JOB SUMMARY:
This position will be responsible for ensuring global demand for innovation products (both permanent and limited life) are aligned to global financial targets, product benchmarks, and historical trends. She/he will lead monthly internal review meetings to ensure the commercial organization and head of S&OP are aligned and can sign-off on a region level demand prior to demand submission.

As this role is highly collaborative across both commercial and supply chain functions, she/he will work closely in tight communications with the following teams, via ad-hoc and weekly/ monthly project and status reviews

-Brand Global Marketing

-Brand Product Development

-NPD & NPC teams (Supply Chain)

-Operations and S&OP cross-functional teams

-Domestic Sales and Marketing Teams

Further, this role will work in conjunction with brand global marketing and product development to shape new launch and discontinuation decisions across the US portfolio in-line with strategic brand and supply chain optimization goals. This will form the foundation of the add/delete process to ensure new launches deliver incremental growth to the global brand while minimizing supply chain impact.

JOB SUMMARY:

This position will be responsible for ensuring global demand for innovation products (both permanent and limited life) are aligned to global financial targets, product benchmarks, and historical trends. She/he will lead monthly internal review meetings to ensure the commercial organization and head of S&OP are aligned and can sign-off on a region level demand prior to demand submission.

As this role is highly collaborative across both commercial and supply chain functions, she/he will work closely in tight communications with the following teams, via ad-hoc and weekly/ monthly project and status reviews

-Brand Global Marketing

-Brand Product Development

-NPD & NPC teams (Supply Chain)

-Operations and S&OP cross-functional teams

-Domestic Sales and Marketing Teams

Further, this role will work in conjunction with brand global marketing and product development to shape new launch and discontinuation decisions across the US portfolio in-line with strategic brand and supply chain optimization goals. This will form the foundation of the add/delete process to ensure new launches deliver incremental growth to the global brand while minimizing supply chain impact.

PRIMARY DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

Lead internal review meetings where each innovation's global demand is rolled up and reviewed vs benchmarks and are aligned to the brands commercial leadership team and S&OP lead's expectations

Direct internal teams to ensure regions and affiliates' operations and marketing teams are delivered what they require to start forecasting demand for innovation.

Ensure affiliate and regional demand for innovation are loaded into SAP IBP prior to due dates

Facilitate communication of supply risk to affiliates/regions in conjunction with Supply planning lead

Engage with global marketing and product development to ensure global discontinuation decisions

WORKING RELATIONSHIPS/KEY STAKEHOLDERS:

-Brand Global Marketing

-Brand Product Development

-NPD & NPC teams (Supply Chain)

-Affiliate & Regional Product Marketing & Operations teams

-International Business Development teams

-Domestic Sales and Marketing teams

-S&OP team

QUALIFICATIONS & COMPETENCIES:
-4-year bachelor's degree required
-Major in Engineering, Supply Chain, Finance, or related field a PLUS
-1-3 years' experience in demand planning (beauty or CPG preferred)
-Relevant S&OP, supply chain, data analysis, or other business planning experience a PLUS
-Demonstrated ability to lead meetings to drive actions and accountability across cross-functional teams.
-Demonstrated ability to communicate complex topics clearly and concisely to peers and senior leadership
-Demonstrated ability to quickly adapt in a highly collaborative environment, a team player, fit with the NARS brand and culture
-Advanced excel skills: demonstrated ability to quickly manipulate large raw data sets to produce reporting that is intuitive and easy
Day-to-day responsibilities:

1. 
   Responsible for at least 2 retailers or DTC planning groups
   
   
   
   1. Responsible for the 18M External demand planning
   
   
   2. Building and aligning new launch forecasts to meet financial targets based on historical trends, benchmark, and growth strategies
   
   
   3. Life-cycle management including global and retailer-specific add/deletes
   
   
   
   


2. 
   Responsible for Forecast Accuracy/Bias according to KPI Targets
   
   
   
   1. Monthly reporting and root cause analytics; developing action plans and implementing changes based on findings
   
   
   
   


3. 
   Implementing IBP Statistical Forecasting for US Portfolio
   
   
   
   1. Historical Data cleansing
   
   
   2. Implement statistical forecasting across all retailers by YE 2022
   
   
   
   


4. Responsible for leading at least 2 retailer specific pre-Demand Review and Demand Review meetings and facilitating conversations between Demand Planning, sales, marketing, and finance to align on the US Region Demand plan prior to the month-end submission for production execution.

Shiseido is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender identity, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, genetic information or any other classification protected by Federal, State or Local law