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Demand Planning Analyst, Apparel Job in Seattle, VT
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Full-time | Demand Planning
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Who We Are:
At Brooks, we believe a run can change a day, a life, the world. Everyone who works here is a key part of our obsession to make the best running gear on the planet. We want our business — which also happens to be our passion — to be a place where everyone feels welcome and comfortable being themselves. Our company culture defines us, bonds us together, and drives our success. We live this culture daily through our brand values: Runner First, Word is Bond, Champion Heart, There is no “I” in Run, and Keep Moving. This means we always solve for the runner, do what we say we will, give it our all, are generous with our humanity, and find a way to keep moving every day, because joy is kinetic.
Are you ready to help create something extraordinary?
Your Job:
As a Demand Planning Analyst, you play a crucial role in ensuring that we have the right product at the right time to meet our customers’ needs and our business goals. You blend historical sales trends and patterns with insights from our Product and Sales teams to develop SKU level plans that reflect larger company objectives. You have a deep understanding of the end-to-end planning process and are a key partner in ensuring a smooth flow of information from consumer and retailer feedback to product planning and finally to demand planning implementation.
Organized and detail oriented, you are responsible for cleaning and connecting our sales and product data into manageable datasets that support our sales and demand modeling. You constantly strive to improve and streamline the flow of information and automate repetitive and unnecessary tasks.
You have a thorough understanding of the retailer mindset and are charged with collaborating with Sales and Product partners to identify patterns in the market and bring channel and product level insights to light. Visual and communicative, you are adept and comfortable in analysis and dashboard building in both Excel and Tableau. You have a knack for identifying trends and patterns in the data and are comfortable challenging assumptions. You thrive on collaboration and are a natural problem solver.
Responsibilities:
! Product Demand Planning
! Act as a key contributor in the development of demand planning best practices to identify, standardize and automate key planning inputs.
! Maintain and improve forecasting models and methodology by reviewing historical sales trends, researching demand drivers, and developing forecast models.
! Assist Retail Sales Analysts as needed in channel specific planning tasks from the lens of historical forecast accuracy and bias trends.
! Lead cross-functional research activities to reconcile significant variances and refine the forecast model to reflect updated assumptions.
! Demand Plan Data Management and Support
! Support monthly demand planning process through forecast input aggregation and summarization.
! Manage and maintain product line list attributes that support planning development.
! Collaborate with Sales, Product and Marketing as needed to gather cross-functional data and aggregate into usable data sets.
! Act as a subject matter expert for Brooks data reporting (EDW and Tableau based reports) with proficiency in reporting against forecast, invoice, orders, and sell-through data.
! Perform forecast data validation as needed and problem solve issues.
! Ad hoc analyses, reporting and dashboard creation
! Own forecast and demand planning communication. Create dashboards to share weekly, monthly and quarterly forecast consumption, accuracy and other trends from the channel/product category level down to customer and SKU.
! Perform ongoing analytic projects in support of brand strategies and business operations optimization including quantitative research, modeling, analysis and communication as needed. Topics will include, but not limited to: long term demand forecast, short term replenishment, lost sale opportunities and ROI analysis.
! Other projects and responsibilities as required.
Qualifications:
! Bachelor’s Degree in Business or related discipline
! 3+ years of experience in a retail sales analysis/planning related field
! Tableau proficiency: dashboard design and creation, data cleaning with Tableau Prep
! Strong computer skills, including proven mastery of Microsoft office suite
! Excellent problem-solving skills and a resourceful professional style
! Well-developed quantitative skills with an aptitude for report-building, data mining, and interpretation
! Displays strong initiative with a curiosity for learning
! Innovative mindset and a tendency to challenge the norm
! Excellent verbal and written communication skills
! Ability to work cross-functionally, demonstrating strong interpersonal and collaborative skills
! Demonstrates a passion for the running enthusiast and for leading an active lifestyle
! Embraces and lives the Brooks values!
At Brooks, we celebrate diversity & equity. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment, and encourage people of all backgrounds, perspectives, experiences, and skills to apply. Brooks is proud to be an equal employment opportunity employer. All employment decisions are made without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, the presence of a sensory, physical or mental disability, medical condition, military status, marital status, pregnancy or child birth, sexual orientation, age, genetic information, status as a victim of domestic violence, sexual assault or stalking, political ideology, or any other non-merit based factors.
