Job description
Our client, a growing D2C apparel brand based in Orange County is looking for a Demand Planner to join their team to help scale the business.Full time / direct hire
$70-$85K
Fully onsite in Irvine.
About the job
As the Demand Planner, you are responsible for planning for a rapidly growing multi category DTC business. This position will work cross functionally with marketing, merchandising and supply chain to analyze & forecast demand, assist in building out our product assortment and support supply chain to issue and track purchase orders inbound. The right candidate has a passion for product and analytics as well as being extremely detail oriented. You are motivated to proactively take initiative on opportunities to improve our processes and collaborate well with others.
Responsibilities
- Creates and maintains both established and ad hoc reporting to drive company visibility
- Analyzes sales trends and marketing analytics to help build out merchandise categories and go to market strategies
- Works closely with marketing, design and merchandising to build out seasonal buy plans based on historical demand analysis and marketplace trends
- Places purchase orders to our vendors at the size/sku level on time according to company calendar
- Upkeeps and improves on WIP reporting and publishes to key stakeholders who need to know when product is being received
- Collects sample demand from marketing and development, places POs and tracks samples in to distribute to necessary parties
- Updates and maintains dates, costing and other purchase order and product information fields within our ERP
- Demonstrates expertise in demand planning and inventory management and applies this to the development, execution, and improvement of action plans for all parts of the business
- Always seeking to find efficiencies and streamline processes within planning and other departments
Requirements
- 2+ years of demand planning or merchandise related experience
- Expert in complex Excel formulas using pivots, lookups and macros
- Comfortable presenting data to the team in a simple, well thought out way
- Demonstrated ability to work in a fast-paced environment
- Preferably ERP experience
- Detail oriented and data driven
- Willingness to learn and motivated personality
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