies, and looking at every aspect of our client’s business from a 360 perspective. We work effectively to give every client the hands-on support, niche knowledge, and first-access they need to win in the world’s most competitive commerce markets and make each of our six capabilities the first to act on the next big things.

We live for the exchange of energy between brands and audiences, you should too, and we’ve made it our mission to expand every brand’s market share and heart share. Because we believe every transaction has the potential to be transformational.

We leverage data-driven insights from Catapult, our proprietary technology, and our deep understanding of marketplaces like Amazon, Walmart.com, TikTok Shop, to craft strategies unique to each brand we work with while protecting their pricing and channel strategies at every lifecycle stage and in any global market.

Intro

Our team works with clients and cross functionally to forecast sales and inventory needs for an exciting group of items and categories across all of the marketplace brands!

Description

• Create and manage SKU intensive sales and purchase forecasts
• React to current sales trends to meet inventory turn goals
• Create weekly purchase orders with the goal to minimize out of stocks and prevent the risk of excess inventory
• Monitor current performance throughout the month identifying changing trends and proactively adjust the forecast
• Ability to build strong cross-functional relationships and thrive in a fast pace environment

Requirements

• 5+ years of forecasting, planning, and inventory management experience
• Strong interest in Amazon and understanding of retail dynamics
• Advanced knowledge of Sales & Operations Planning procedures
• Strong attention to detail and advanced in excel
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision
• PTO
• Summer Fridays
• Wellness and commuter benefits
• Work with a fun, consultative team of experts
• Location - headquartered in SoHo, New York City with offices in San Diego, Hamburg and Bratislava

SALARY - $140,000 - $150,000