Product and Seasonal Sales Forecaster

Lush Fresh Handmade Cosmetics North America

New Product and Seasonal Sales Forecaster creating sales forecasts for new and seasonal products in UK&I. Collaborating with various teams to ensure product availability and customer satisfaction.

Posted 7/16/2026full-timeRemote • 🇬🇧 United KingdomMid-LevelSenior💰 £30,000 - £34,000 per yearWebsite

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Demonstrates expertise in generating accurate sales forecasts and translating them into actionable purchasing strategies, while collaborating effectively with cross-functional teams to optimize product launch timelines and enhance overall retail operations.

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Sales ForecastingFinancial AnalysisSpreadsheet ProficiencyMarket Trend AnalysisProcess Improvement

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Hard Skills

Sales ForecastingFinancial AnalysisSpreadsheet ProficiencyProduct KnowledgeData Interpretation

Soft Skills

Attention to DetailCuriosityPresentation SkillsCollaboration

Tools & Technologies

ExcelGoogle Sheets

Industry Keywords

Retail OperationsVisual MerchandisingDemand TrendsProduct LaunchStakeholder Engagement

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Generate new and seasonal product sales forecasts for UK Retail to review, using historic and future demand trends.
Support the translation of sales to purchases with provision of initial allocation, waste and tolerance assumptions as well as suggested phasing.
Work with the UK&I Retail team to review and produce realistic forecasts, helping them to understand the impact of final forecasting positions.
Highlighting possible impact to all year round (AYR) product sales where relevant.
Working with UK&I Finance Business Partner and wider finance teams, ensuring alignment with financial forecasts, and highlighting potential variances for discussion with stakeholders.
Collaborate with UK&I Retail and Brand Teams, alongside the Commercial Analyst, to analyse and interpret market trends, ensuring that demand signals and upcoming strategies are accurately reflected in product forecasts.
Continuously work on process improvements to increase forecast accuracy and optimise launch timelines.
Maintain understanding of current retail operations, visual merchandising standards and shop product quality to enhance product forecasts and understand sales and ordering trends.
Track, adjust and report on each forecast by arranging and facilitating regular review meetings, ensuring all relevant parts of the business are represented and accountable.
Provide stakeholders with a summary of each review, including changes to forecast, financial impact and ongoing strategy.
Maintain organised and accurate records of all new and seasonal product forecasts contained within the Central Forecasting Team drive.
Create pack size recommendations for UK manufacturing based on the forecast that is suitably sized to allow flexibility to all shops within the UK and Croatia supply chain.
Collaborate with the Product Operations Lead and UK&I Retail in areas where your role, experience and skills directly support team and company goals. This could include: providing ad hoc analysis, peer and manager development, or contributing to larger projects, for example.
Create and maintain seasonal archives for new ranges, to be utilised by the wider forecasting network.
Provide feedback and product insights to a network of global forecasters through new product samples and from information gathered via product launch channels and operational meetings, to assist global forecasts.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Intermediate to advanced knowledge of spreadsheet-based applications, including Excel and Google Sheets.
Strong financial understanding, excellent commercial awareness and exceptional product knowledge.
Pride in the presentation and clarity of your work, ensuring that every chart and summary is accessible and actionable for stakeholders.
Naturally curious and want to uncover the ‘why’ behind the trends and anomalies.

Benefits

Comp & perks

25 days holiday plus bank holidays
6 months of full pay for parental leave (primary caregiver must qualify for SMP)*
Enhanced paternity leave*
Bonus scheme
Day off for weekday birthdays
Holiday purchase scheme
50% discount on Lush products and spa treatments
Cycle to work scheme
Discounted rail and bus season tickets
Employee assistance programme
There’s a big difference between "Flexible Working " (the legal minimum) and working flexibly. What that looks like varies from role to role and location to location. We actively welcome conversations about what working flexibly could mean and look like for you.
We’re 10% Employee Owned - all colleagues play a role in protecting our ethics, our independence, contributing ideas for the future and share in the rewards of success when the company is doing well.
Wellbeing & mindfulness sessions
Access to employee-led Community Networks, including Disability and Chronic Illness, Family Support, Global Majority (Race and Ethnicity), LGBTQIA+, Menopause and Neurodiversity communities.
Tailored gender affirming care*