Sr. Demand Planner

Edgewell is a global team of over 6,000 visionaries, doers, and makers. Our portfolio of over 25 brands touches lives in more than 50 countries by making useful things joyful. Together, we reimagine good mornings and endless summers, strive for more sustainable ways to beautify and bond, and do it all with confidence and determination.

About the role

The Sr. Demand Planner is responsible for the total US forecast within their respective customers, focusing on sales and marketing forecast assumptions. This role builds relationships with sales and marketing partners to collaborate and align on marketing and commercial intelligence, applying promotional, distribution, cannibalization, and competitive forecast impacts to the Demand Consensus forecast. The individual gathers key input from cross-functional partners and challenges assumptions to drive improved forecast accuracy. The Sr. Demand Planner represents demand planning and promotes its best practices and strategy with key business stakeholders, supporting the Manager in preparation and leadership of all demand meetings to support NA S&OP and subsequently the Global S&OP. This role serves as the lead and is accountable for Demand Planning initiatives and training related to promotional forecasting functions and the improvement of the S&OP process. This is a hybrid position and can be based out of Shelton, St. Louis, or remote.

Responsibilities

• Commercial / Marketing Forecasting
  • Own the process to manage and review Sales and Marketing forecast inputs and projections to develop the monthly forecast.
  • Collaborate on input from marketing regarding consumption trends, seasonality, and competitive activity for forecast impact assumptions.
  • Collaborate on input from sales regarding promotional forecasts on finish goods and displays, distribution gains and losses, POG changes, and new product launches.
  • Develop and manage event-based data impacting the forecast, including historical data, new product projections, promotion lifts, specific customer/channel trends, etc.
  • Report forecast accuracy and root cause on promotional forecasts and new product introductions, driving actions for improvement to hit accuracy targets.
• Collaboration with Base Forecaster
  • Own entry of commercial intelligence into jda Demand / Manugistics and collaborate with the Base Forecasting team on impacts to the statistical forecast.
  • Focus on forecast detail for the fiscal year; apply strategic assumptions in 12 months beyond the fiscal year to align with company strategy.
  • Support the Base Forecasting team in the analysis of forecasts and forecast error reports to improve forecast accuracy, bias, out-of-stocks, SLOBs, and inventory issues.
  • Collaborate with the Base Forecasting team on historical impacts, new product setup and forecast, cannibalization assumptions, competitive activity and forecast impact, promo analysis, distribution changes, like item assignments, risks and opportunities, and product allocation in case of capacity constraints.
• Collaboration with Stakeholders
  • Serve as the single contact between Sales, Marketing, and Fulfillment.
  • Participate in all appropriate brand and commercial team meetings, serving as the key liaison for assigned brands between Sales/Marketing and Fulfillment.
  • Validate, challenge, and align on Sales and Marketing assumptions.
  • Support customer service by providing demand information proactively to ensure delivery to customers.
  • Collaborate with Sales and Marketing on SLOBs inventory goals and liquidation of inventory.
  • Focus and report on forecast gaps to Plan, Risks and Ops to Plan, key drivers, and gap-closing actions.
• CoE / S&OP
  • Own and lead the Demand Consensus meeting (S&OP), including deck preparation, key drivers for changes through appropriate waterfalls, gaps to plan, risks and ops, action items, and demand group alignment.
  • Ensure consensus with Sales and Marketing and sign-off of the demand forecast as output of the Demand Consensus meeting, elevating to the Regional S&OP meeting for VP sign-off.
  • Support Demand CoE roadmap projects for forecast improvement, delivering required strategic improvements and maintaining aligned demand processes.
  • Lead Demand Planning projects related to promotional and event forecasting and S&OP maturity.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in Demand Planning or Forecasting.
• BA/BS required (Supply Chain, Engineering, Mathematics, Business).
• Technical aptitude and experience with forecasting and data software (e.g., jda Demand/Manugistics, SAP, PowerBI, Syndicated data/Nielsen).
• CPG experience a plus.

Skills

• Business Acumen, Strategic Thinking, Influencing Others, Building Relationships.
• Intermediate to advanced skills in Excel and PowerPoint (Microsoft Office).

Preferred Qualifications

• MBA or MS a plus.
• Professional Certifications a plus (APICS, IBF, SCOR, etc.).

Pay

The salary range for this position is $84,000–$126,000. Compensation varies based on role scope, level of experience, relevant skills, education and credentials, external and internal benchmarks for equivalent roles and experience, business sector, and geographic location. In addition to base salary, the total rewards package may include, for eligible roles, bonus and long-term incentives.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• 401(k).
• Life, accident, and disability insurance.
• Wellness programs.