Senior Demand Planning Analyst

Who We Are:
At Brooks, we believe a run can change a day, a life, the world. Everyone who works here is a key part of our obsession to make the best running gear on the planet. We want our business — which also happens to be our passion — to be a place where everyone feels welcome and comfortable being themselves. Our company culture defines us, bonds us together, and drives our success. We live this culture daily through our brand values: Runner First, Word is Bond, Champion Heart, There is no “I” in Run, and Keep Moving. This means we always solve for the runner, do what we say we will, give it our all, are generous with our humanity, and find a way to keep moving every day, because joy is kinetic. 
Are you ready to help create something extraordinary?
NOTE: This is a Seattle HQ based job at Brooks Running
Your Job:
As the Senior Demand Planning Analyst, you will play a key role in developing the 5 years strategic and 24 months Operational Demand Plan at brand, SKU, and account level in context for multi-categories and multi-channels to support growing Brooks’ business. 
Functionally, you will serve as a strategic planner to help shape and guide business level strategic and tactical planning activities. Operationally, you will contribute to the creation of the channel/category operational demand forecasts with the goal of building accurate forecasts through statistical methods & business drivers analysis collaborating with Sales, Retail Analytics, Product, Marketing, Finance and other supply chain teams.

Your Responsibilities:

• Ensure new product introduction, promotion and other customer or business historical data and insights are properly collected and validated to provide support for future modeling and achieve forecast accuracy objectives.
• Analyze new product launches actuals to determine risks & opportunities versus financial and demand plans
• Forecast and plan utilizing tools, generating baseline & lift forecasts as required, supporting plan validation through proper articulation, and understanding of plan evolution versus launch, promotion, other business input and insights
• Drive forecast accuracy analysis (FA% and Bias%) including root cause and performance problem solving with a continuous improvement mindset, identifying risk, opportunities and deviations from forecasted results and other disruptions and promptly resolve or make recommendations for any issues
• Prepare demand planning input for budget, trend, and strategic & operational S&O for the Supply Chain, Business and Financial communities
• Assist Demand Planning Manager in facilitating monthly consensus meetings with Sales, Retail Analytics, Marketing, Finance & Market Supply Planning which may include preparing all data and metrics for review, identifying gaps and scenarios that must be presented, facilitating decision making on open items and trade-offs, and ensuring action is taken on agreed to action items.
• Review performance metrics to assess how S&OP plans are tracking against goals, and work with the functional planning groups to improve their processes to meet the goals
• Build and maintain excellent relationships with key internal customers based on trust and confidence
• Mentor and train team members and cross-functional partners on the tools, systems, and processes within the Integrated Planning team
• Maintain and improve forecasting models and methodology by reviewing historical sales trends at multiple levels of aggregation, researching demand drivers, developing forecast models, and collaborating with key stakeholders
• Lead cross-functional research activities to reconcile significant variances and refine the forecast model to reflect updated assumptions
• Act as a key contributor in the development of demand planning best practices to identify, standardize and automate key planning inputs
• Contribute to the Global Demand Planning Community by developing Demand Planning Excellence program and participating in cross-functional project teams
• Other projects and responsibilities as required

Your Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in a Business, Supply Chain, or related discipline or equivalent combination of experience
• 5+ years of experience in a planning related field including use of:
• Demand Planning systems leveraging statistical and collaborative forecasting methods.
• Sell in and sell out units forecasting
• Forecast Bias, forecast accuracy metrics and root cause analysis 
• Strong analytical and conceptual skills with an aptitude for report-building, data mining, interpretation and recommendations based on their own analysis. Strong computer and quantitative skills, including:
• BI, Tableau, or any other Data warehouse/analytics system 
• Excel – Intermediate/a