Deckers Brands

Sr. Director, Demand Planning

Deckers Brands

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇺🇸 United States • Arizona, California, Colorado, Massachusetts, New York, Oregon

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Salary

💰 $230,000 - $245,000 per year

Job Level

Senior

About the role

  • The Role As the Sr. Director of Demand Planning (Marketplace), you will lead the marketplace demand planning team, driving connection within the marketplace planning ecosystem, including DTC and WSHL channels.
  • Your role will be pivotal in optimizing visibility of risks and opportunities within and across channels, supporting informed and timely strategic decisions.
  • You will represent regional Demand Planning insights and strategies, contributing to global demand plans.
  • This highly cross-functional role involves close collaboration with Regional Sales, Merchandising, eCommerce, Retail, Marketing, Finance, and Technology to drive optimal customer service, operational effectiveness, and profitability.
  • We celebrate diversity--of your background, your experiences and your unique identity. We are committed to ensuring an inclusive and equitable workplace where all of our employees can Come as They Are. We believe that when we bring our different perspectives to work, we are truly Better Together.
  • Your Impact Lead demand shaping strategies to highlight risks and opportunities within and across channels, supporting informed and timely strategic decisions.
  • Own the demand planning process, engaging robustly with stakeholders throughout operational and budgetary/strategic timelines.
  • Propose consensus plans for key stakeholder alignment, providing transparency to the unconstrained demand plan and final demand proposal.
  • Maintain robust insights and commentary on consensus plans built upon sales forecasts, merchandising and brand guidance, market intelligence, and finance guidelines.
  • Develop accurate and dynamic demand forecasts incorporating statistical baselines, market trends, historic data, and PLM insights.
  • Ensure demand planning coding, clustering, and phasing strategies align with commercial and brand strategies by channel.
  • Manage inventory profiles to optimize sales and manage the risk of stockouts and obsolescence.
  • Ensure successful product launch initiatives from demand forecasting and launch inventory volume and phasing perspectives.
  • Drive continuous improvements in KPIs related to demand planning, including service level metrics, forecast accuracy, relative inventory reduction, turn, WOS, aged excess, and in-stock availability.
  • Identify, propose, and develop team skillsets required to drive future supply chain operations.
  • Create growth opportunities and stretch goals to ensure the team develops resilience, know-how, and capabilities

Requirements

  • Business, Supply Chain degree preferred. APICS, CIPS/CILT, 6-sigma desirable.
  • 13+ years of experience in key people leadership and influence roles, including at least 10+ years in a senior management function over a team of 15+ employees.
  • Experience as head of merchandise, demand planning for a global organization with multiple distribution channels (retail, wholesale, ecommerce) exceeding $1BB+; Strong understanding of how to leverage and integrate planning KPIs.
  • Strong understanding of evolving planning practices, technology, and tools, including integrated digital platforms and channels.
  • Experience integrating multiple departments in a matrix organization to achieve results.
  • Understanding of wholesale, retail, and ecommerce environments, with strong knowledge of the global footwear industry and its consumers.
  • Strong presentation skills at the board level, with experience influencing and motivating senior-level audiences.
  • Strategic leader, influencing up and down the organization for assigned BU.
  • Drive connection within the integrated marketplace planning process, to unlock risks and opportunities within and across channels for the business to make informed and timely decisions.
  • Inspire and motivate the team.
  • Champion new ways of working and adoption of new tools.
  • Come As You Are. Better Together. Commit To Create. Own It. Do Good and Do Great.