Senior Manager of Demand Planning

Requisition Close Date: April 30, 2024

Glo Skin Beauty is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Demand Planning Specialist to join our team. In this role, you will lead the demand planning process, collaborate cross-functionally, and develop strategies to ensure product availability while minimizing inventory costs. If you are a strategic thinker with a proven track record of success in demand planning and forecasting, we invite you to apply and become an integral part of our innovative and forward-thinking organization. This role sits on the Operations Team and reports to our VP of Operations.

Essential Duties:

• Lead the strategic planning process.
• Coordinate working groups across the business when relevant(validation)
• Effectively frame complex strategic problems to drive collaborative and methodical resolution.
• Present key issues & opportunities to the leadership team to drive process improvement.
• Translate findings into insights to fuel strategic communication.
• Evolve the strategic planning process, using tools and systems; stay current on industry best practices and benchmarks.
• Develop global materials management strategies, and collaborate with managers on execution, enabling best-in-class working capital deployment across the business.
• Design, generate, and analyze planning and inventory reports.
• Develop KPI scorecards with the manager to improve operations and facilitate informed business decision-making.
• Direct and influence long-range planning and development of campaigns, to ensure the best use of organizational resources.
• Deliver actionable recommendations to leadership through data-driven analysis and visualization for executive decision-making.
• Proactively anticipate and work towards mitigating risks to project execution or stakeholder engagement.
• Excel and MS Office Expertise

Positively represent the Glo Skin Beauty brand: execute job duties with a friendly demeanor and cooperative attitude; demonstrate continuous personal development by being open and receptive to Warehouse Manager coaching and customer feedback; maintain good attendance; communicate clearly and in a professional manner; always adhere to safety rules and best practices.

Job qualifications:

• Experience managing demand planning for a CPG company
• Experience across diverse customer types and channels
• Excellent written communication skills, strong verbal communication skills
• Adept at problem solving, conflict resolution, and process improvement
• Ability to function independently, manage time and resources effectively, adapt to shifting priorities, and adjust behaviors to meet and exceed expectations
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in marketing, merchandising, supply chain, or a related area

Preferred experience:

• Prior experience working for a skincare/beauty brand or similar
• Experience using Adobe Creative suite, Microsoft Office suite, Trello, Slack, Google Suite preferred
• Experience working across different cultures, adapting communication and work style as required for a successful relationship

Working Conditions:

• Hybrid position: Wednesdays in-office required, plus 2 other in-office days (3 days total)
• Physical activities include sitting at a computer for long periods of time, using a telephone, using office equipment such as a copier, occasionally lifting small boxes of products or documents.
• Work may occur before/after normal business hours, especially to accommodate meetings with suppliers or customers in other time zones.
• Occasional travel by car or plane, including overnight stays, may be required.

Compensation & Benefits

The salary for this exempt role is $80,000- $90,000

• 401(k) match
• Subsidized health insurance benefits plans
• Company-provided computer
• Home office stipend
• Employee gratis (free) products $250 each quarter
• PTO Accrual: 4.75-7.75 hours earned per pay period, based on tenure
• Holidays: 10 Company Paid Holidays & 2 Floating Holidays
• Sick Leave: 2 hours earned per pay period, bank of 2 days to start, capped at 10 days
• Bereavement Leave: Up to 6 days

Glo Skin Beauty offers equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. Glo is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, Glo will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, reply to any email received from our system or call our main 800 number and request HR.