Senior Manager, Supply Planning - Kendo Brands

Job Description

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 $119,203 - $149,003 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.

POSITION SUMMARY

The Senior Manager, Supply Planning is the voice of the Operations team to the business. This role is responsible for building and managing the end-to-end demand and supply planning processes and workflows for a specific Brand. This role will also be responsible for the Supply Planning side of a new Brand launch. They will work cross functionally with the Brand team, Global Fulfillment, Merchandise Planning & Demand Planning to resolve issues and to support new product launches, and replenishment of core product. They are the liaison to all areas of Planning (Production, Material and Sourcing). They will manage a monthly S&OP process to achieve cross functional reconciliation of supply vs demand plans as well as assess, communicate, and mitigate risks to the plan. The ideal candidate will build strong internal partnerships with cross functional teams to drive inventory optimization and achieve the company's and Operations Team objectives. This role requires experience in leading a team to consensus, recommending creative solutions to challenges and is comfortable with presenting to Senior Leadership.

RESPONSIBILITIES
• Manage global supply plans to meet demand and inventory targets for an assigned brand (s) for all channels of distribution
• Lead Supply Planning for new item introductions, transitions, product discontinuance, and disposition of slow moving and unproductive inventories
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with cross-functional teams, act as an effective liaison between Brand, Merchandise Planning and Operations Partners
• Communicate and escalate significant supply problems, identify the root cause and the resolution to supply shortage
• Review published forecast with understanding of sales strategy plans to ensure ERP forecast correctly reflects business objectives
• Allocate new products and constrained products to channels, balancing inventory, demand and strategy
• Create strategies that reduce projected product overstock and obsolescence. Align with cross functional teams to strategically exit the SKU with minimal obsolescence liability and to sell through overstock
• Ensure continuous improvement to meet and exceed yearly targets
• Initiate, or participate in, projects as requested or as identified

REQUIREMENTS

Qualifications:
• Minimum 7 - 9 years in one or more Supply Chain Planning positions (Supply Planning, Demand Planning, Production Planning). Experience in wholesale planning required and retail planning is a plus
• Communication excellence such as professionally communicating clearly: verbal and written
• MRP planning experience, preferably with Microsoft A/X
• Advanced Excel skills (V-lookups, pivot tables, and formulas a must), Proficiency with MS Office, SQL database queries a plus
• BA / BS Degree required.
• APICS, CPIM or CSCP certification preferred but not required.