
Commercial Demand Planner Associate
Beauty Industry Group
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Los Angeles • California • United States
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Salary
💰 $75,000 - $85,000 per year
Tech Stack
About the role
- Develop, maintain, and continuously improve demand forecasts across multiple brands, incorporating historical data, seasonality, promotional activity, and market trends
- Partner with Commercial, eCommerce, Sales, Marketing, Finance, and Demand Planning teams to align forecasts with business objectives and growth initiatives
- Champion and advocate for Commercial teams with demand forecasting to support core/evergreen, healthy product mix, new product innovation, and activations within marketing calendars.
- Review and analyze promotional and product launch performance, adjusting forecasts and recommendations based on insights and evolving demand patterns
- Identify risks and opportunities related to inventory levels, proactively recommending actions to optimize stock, reduce excess, and minimize stockouts
- Support product lifecycle management through forecast updates tied to new launches, phase-outs, and replenishment strategies
- Ensure our demand forecasts with Supply Chain intersect with our demand net sales forecasts across sales channels and in sync with go to market calendars
- Advise and track areas to ensure optimal sell thru rates, buy ins, run down and sku productivity across all sales channels
- Monitor the competitive landscape, market trends, and consumer behavior to inform forward-looking demand assumptions
- Build and provide clear reporting and actionable insights to leadership to support strategic planning and decision-making
- Ability to leverage data to inform optimization, prioritization and turn insights into actionable deliverables
- Experience tracking scorecards for forecast accuracy, sku productivity, sell thru and improvements against excess and obsolete
Requirements
- 3-5 years of hands-on Commercial Planning & Forecasting experience.
- Excellent knowledge and experience with Netstock, NetSuite, Excel, and Tableau.
- Proactive self-starter who excels at uncovering data-driven insights and turning them into meaningful business impact.
- Ability to assess business impact of new innovations, core and evergreen, campaigns, and activations.
- Confident in working across multiple departments and managing multiple projects.
- Flexible and adaptable with the ability to work across time zones as needed.
- Strong interpersonal skills, active listening, and the ability to influence cross-functional teams.
Benefits
- Base pay of $75,000-85,000 with a 5% annual bonus eligibility
- 401(k) with company match - $ for $ up to 4% - immediately vested
- Vacation/Holiday Leave
- Great Medical/Dental/Vision Insurance
- Life and AD&D Insurance
- Opportunities for growth and advancement
- And so much more!
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
demand forecastingdata analysisinventory optimizationproduct lifecycle managementforecast accuracy trackingsku productivity assessmentpromotional performance analysismarket trend analysisdata-driven insightsreporting
Soft Skills
proactiveself-starterinterpersonal skillsactive listeninginfluencingflexibilityadaptabilityproject managementcollaborationcommunication