Demand Planner

Position: Demand Planner 2
Kforce has a client located in Beaverton, OR recruiting for a Demand Planner 2.

Summary:

We are looking for a Senior Assortment Planner to establish clear end to end bottom's up assortment plans partnering with Merchandising, Sales and Business Planning to create a line grounded in profitability, productivity, and consumer centric offerings. The Demand Planner will be tasked with creating pre-season style level plans.

Duties:

* Leverage statistical forecasting, data science and new ways of working to develop plans and drive better decisions

* Develop seasonal plans and monthly forecasts inclusive of sales, margin and inventory at the style color level leveraging analytics, develop strategies to meet financial goals and own open to buy bottom's up forecasts to inform manufacturing decisions

* Partner with key stakeholders across Geo and Global to optimize business health throughout the entirety of the product life cycle inclusive of responsive offering

* Product forecasting and in season optimization by analyzing data, & providing actionable insights

* Report on forecast variance across key planning gates and deliver action plans as well as risks & opportunities
* Demonstrate experience in assortment planning and understanding of financial, product and inventory planning

* Influence others and craft compelling communication grounded in data

* Think critically and understand the potential of a style in the marketplace as well as quantify any gaps to financial plans from a bottoms up perspective

* Display problem solving and critical thinking skills by developing accurate plans that optimize trade-offs and outcomes

* Understand of consumer and marketplace trend

* Must have intermediate Excel skills