Sr. Director, Demand Planning - HOKA & Emerging Brands

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Job Title: Sr. Director, Demand Planning - HOKA & Emerging Brands

Reports to: Senior Director, NA Integrated Planning

Location: Remote - US

Interested applicants must reside in one of the following approved states:

Arizona, California, Colorado, Indiana, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, Washington

The Role

The Sr. Director of Demand Planning will be responsible for the management and performance of the marketplace demand planning team for their assigned regional marketplace. This role is tasked with driving connection within the marketplace planning ecosystem, including DTC and WSHL channels, driving planning processes and insights to optimize visibility of risks and opportunities within and across channels which will support informed and timely strategic decisions. This leadership role is tasked with representing regional Demand Planning insights and strategies that inform and support regional demand contributions to global demand plans. This role is highly cross-functional and will partner closely with Regional Sales, Merchandising, eCommerce, Retail, Marketing, Finance, Technology, in managing the planning of the business to drive optimal customer service, operational effectiveness, and profitability.

We celebrate diversity--of your background, your experiences and your unique identity. We are committed to ensuring an inclusive and equitable workplace where all of our employees can Come as They Are. We believe that when we bring our different perspectives to work, we are truly Better Together.

Your Impact

• Lead demand shaping strategies designed to highlight risks and opportunities within and across channels to support informed and timely strategic decisions.
• Own the demand planning process including robust stakeholder engagement throughout the operational and budgetary/strategic timelines.
• Propose the consensus plan for key stakeholder alignment on timely intervals, providing transparency to the unconstrained demand plan & final demand proposal.
• Maintain robust insights and commentary on consensus plans built upon sales forecasts, merchandising and brand guidance, market intelligence, and finance guidelines.
• Develop accurate and dynamic demand forecasts incorporating statistical baselines, market trends, historic data, PLM insights.
• Ensure the demand planning coding, clustering, and phasing strategies and techniques are aligned with commercial and brand strategies by channel.
• Manage inventory profiles to optimize sales and manage risk of stockouts & obsolescence.
• Ensure all product launch initiatives are successful from demand forecasting and launch inventory volume and phasing perspectives.
• Drive self and team for continuous improvements in KPIs relating to the demand planning space, specifically service level metrics, forecast accuracy, relative inventory reduction, turn, WOS, aged excess, and in-stock availability.
• Identify, propose, and develop team skillsets required to drive future supply chain operations. Create growth opportunities and stretch goals to ensure the team develops resilience, know-how, and capabilities.

Who You Are

• Business, Supply Chain degree preferred.
• APICS, CIPS/CILT, 6-sigma desirable.
• 13+ years of experience in key people leadership and influence role including at least 10+ years in a Sr. management function over a team of 15+ employees.
• Experience as head of merchandise, demand planning for a global organization with multiple distribution channels (retail, wholesale, ecommerce) exceeding $1BB+; Strong understanding of how to leverage and integrate planning KPIs.
• Strong understanding of evolving planning practices, technology, and tools, including integrated d