Dickies: Senior Manager, Demand Planning

For over a century, Dickies has been worn by those forging their own path to shape the world we live in. We celebrate the can-do spirit of tradespeople, skaters, and doers who continue to put their trust in us. And we’re ready for the next 100 years of rolling up our sleeves alongside them, creating styles that work as hard as they do. 

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Senior Manager, Demand Planning  

What will you do? 

A day in the life of a Senior Manager, Demand Planning at Dickies looks a little like this.  

The Senior Manager of Demand Planning owns the Dickies Account Planning process end to end for specified channels/accounts. They will lead monthly demand planning activities which include building and analyzing forecasts, making recommendations, incorporating historical and market intelligence data into the current forecast. This includes leveraging the demand planning software to execute monthly plans.  You will work closely with many teams including, but not limited to sales, finance, operations, supply planning, and merchandising. This position will represent the definition of VF’s purpose driven performance and our performance-driven culture working to cultivate an environment that is consistent with VF’s vision. The role will lead their team in ways that help shape a culture that emphasizes accountability, working with an inclusive and global mindset. Participate in advancing VF’s business model transformation to become more consumer-minded, retail-centric, and hyper-digital. This position reports to Senior Director, Multichannel Operations.   

Let’s break down that day-in-the-life a bit more.  

• Develop strong collaborative internal and external account relationships to drive an accurate revenue signal to increase the service level to the retailer.   

• Maintain Dickies internal financial forecast through the S&OP process. Participating with finance and sales in a collaborative process to align financial plan and sales forecast.   

• Be the liaison between sales, finance, operations, supply planning, and merchandising to insure the overall execution.   

• Lead a team of Demand Planners towards successful execution of business objectives  

• Actively participate in Commercially led GTM Milestones   

• Incorporate point of sale data reports to read and react to consumer behavior.   

• Manage account level plans by Style/color/size   

• Perform pre-season, in-season, and post-season analysis to identify opportunities and risks at the account/channel level.   

• Provide input around key decisions related to drops, and in stock style positions regarding Supply Demand match. Partnering with Supply Planning to implement strategies and anticipate/mitigate opportunities and risks.   

• Articulate key findings providing both qualitative and quantitative insights and participate in the resulting action plans to support revenue projections.   

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