Execution Planner

Description

Position Summary:

The Execution planner is responsible for demand and supply planning activities to secure the short-term availability of finished goods complying with the company’s service standards, sales plans, allocation policies and IBP process. This role is critical for the affiliate business team to ensure operational sales plan is executed with needed operational discipline and to react appropriately to unplanned events to maximize sales revenue.

Key Responsibilities:

The role combines demand and supply planning activities to manage the execution horizon (0 to 2 months), for a portfolio of brands for the affiliate:

• Track customer shipment against demand plan, analyze “forecast left-to-go” and action key deviations with the affiliate Sales team.
• Analyze demand trends in the execution window, sense demand changes, provide information to the Operational Demand Planner to shape demand
• Track and record actual sales drivers
• Collaborate with Regional Inventory deployer & Commercial Regional Supply Managers to ensure inventory needed in the affiliate is on time and to resolve supply gap as needed
• Lead Execution weekly meeting with key multifunctional counterparts to review key deviations vs. agreed operating plan and drive actions
• Lead Excess Review process, collaborating with Sales & brand team to agree corrective actions
• Responsible for communication with regional demand planning WFA (stat and enriched), forecasting bias, and demand attainment
• Collaborate with customer service

Report on Fill Rate and Shipment vs. Forecast on a daily/weekly basis to the affiliate business team, provide understanding of losses root causes and perspective on short term availability of finished goods products

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor’s degree or higher in Business, Supply Chain, Economics, or related field
• Direct experience: Minimum 4-6 years of related experience in Planning, preferably in a Demand Planning role
• Knowledge of, and experience with forecasting, demand planning, supply planning and S&OP, customer service, sales management
• Knowledge of beauty industry and regional / affiliate market trends
• Strong analytical and modeling skills with hands-on experience with statistical forecasting and planning tools (e.g., SAP, Kinaxis, Logility, etc.)

Capabilities:

• Strong organizational skills, with ability to successfully prioritize and manage multiple accountabilities simultaneously
• Ability to strategically identify and validate regional / affiliate industry trends and sales drivers
• Strong attention to detail – ability to accurately manage, update, maintain large datasets
• Excellent problem-solving skills and quick to react and respond to changes
• Execution oriented – thrive under pressure with a demonstrated ability to get things done

Ability to work within and across multiple functional teams, collaborating with Planning, Brand, Finance, Supply Chain and Commercial stakeholders