Demand and Supply Planning Team Leader

Job Description

Mission:
The mission of a Lovepop Demand & Supply Planning Team Leader is to ensure our company’s operations are timely, efficient and cost effective. You will assist all demand & supply duties including demand forecast, inventory management, supply planning.
Ideal candidate for this role is passionate about data analysis and relentless in searching for insights that will serve to optimize inventory, forecast accuracy and minimize transportation costs.
This is a highly integrated position, interfacing with virtually every department internally.
This position reports to Senior Demand & Supply Planning Team Leader.
Objective measures of success:
● Manage the demand and inventory planning
● Design and generate weekly and monthly statistical forecast reports.
● Continuously improve forecasting techniques, method, and approach.
● Relating and measuring the impact of forecast accuracy.
● Evolving and maintaining documentation and standard operating procedures for demand planning processes and systems.
● Conduct current and future forecasting analysis, ensuring forecasting processes and methods are followed.
● Assemble and analyze all data pertinent to creating the sales forecast (historical sales, market trends, seasonality and inventory levels.
● Make recommended adjustments to forecast and inventory targets based on changes in demand and market trends.
● Lead forecast and inventory planning meetings with Product Managers, reviewing recommended sales forecasts and inventory goals
● Prepare, report, and communicate forecast and inventory measurements to management (forecast accuracy, inventory plan vs. targets).
● Monitor SKU levels and recommend SKU rationalization initiatives in the future
● Placing replenishment orders.