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Demand Planning Manager

PetSafe Brands is the world leader in pet products through our family of brands: Pet Safe Brand, Sport DOG Brand, Invisible Fence Brand, Kurgo and Premier Pet. We have an ambitious goal of touching over 21 million pets, people, and communities around the world each year. We serve a broad range of pet owners from providing the hunter the best gear for a successful hunt to accommodating the "Not-So-Crazy Cat Lady" with all the entertaining toys and effective solutions she could ever imagine. We do this by creating a culture of enthusiasm, resilience, adaptability, and teamwork every day in the office. We work hard to be our community's employer of choice as we all live our purpose: We exist to unleash freedom for pet parents by keeping their pets happy, healthy and safe.

This role is a unique opportunity for a dynamic and experienced professional to lead the Demand Planning process by developing and implementing scalable supply chain planning strategies to support business goals and objectives for a CPG company in the pet industry. This role is highly collaborative, and partners cross functionally to develop both a short term and long range demand plan.

Responsibilities:

• Strategic Demand Planning: Lead and inspire a demand planning team to ensure every day great execution and create a culture of innovation and continuous improvement by:
• Coaching and mentoring the demand planning team and developing talent within the team.
• Identifying future leaders and partnering with teammates to establish plans for growth
• Data-Driven Insights: Leverage data analytics to enhance supply chain efficiency and inform strategic decisions up/down the supply chain by:
• Developing and implementing demand planning and sales forecasting processes, data collection and reporting, tracking and reporting of KPI's.
• Setting and monitoring forecast accuracy targets for demand planning team.
• Analyzing demand data to identify trends, risks, and opportunities.
• Continuously improving forecasting accuracy through data-driven insights and process enhancements.
• Providing a root cause analysis to "actual" versus "targeted" forecasts and troubleshoot when they are not aligned.
• Operational Excellence: Oversee all aspects of the Demand Planning processes including S&OP, supply planning and inventory management processes by:
• Serving as Owner of the operational sales forecast/demand Plan.
• Partnering with key stakeholders to drive alignment between operational and financial forecasts.
• Lead S&OP meetings to ensure alignment between demand forecasts, supply plans, and financial plans.
• Providing insights and recommendations to improve the S&OP process and achieve business objectives.
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to address demand-supply imbalances and operational challenges.
• Driving continuous improvement initiatives to enhance efficiency and accuracy of the demand planning process.
• Communicating clearly with senior leadership on a regular basis regarding demand planning and execution trends, insights, and future risks to the business.
• Continuously refining the demand planning model to understand and reflect updated assumptions and new learnings.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in business, supply chain management, or a related field. 10+ years of experience in Supply Chain (with at least 3+ years in demand planning role)
• Strong analytical and communication skills.
• Tableau experience and knowledge is preferred.
• Functional knowledge and experience working with ERP systems. Oracle ASCP and Demantra modules is preferred.
• Experience and Knowledge of S&OP process and practices.
• Strong understanding of Global Supply Chain information and material flows
• Exceptional leadership, strategic thinking, and communication skills.
• Have a strong process orientation coupled with the ability to operate in a less structured environment when necessary.
• Ability to lead effectively and handle conflict in cross-functional integration role.
• Highly collaborative leadership style and excellent facilitation skills.
• Strong influence management skills and capable of working up and down the org chart.
• Strong analytical, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills.
• Execute within tight timeframes with superior attention to detail and accuracy.
• Sound strategic thinking to ensure all forecasts are rooted in data.
• Background in pet products, CPG, retail, D2C experience preferred.
• Willingness to manage multiple time-zones and adjust schedules to accommodate.

Relationships:

• Will report directly to VP of Supplier Management

Benefits:

Working for PetSafe Brands definitely has its benefits. We offer a collaborative and creative team-oriented work environment where we encourage you to take risks to learn and grow! We offer a competitive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, and 401K match. In addition we offer a rich wellness program which includes an onsite health clinic, workout facility and of course, we encourage you to bring your dog to work, which is our whole reason for what we do!

PetSafe Brands is dedicated to offering equal employment opportunity for all teammates and fostering a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. At PetSafe Brand, our teammates are our greatest strength. We strive to build a workforce as diverse as the customers we serve by hiring great people from a wide variety of backgrounds, life experiences, knowledge, self-expression and talent. We recruit and reward teammates based on capability and performance and together we are building a culture that welcomes all dimensions of an individual's identity including race, color, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, age, educational background, national origin or ancestry, religion, veteran status, or physical ability. We embrace these differences and the unique contributions each teammate brings not just because it is the right thing to do but because it makes our company stronger. While we are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace and a culture of belonging, we recognize that we still have more work to do and a lot more to learn.