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At Brooks, we believe a run can change a day, a life, the world. Everyone who works here is a key part of our obsession to make the best running gear on the planet. We want our business — which also happens to be our passion — to be a place where everyone feels welcome and comfortable being themselves. Our company culture defines us, bonds us together, and drives our success. We live this culture daily through our brand values: Runner First, Word is Bond, Champion Heart, There is no “I” in Run, and Keep Moving. This means we always solve for the runner, do what we say we will, give it our all, are generous with our humanity, and find a way to keep moving every day, because joy is kinetic.
Are you ready to help create something extraordinary?
Your Job:
As a Demand Planning Analyst, you play a crucial role in ensuring that we have the right product at the right time to meet our customers’ needs and our business goals. You blend historical sales trends and patterns with insights from our Product and Sales teams to develop SKU level plans that reflect larger company objectives. You have a deep understanding of the end-to-end planning process and are a key partner in ensuring a smooth flow of information from consumer and retailer feedback to product planning and finally to demand planning implementation.
Organized and detail oriented, you are responsible for cleaning and connecting our sales and product data into manageable datasets that support our sales and demand modeling. You constantly strive to improve and streamline the flow of information and automate repetitive and unnecessary tasks.
You have a thorough understanding of the retailer mindset and are charged with collaborating with Sales and Product partners to identify patterns in the market and bring channel and product level insights to light. Visual and communicative, you are adept and comfortable in analysis and dashboard building in both Excel and Tableau. You have a knack for identifying trends and patterns in the data and are comfortable challenging assumptions. You thrive on collaboration and are a natural problem solver.
Responsibilities:
! Product Demand Planning
! Act as a key contributor in the development of demand planning best practices to identify, standardize and automate key planning inputs.
! Maintain and improve forecasting models and methodology by reviewing historical sales trends, researching demand drivers, and developing forecast models.
! Assist Retail Sales Analysts as needed in channel specific planning tasks from the lens of historical forecast accuracy and bias trends.
! Lead cross-functional research activities to reconcile significant variances and refine the forecast model to reflect updated assumptions.
! Demand Plan Data Management and Support
! Support monthly demand planning process through forecast input aggregation and summarization.
! Manage and maintain product line list attributes that support planning development.
! Collaborate with Sales, Product and Marketing as needed to gather cross-functional data and aggregate into usable data sets.
! Act as a subject matter expert for Brooks data reporting (EDW and Tableau based reports) with proficiency in reporting against forecast, invoice, orders, and sell-through data.
! Perform forecast data validation as needed and problem solve issues.
! Ad hoc analyses, reporting and dashboard creation
! Own forecast and demand planning communication. Create dashboards to share weekly, monthly and quarterly forecast consumption, accuracy and other trends from the channel/product category level down to customer and SKU.
! Perform ongoing analytic projects in support of brand strategies and business operations optimization including quantitative research, modeling, analysis and communication as needed. Topics will include, but not limited to: long term demand forecast, short term replenishment, lost sale opportunities and ROI analysis.
! Other projects and responsibilities as required.
Qualifications:
! Bachelor’s Degree in Business or related discipline
! 3+ years of experience in a retail sales analysis/planning related field
! Tableau proficiency: dashboard design and creation, data cleaning with Tableau Prep
! Strong computer skills, including proven mastery of Microsoft office suite
! Excellent problem-solving skills and a resourceful professional style
! Well-developed quantitative skills with an aptitude for report-building, data mining, and interpretation
! Displays strong initiative with a curiosity for learning
! Innovative mindset and a tendency to challenge the norm
! Excellent verbal and written communication skills
! Ability to work cross-functionally, demonstrating strong interpersonal and collaborative skills
! Demonstrates a passion for the running enthusiast and for leading an active lifestyle
! Embraces and lives the Brooks values!
At Brooks, we celebrate diversity & equity. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment, and encourage people of all backgrounds, perspectives, experiences, and skills to apply. Brooks is proud to be an equal employment opportunity employer. All employment decisions are made without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, the presence of a sensory, physical or mental disability, medical condition, military status, marital status, pregnancy or child birth, sexual orientation, age, genetic information, status as a victim of domestic violence, sexual assault or stalking, political ideology, or any other non-merit based factors.
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