Demand Planning Manager - Kendo Brands

Job Description

ABOUT KENDO

Kendo Holdings, Inc. is a San Francisco-based beauty brand developer and wholesaler owned by LVMH Moët Hennessy - Louis Vuitton, the world's largest luxury group. A play on the words "can do", Kendo has become the hub of creativity and next generation beauty product development for global Sephora channels and selective retailers outside of Sephora.

Through original development, collaborations and acquisitions the Kendo stable of brands will always be creative, inspiring and innovative. A dynamic engine of speed, expertise and market-savvy, the Kendo team continues to redefine the beauty industry through great product, great storytelling, great retail and direct-to-consumer partnerships. This shows up in everything we do and in what we stand for:

• "Can Do" Spirit: We work together to make our wildest dreams a reality: As entrepreneurs, we embrace optimism and find creative ways to reach our goals
• Advocacy, Diversity, and Inclusion: We recognize and celebrate the full spectrum of personal identities. We create safe spaces so everyone's voice is heard. We listen with humility and act with courage.
• Storytelling: We tell authentic stories like no, one else. It's our key to inspire trust and build relationships, rallying, our people, partners, and consumers around our brands.
• Resilience: We embrace challenges as opportunities. Change is ever- constant, and agility is our strength.
• Product Excellence: We put the consumers first: We constantly raise the bar to create products of the highest quality that everyone just has to have.

The salary range for this position is $103,654 - $129,568 per year based upon a San Francisco location. Offered salary is dependent upon experience and location. Kendo Total Rewards offerings also include an annual bonus and a comprehensive benefits package including: medical, dental and vision insurance, flex paid time off program, parental leave, employee discount/perks, a retirement plan with employer contributions, Summer Fridays, opportunity to work from anywhere for a month in the summer and July and December wellness/shutdown weeks for applicable positions.

The Kendo house of brands currently includes: Fenty Beauty, Fenty Skin, KVD Beauty, Lip Lab, Ole Henriksen.

Kendo Brands has a hybrid work model with three days in office and two days remote each week.

POSITION SUMMARY:

We are looking for a Demand Planning Manager to join our dynamic, fast-paced team at Kendo Brands in San Francisco. In this role, you will be responsible for aggregated bottoms up, global demand, by sku/location, as well as management of an array of supplemental demand elements over a multi-year horizon. A passion for data and problem solving is required as you identify trends and synthesize demand signals to develop an accurate Demand Plan.

POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Develop and track Retail Selling Baseline and Bottoms up demand forecast by sku, month, DC location
• Manage and apply rationalized Demand Plan factors for seasonality, promotions, expansions, new markets, while capturing overall brand strategy and performance considerations
• Present actionable demand plan insights by leveraging weekly/monthly data resources and analysis to share emerging Retail trends, performance guidance and overall business perspective
• Identify emerging trends, risks and outliers to refine and protect the replenishment demand horizon to achieve service level targets
• Validate and incorporate Merchandise Planning partner updates for New Distribution and Retailer Activities
• Drive Post-Launch replenishment demand plan analysis and facilitate replenishment horizon updates
• Clearly articulate business demand drivers, identify opportunities and risks, and proactively collaborate with Supply Planning partners to support inventory strategies
• Ensure constant and accurate system demands while facilitating ongoing, progressive demand updates
• Troubleshoot demand plan gaps, out of stocks and fill rate exceptions to resolve with Supply Chain Team partners
• Manage Master Calendar activities to track and capture New Product Launches, Marketing Initiatives, Lifecycle and Cross functional milestones
• Oversee Data Maintenance activities and manage product attributes in Planning Tools, including program Lifecycle, Launch Dates, Item Classification and dependent data drivers
• Manage Phase-out Program demand plan to align with Brand strategies
• Facilitate Obsolescence and Optimization activities and cross functional collaboration
• Contribute to other Operations and Supply Chain initiatives as required

POSITION REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent business experience required
• Experience with ERP/MRP Systems (Oracle, SAP, AX Dynamics)
• High proficiency in Microsoft Office suite (specifically Excel, Word, PowerPoint)
• 5-7 years Supply Chain Operations experience (Demand Planning, Supply/Inventory Planning, Supply Chain Strategy and Design, Logistics)
• Developed analytical, strategic-thinking, problem-solving, and organizational skills as well as the ability to adapt quickly to changing priorities, assignments, and roles
• Ability to process, analyze and distill large amounts of data and outlier identification
• Possess Intellectual curiosity and initiative, and willingness to accept new responsibilities
• Analytical approach while being process and efficiency oriented, and mindful of cross functional outcomes