Senior Associate, Demand Planning

About Harry’s 

Harry’s Inc. started in 2013 with a specific goal: disrupt the shaving industry by creating an innovative, everyday product at a fair price. Since then, Harry’s has expanded to Canada and Europe, developed relationships with retailers such as Target and Walmart, expanded our grooming brand into a personal care powerhouse, launched two new brands including Flamingo and Cat Person, and made our first brand acquisition with Lumē. 

The key to our success? Our amazing people. From chemists, mechanical engineers, CX associates, to creative directors, sourcing managers, and logistics specialists, the Harry’s team is composed of some of the most brilliant, diverse, and humble people you’ll ever meet. 

Our brands answer unmet consumer needs, but our company is a place of inclusion and innovation that attracts some of the brightest minds across industries, geographies, and backgrounds. Whether we have a team of 5 or 500, our core values and our startup mentality remain; we value continuous improvement and learning, teamwork and collaboration, creative problem solving, and open and direct dialogue and feedback.

 

The Harry's Inc 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 North American 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 NA Demand Planning team. This person will be responsible for forecasting Harry’ North American Retail channels. They will work in close collaboration with the broader Commercial, 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 American Retail Channels

• Be the expert on drivers behind Harry’s retail business by running monthly cross-functional meetings to gather input from stakeholders across the company
• Produce accurate demand forecasts by maintaining statistical forecasts and incorporating new data within Blue Yonder
• 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
• Drive forecasting improvements to deliver Forecast Accuracy MAPE & BIAS targets
• Own Input and Sub-Channel Demand Review meetings with cross-functional partners. 

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

• Evolve the demand planning process using statistical forecasting, management by exception, ABC stratification and other tools and techniques.
• Support the continuous improvement of Blue Yonder statistical forecasting technology. 
• Measure and report key accuracy metrics to continuously improve the forecasting process with the goal of maintaining an efficient and optimized supply chain process
• ChampionIBP throughout the organization and own training and development of teammates into IBP processes

 

Work cross-functionally with different level of the organization in UK, New York and Germany:

• Work with strategy, sales and other functions to provide forecasts for new channel launches. 
• 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 quarterly 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 senior leadership and act as a thought partner on special projects and key business decisions

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