Senior Demand Planner

HOURGLASS COSMETICS — Senior Demand Planner (Hybrid Role)

Connected by creativity and driven by purpose. Hourglass Cosmetics is a vegan and cruelty-free beauty brand, redefining luxury cosmetics with high-performance products, innovative formulas, and award-winning franchises. Recognized by Forbes, Fast Company and Time Magazine as one of the most inventive beauty companies, Hourglass leads the industry with its breakthrough products and its commitment to animal welfare. Founded in 2004, Hourglass is globally available in 32 markets and over 4,600 doors including Sephora, Ulta, Neiman Marcus, Selfridges, Space NK and more. Hourglass became part of the Unilever Prestige division in 2017. Discover more about the Hourglass brand story and mission on our website hourglasscosmetics.com.

The Senior Demand Planner is responsible for owning end-to-end demand forecasting for an assigned region, acting as the primary forecast lead and cross-functional partner across commercial, operations, and supply chain teams. This person serves as a link between the sales, finance, and supply chain functions to ensure alignment between plans and will work to create and achieve consensus for forecasts through collaborative cross-functional planning processes.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

Own demand planning for an assigned region, supporting the wider team including:

Create and manage top-down and bottom-up finished goods wholesale and retail forecasts

Lead regional forecast reviews with international and domestic commercial teams

Lead forecasting process for HOURGLASS’ new product development, sampling, and gratis

Own forecast accuracy metrics, analyzing variances and driving continuous improvement to minimize forecast error

Contribute to the monthly S&OP process, aligning demand plans with supply and finance

Support team members in training and development

Compile monthly SKU-level global forecasts by retailer and region including:

Work alongside local market teams to analyze retailer and product performance trends and variances to forecast

Proactively partner with operations and supply chain teams to identify and close inventory gaps and mitigate overstock risk

Consolidate and analyze data from various sources across retail sales, wholesale, and operational data

Identify and initiate action in response to trends/issues

Technology including:

Serve as subject matter expert for Oracle Planning Cloud Demand Planning Tool

Partner with Unilever Prestige IT and external partners on Planning Tool upgrades and maintenance

Develop and implement processes to drive continuous improvement in demand planning

Perform analysis and reporting including:

Lead new product forecast creation and analysis for assigned region

Prepare, maintain and publish reporting to monitor and assess performance

Analyze and interpret sales results to drive future demand forecasting

Produce and analyze ad-hoc and/or ongoing reporting as needed

Coordinate, track, and communicate both allocations and gratis requests to support inventory for newness, events, and promotions

QUALIFICATIONS

Bachelor’s degree in business, economics, finance, or related field

Minimum 5 years of experience in demand planning or merchandise planning, retail or CPG experience preferred

Strong Excel and analytical skills required; PowerBI and Oracle Planning Cloud experience preferred

Strong track record of cross-functional influence and stakeholder alignment

Thrive on solving problems and implementing creative solutions

Must be highly organized and have strong attention to detail

Passion for product, specifically cosmetics and skincare

Creative, positive and high-energy individual with an ability to execute

Must be able to work from Corporate Office at least 60% of the time

The expected base salary range for this position is 90,000 to $100,000 per year. The exact base salary is determined by various factors including experience, skills, education, geographic location, and budget.

This position is also eligible for participation in the company discretionary bonus plan, based on personal performance and company results.

In addition to base salary, Hourglass Cosmetics offers a competitive benefits package to eligible employees, including medical insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, life insurance, accident insurance, critical illness insurance, disability insurance, retirement savings plans and company match, paid family leave, education-related programs, paid holidays, discretionary vacation time, and more.

Hourglass is an organization committed to diversity and inclusion to drive its business results and to create a better future every day for its diverse employees, global consumers, partners and communities. If you are an individual with a disability and need accommodation in order to apply for a job listing, please contact us at 310-392-7799 or [email protected] .

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