Senior Global Footwear Demand Planner

If you were in the Senior Global Footwear Demand Planner role now, here are some of the core activities you would be doing: • Developing and maintaining a rolling near and long-term demand forecast, 1-5 years out, for the Footwear category, including generating baseline statistical forecasts and translating assortment launch plans into demand projections

• Participating in the IBP cycle to build a consensus demand plan, reconciling top-down financial targets with bottom-up SKU-level forecasts • Providing volume outlooks to Sourcing, Supply Planning to support capacity and buy decisions, and building demand curves for new product launches • Conducting scenario and risk planning, identifying demand risks and supply constraints, and bringing recommendations to cross-functional partners • Work closely with Senior Footwear leaders in identifying demand drivers, and future growth opportunities across Regions and the Global business to drive assortment & product creation decisions • Be a powerful voice with regions and Senior Leaders on the Global Footwear strategy, identifying areas of investment opportunities, categorising risks, and bringing creative solutions to the table in a fast growing entrepreneurial business environment

Here are some of the things you could be working on in the future: • Contributing to IBP process maturity and forecasting methodology improvements that strengthen planning across the organization

• Shaping how new product forecasting and demand curve development evolve as the product portfolio grows

Are you our next Senior Global Footwear Demand Planner? • You have a bachelor’s degree in business, Supply Chain Management, Operations Management, or a related field

• You have 5+ years of experience in Demand Planning or Merchandise Planning, in a Footwear industry or Footwear focused portfolio • You have strong demand forecasting experience, including deep statistical forecasting knowledge and advanced Excel and data manipulation skills, with experience with global and regional nuances • You bring a strong understanding of retail KPIs • You have experience with new product forecasting, including building demand curves for launches • You have experience with advanced planning tools such as o9, Blue Yonder, Anaplan, Oracle • You are comfortable working across large, complex data environments • You are a strong analytical problem-solver who can balance forecast accuracy with business strategy and translate complex data into actionable insights for cross-functional partners • You have experience leading planning for a major category, including contributing to IBP cycles, reconciling top-down and bottom-up plans, and identifying demand risks and supply constraints • You are a strong cross-functional collaborator, able to partner effectively with Merchandise Financial Planning, Sourcing, Supply Planning, Inventory Planning, Allocations, Merchandising, FP&A, and Commercial • You have experience mentoring and developing others, sharing specialized knowledge to support team growth and build capability within your area