Sr. Associate, Demand Planning

About Harry’s

Harry’s is a men’s grooming brand that offers high quality shave, body, hair, and skin care products at an exceptional value. Launched in 2013, Harry’s redefined the shaving experience and helped pioneer the earliest era of direct to consumer in the process. Since then, the brand has become the #2 shave brand globally and expanded to offer products for every step in its customer’s routine. Harry’s is also on a mission to ensure guys have access to quality mental health care. To date, the brand has helped connect over 2 million men to quality mental health resources.

 

Harry’s is part of Mammoth Brands, the modern CPG company behind category-leading brands Harry’s, Flamingo, Lume, and Mando. Driven by a mission to “Create Things People Like More,”  the company is creating a new model—and home—for brands, founders, and talent looking to solve unmet needs, improve peoples’ lives and ultimately change the status quo. Even as we grow, we take extra care to maintain the small, scrappy, entrepreneurial culture that helped to get us where we are today: a company that people like more, that better serves its customers, employees, and community. Mammoth Brands is committed to making a positive impact and donated over $20 million through our network of nonprofit partners to date. 

 

The Harry's working model is in-office Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. Our beautiful 70,000 square foot SoHo office is decked out with bagels on Wednesdays and lunch on Thursdays, and fully stocked kitchens with snacks, coffee, and drinks everyday.  Can’t forget the free products and the opportunity to have some meetings without Zoom!

 

About the Team:

The global demand planning team at Harry’s is responsible for demand forecasting and is part of the Global Supply Chain organization. This team plays a critical role in ensuring efficient operational performance and in enabling senior management to make business-optimizing decisions through the Integrated Business Planning (IBP) process. 

 

About the Role:

We are looking for a high-performing analytical and collaborative person to join our Demand Planning team. This person will be responsible for forecasting Harry’s products within our North America Retail business across several categories. They will work in close collaboration with the broader Commercial, Analytics, Operations, and Finance teams and have frequent interaction with multiple company departments. This is also an opportunity that affords significant exposure to and impact on senior-level operations, finance and strategy for a high-growth consumer brand. The role is based in our New York office.

Key Responsibilities:

Own the monthly global demand planning process for Harry’s North America Retail Channels

• Be the expert on drivers behind the forecast by running monthly cross-functional meetings to gather input from stakeholders across the company
• Produce accurate demand forecasts by analyzing key forecast drivers 
• Collaborate with Supply Chain, FP&A and Commercial teams to determine the downstream implications of published demand forecasts
• Develop root cause analysis and forward actions for demand forecasting issues by SKU, category, channel and customer

Manage projects that improve the accuracy and efficiency of our forecasting efforts:

• Continuously improve forecasting in collaboration with Analytics
• Develop content for the demand review meetings to summarize the building blocks and key assumptions behind the forecast along with insights and recommendations
• Measure and report key accuracy metrics to continuously improve the forecasting process with the goal of maintaining an efficient and optimized supply chain process
• Become an expert in Demand Planning both internally and externally and active participate in knowledge sharing and training sessions with the team and the broader org
• Consistently review internal planning processes and propose ways to improve efficiency within our systems

Work cross-functionally with different levels of the organization in New York & London

• Collaborate with the Marketing, Product and R&D teams to develop forecasts for new product launches 
• Work closely with the cross-functional team on the annual budgeting and monthly reforecasting processes to provide visibility on revenue and growth
• Work with the FP&A, Strategy and Operations teams on revenue and margin gap improvement initiatives
• Have significant exposure to the Harry’s leadership and act as a thought partner on special proj