Senior Planner, Demand

At Revlon, we create beauty innovations for everyone that inspire confidence and ignite joy every day.

Breaking beauty boundaries is in our company’s DNA. Since its game-changing launch of the first opaque nail enamel in 1932 (and later, the first long-wear foundation), Revlon has provided consumers with high-quality product innovation, performance, and sophisticated glamour. Elizabeth Arden made waves as a woman-led beauty company in the 1920s. In 1931, Almay became the original hypoallergenic, fragrance-free beauty brand.

Today, Revlon resiliently continues its legacy as a leading global beauty company. Our diverse portfolio—which consists of some of the world’s most iconic brands and product offerings in color cosmetics, skin care, hair color & care, personal care, and fragrances—is sold around the world through prestige, professional, mass, and direct-to-consumer retail channels. These brands include Revlon, Revlon Professional, Elizabeth Arden, Almay, American Crew, CND, Cutex, Mitchum, Sinful Colors, Creme of Nature, Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, John Varvatos, Juicy Couture, Ed Hardy and more.

We honor our heritage, embrace change, and applaud diversity. We champion our employees and celebrate our consumers.

We are Revlon, together, transforming beauty.

Position Overview:

• Create rolling 18-month customer sku level forecasts for all NPD Projects that consistently meet or exceed the targeted accuracy levels that result in maximizing the utilization of working capital.
• Interpret all appropriate business intelligence in the development of sku level forecasts.
• Collaborate with Sales to capture retail strategy plans to increase accuracy and achieve targeted service level mitigating inventory risk, and to provide independent forecast risk and opportunity analysis.
• Utilize a thorough knowledge of demand planning software to generate accurate forecasts with advanced forecasting modeling techniques. Supplement modeling methodology with excel spreadsheets to provide analysis critical to development of accurate forecasts
• The senior demand planner will apply analytical techniques and leverage statistical modeling to develop, an unbiased demand forecasts, enables the right product supply in support of the company’s financial and operational objectives

Major Duties:

• Perform statistical data analysis to identify useful relations, patterns and features that are predictive of forecasting trends and performance metrics projections.
• Establish predetermined exception criteria to narrow focus and efficiently address volatility in demand in the short term to impact operational readiness and to delivery best forecast projection for monthly supply planning.
• Analyze and review Retail POS, Shipment History and Inventory trends and monitor sales achievements to proactively identify issues and introduce forecast changes to improve accuracy and contribute to fill rate success.
• Combine latest customer trend information and performance metrics to lead fact based forecast review and attain sales consensus within S&OP process to deliver best in class projection.
• Analyze forecast and KPI (key performance indicators) behavior and identify and implement data, reporting and analytics and lead continuous process improvement initiatives.
• Maintain external files with Master Data information and ensure 100% accuracy.
• Prepare and distribute the various demand planning reports that support the business operation.
• Manage ad hoc analytic requests from raw data through presentation quickly, efficiently, and accurately. Perform data cleaning tasks as required.
• Manage SKU rationalization within demand as communicated by global marketing and supply; provide feedback and obtain alignment from the commercial teams ensuring timely adjustments.
• Lead Demand / Feeder meeting discussions with Sales, Finance, and Marketing to drive demand plan consensus identifying all relevant assumptions to be reflected in JDA including trend, marketing and customer activity impact, innovation, promotion events, and risks and opportunities.
• Provide comparative analyses detailing promotion, new and base business changes with all relevant business driver assumptions.
• Prepare and communicate division/brand total business changes with all appropriate business driver assumptions.
• Prepare and maintain comparative reports that support a continuous analysis of shipments, consumption trends, and promotional reconciliation to validate and report forecasts and forecast variances. Reports include quota promotional reconciliation, basic business sales reconciliation, monthly prior month phasing results, and ship share models.
• Develop total customer sku level unit forecast within a +/- 5% tolera