Demand Planner - Los Angeles

POSITION: Demand Planner

Reporting Relationships: This position reports to the Manager of Sales Planning

Company Overview:
J Brand creates jeans that are sophisticated, have classic craftsmanship, are timeless products with an emphasis on fit and the inspiration to make women and men look and feel fabulous in their jeans. With this mission, J Brand has achieved a winning combination of style, comfort and sexiness in denim.
Since 2005 J Brand continues to have success with consumers, notable celebrities and influential editors. Remaining true and authentic to the customer while delivering inventive designs and collaborations, J Brand continues to be an industry leader and purveyor in the premium denim market. J Brand is featured in over 2000 specialty stores and luxury retailers in over 20 countries worldwide including: Barneys New York, Neiman Marcus, Bergdorf Goodman, Saks Fifth Avenue, Bloomingdales, Nordstrom, Jeffrey and Ron Herman in the United States. Harvey Nichols and Selfridges in London, Le Bon Marche in Paris, Biffi in Milan, Lane Crawford in Hong Kong, and Tsum in Moscow.

Summary: J Brand is seeking a Demand Planner within its Sales Planning group located at our headquarters near the garment district in Los Angeles and shall be responsible to: update and maintain sales forecasts for assigned product classes, using tools such as J Brand sell to, customer sell through, and shipments. Research and analyze customer fill rates. Through proactive means find ways that will avoid future shortages without increasing inventory. Maintain ongoing communication with Sales, Supply Planning, Product Management, Warehouse, and other internal departments. Ensure that the in-stock levels at customer accounts meet customer expectations.

J Brand is looking for someone who is highly organized, able to take and understand direction, has a keen sense to detail and accuracy, work pro-actively and efficiently by completing tasks and deadlines and maintains professionalism at all times. You must exercise and maintain a highly integral work ethic.

DEMAND PLANNER:
Develop and monitor unit plans, projections, inventory flow, promotional strategies and seasonal sell-off plans.
Develop, maintain and own the primary relationship with your assigned customers replenishment team.
Compare forecasts to financial budgets, and be able to explain variances.
Identify and explain channel inventory and forecast risks.
Monitor Channel Inventory and key customer in-stock levels, and ensure we are meeting customer goals.
Work closely with the Customers replenishment team to reduce channel inventory risks and develop plans to increase velocity of any skus identified as risks.
Analyze factors that impact demand for J Brand products (i.e. category trends, promotions and events, competitive products, and seasonality).
Work with Sales, Regional Product Management and Supply Planning to identify opportunities for meeting the demand in the event of capacity constraints.
Ability to make decisions with limited information but also able to synthesize large quantities of data to drive business decisions.