Demand Planning Analyst

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We are BUILT FOR THE WILD.About the Role The Demand Planning Analyst will be a part of the Americas demand planning team, responsible for building a best-in-class demand planning function necessary to accelerate YETI’s high growth business. This individual will have significant experience with demand planning, necessary excel skills to manipulate large and disparate data sets, and experience navigating from a manual excel based planning processes to a more stable system-based process (SAP IBP).

This individual will work cross-functionally to understand the needs of the business as well as create and maintain a forecast that aligns with YETI’s financial goals, while also helping shape the inventory and execution strategy to best balance supply and demand. Ideal candidates will have experience with highly seasonal business models as well as experience with constrained inventory management.

What You'll DoUtilize a variety of analytical and statistical forecasting methods to create accurate demand plans

Identify key demand signal trends, provide business insight, and coordinate recommendations/actions

Identify and understand critical risks and opportunities and the impact on planned demand

Analyze historical performance and recent trends to provide assortment recommendations to accounts for new product launches and seasonal colors

Responsible for communicating to all internal and external stakeholders in the demand planning process including supply planning, allocation, merchandising, finance, product development, and many other stakeholder teams

Provide input and help develop demand strategies on existing items, new products, and product phase-outs Participate in the implementation of a new SAP IBP planning system to optimize planning accuracy and master data translations across teams

Analyze and track weekly sell thru and inventory data to understand trends and opportunities

What You Bring Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Analytics, or related field preferred

Greater than 5 years of experience in Planning, Buying, Sales Operations, or Finance roles with experience planning and forecasting

Experience working in a consumer goods industry with an expansive product portfolio

Highly proficient in Microsoft Excel (vlookups, sumifs, index/match, pivot tables, etc.) and Power Point Familiarity  with SQL, Python, Tableau preferred not required

Experience navigating from manual excel based planning processes to ERP solutions preferred

Attention to detail, strong business acumen, love digging into data and finding drivers to demand

Combine curiosity with critical thinking and good judgment, and like asking  why  to unravel a seemingly complex problem and get to the root cause

Self-starter and persistent with strong analytical and organizational skills

Is known for developing and delivering results on a timely basis

Able to work in an ambiguous, fast-growing team-first environment

Experience helping teams adopt new planning tools, processes, or ways of working with a change management mindset

Comfort identifying data issues, partnering with upstream teams, and improving data reliability over time Demonstrated interest in reducing manual work through templates, tooling, or lightweight automation

Excellent verbal and written communications skills

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