Senior Demand Planner

HOURGLASS COSMETICS Senior Demand Planner(Hybrid Role)

Connected by creativity and driven by purpose. Hourglass Cosmetics is a vegan and cruelty-free beauty brand redefining luxury cosmetics with high-performance products innovative formulas and award-winning franchises. Recognized by Forbes Fast Company and Time Magazine as one of the most inventive beauty companies Hourglass leads the industry with its breakthrough products and its commitment to animal welfare. Founded in 2004 Hourglass is globally available in 32 markets and over 4600 doors including Sephora Ulta Neiman Marcus Selfridges Space NK and more. Hourglass became part of the Unilever Prestige division in 2017. Discover more about the Hourglass brand story and mission on our website .

The Senior Demand Planneris responsible forowning end-to-end demand forecasting for an assigned region acting as the primary forecast lead and cross-functional partner across commercial operations and supply chain teams. This person serves as a link between the sales finance and supply chain functions to ensure alignment between plans and will work to create and achieve consensus for forecasts through collaborative cross-functional planning processes.

WHAT YOU DO

• Own demand planning for an assigned region supporting the wider team including:
• Create and manage top-down and bottom-up finished goods wholesale and retail forecasts
• Lead regional forecast reviews with international and domestic commercial teams
• Lead forecasting process for HOURGLASS new product development sampling and gratis
• Own forecast accuracy metrics analyzing variances and driving continuous improvement to minimize forecast error
• Contribute to the monthly S&OP process aligning demand plans with supply and finance
• Support team members in training and development
• Compile monthly SKU-level global forecasts by retailer and region including:
• Work alongside local market teams to analyze retailer and product performance trends and variances to forecast
• Proactively partner with operations and supply chain teams toidentifyand close inventory gaps and mitigate overstock risk
• Consolidateand analyze data from various sources across retail sales wholesale and operational data
• Identifyand initiate action in response to trends/issues
• Technology including:
  • Serve as subject matter expert for Oracle Planning Cloud Demand Planning Tool
  • Partner with Unilever Prestige IT and external partners on Planning Tool upgrades and maintenance
  • Develop and implement processes to drive continuous improvement in demand planning
• Perform analysis and reporting including:
  • Lead new product forecast creation and analysis for assigned region
  • Preparemaintainand publish reporting tomonitorand assess performance
  • Analyze and interpret sales results to drive future demand forecasting
  • Produce and analyze ad-hoc and/or ongoing reporting as needed
• Coordinate track and communicate both allocations and gratis requests to support inventory for newness events and promotions

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelors degree in business economics finance or related field
• Minimum 5 years of experience in demand planning or merchandise planning retail or CPG experience preferred
• Strong Excel and analytical skillsrequired;PowerBIand Oracle Planning Cloud experience preferred
• Strongtrack recordof cross-functional influence and stakeholder alignment
• Thrive on solving problems and implementing creative solutions
• Must be highly organized and have strong attention to detail
• Passion for product specifically cosmetics and skincare
• Creativepositiveand high-energyindividualwith an ability to execute
• Must be able to work from Corporate Office at least 60% of the time

The expected base salary range for this position is 90000 to $100000 per year. The exact base salary is determined by various factors including experience skills education geographic location and budget.

This position is also eligible for participation in the company discretionary bonus plan based on personal performance and company results.

In addition to base salary Hourglass Cosmetics offers a competitive benefits package to eligible employees including medical insurance dental insurance vision insurance life insurance accident insurance critical illness insurance disability insurance retirement savings plans and company match paid family leave education-related programs paid holidays discretionary vacation time and more.

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