Senior Demand Planner, Apparel (San Leandro)

About the Role

The Senior Demand Planner reports through the supply chain function supporting the team in forecasting wholesale customer demand, inventory management, analytics, reporting, and process improvements. The ideal candidate for this role is passionate about product, customers, data analysis with a relentless curiosity for insights that will optimize revenue, margin, and inventory productivity. This is a highly integrated position, interfacing with virtually every department, communication and collaboration is critical for success.

Youll Make a Difference By

• Creating and managing demand forecasts and aligning inventory plans in assigned areas of wholesale apparel business.
• Delivering results across revenue, margin, and inventory company goals with a sharp focus on sales to stock, fill rates, assortment productivity, forecast accuracy, and inventory turns.
• Generating and aligning weekly / monthly demand and supply recommendations, focused on business drivers with cross functional partners.
• Evolving and maintaining documentation and standard operating procedures for demand planning processes and systems.
• Assembling, analyzing, recommending the demand / sales plans (examples : statistical forecasts, historical sales, market trends, product trends, seasonality, marketplace insights, customer POS, capacity plans, inventory levels).
• Creating and continuously improving forecasting techniques, methods (statistical models and software tools), and processes to scale the planning processes.
• Leading demand and inventory planning meetings with merchandising, marketplace, sourcing teams delivering alignment across business drivers that produce revenue, margin, and inventory goals.
• Preparing, reporting, and communicating forecast and inventory measurements to management (forecast accuracy, inventory plan vs. targets).
• Other duties as assigned

About You

About Ariat

Ariat is an innovative, outdoor global brand with roots in equestrian performance. We develop high-quality footwear and apparel for people who ride, work, and play outdoors, and care about performance, quality, comfort, and style.

The salary range for this position is $100,000 - $110,000 per year.

The salary is determined by the education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities of the applicant, internal equity, and alignment with market data for geographic locations. Ariat in good faith believes that this posted compensation range is accurate for this role at this location at the time of this posting. This range may be modified in the future.

Ariats holistic benefits package for full-time team members includes (but is not limited to) :

Note : Availability of benefits may be subject to location & employment type and may have certain eligibility requirements. Ariat reserves the right to alter these benefits in whole or in part at any time without advance notice.

Ariat will consider qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with state and local laws. Ariat is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, orientation, national origin, age, disability, genetics or any other basis protected under federal, state, or local law. Ariat is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to candidates with disabilities. If you need an accommodation during the application process, email human.resources@ariat.com.

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Please note that Ariat does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or employment agencies. In the absence of a signed Agreement, Ariat will not consider or agree to payment of any referral compensation or recruiter / agency placement fee. In the event a recruiter or agency submits a resume or candidate without a previously signed Agreement, Ariat explicitly reserves the right to pursue and hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to the recruiter or agency. Any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted directly to hiring managers, are deemed to be the property of Ariat.