Demand Planner, Wholesale

Jellycat

Demand Planner responsible for delivering demand plans for wholesale channel at Jellycat. Analyzing data, supporting S&OP process, and managing inventory levels in a hybrid role.

Posted 6/23/2026full-timeMinneapolis • Minnesota • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $60,000 - $70,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Demand Planning: Developing the 18-month rolling Demand Plan at SKU and Category level to the financial plans in collaboration with the Commercial, Finance, Marketing, and Operations functions.
Analyzing demand data and working closely with the Commercial team to gain valuable consumer insights to make any necessary forecast adjustments.
Performing root cause analysis of supply/demand issues, providing commercial solutions, and escalating where necessary.
Analyzing forecasting accuracy for the monthly performance management cycle, ensuring all forecast variations and exceptions are understood and supported with a recovery plan where necessary.
Supporting and actively contributing to the monthly S&OP process by preparing demand data, generating forecast reports, and participating in review meetings as needed.
Undertaking regular data integrity checks of all demand planning master data fields to ensure all forecasts can be passed over to Senior Planning and Production Planning without error.
Ensuring application of product status and product lifecycle planning.
Adjusting demand plans to reflect seasonality, trends, and uplifts due to marketing activities, product lifecycle changes, category strategy, and consumer demand.
Planning around new product introductions, considering cannibalization of existing products due to new product introductions.
Managing Inventory: Owning and maintaining inventory reporting, including statistics on sales, inbound deliveries, stock holding, out-of-stock prevention, and reorder analysis.
Ensuring optimal inventory levels are held to maximize sales and minimize inventory liability risk.
Analyzing and Communicating: Communicating risks and opportunities to the business. Ensuring supply constraints are considered, and supply chain information is communicated to the relevant teams. Analyzing and reporting on forecast accuracy and bias measures, as well as quantitative and qualitative insights.

Requirements

What you’ll need

3-5+ years relevant experience in a Merchandising or Demand Planning role
Strong analytical and critical thinking skills with high business acumen are required to be able to convert complex problems into actionable solutions
Retail experience required
Experience with sales & operations planning (S&OP)
Ability to communicate effectively and build cross-functional relationships with a range of business stakeholders
Ability to multi-task in a fast-paced, dynamic and high growth environment with multiple deadlines
Good presentation skills - ability to articulate potentially complex and vague concepts clearly; take a data-led approach to meetings and updates
Advanced Excel skills essential
Demonstrable knowledge of end-to-end supply chain and different teams’ roles & responsibilities

Benefits

Comp & perks

🎉 Bonus – Annual discretionary bonus tied to both company performance and personal contribution.
🏥 Health Coverage – Medical (Blue Cross Blue Shield + generous Health Savings Account contribution), dental, vision, disability, and life insurance — most of it on us.
💰 401k – We'll match every single dollar up to 5% of your salary. Free money for your future!
🌴 30 Days PTO – Prorated and then loaded at the start of each year. Vacation and sick time combined, and yours to use.
🤝 Employee Assistance Program – Confidential support for whatever life throws your way.
🚗 Paid Parking + Perks – Covered, skyway-connected parking on us, plus a free gym, on-site clinic, pharmacy, and many local restaurants within walking distance.
🎊 Social Events – A very active social committee keeping the calendar full of celebrations and good times.

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Hard Skills & Tools

demand planningforecastingroot cause analysisdata integrity checksinventory managementsales & operations planning (S&OP)analytical skillsadvanced Excel

Soft Skills

analytical thinkingcritical thinkingbusiness acumeneffective communicationcross-functional relationship buildingmulti-taskingpresentation skills