Temporary Demand Planner

Primary Purpose:

The Demand Planner is responsible for planning inventory flow, analyzing sales data as well as forecasting reorder and made to forecast demand for all European wholesale accounts to maximize sales in line with regional OTB. They will be responsible for monitoring inbound product delivery and outbound shipment demands to distributor and wholesale accounts.

The successful individual will leverage their proficiency in Demand Planning to...
- Owning and maintaining inventory reporting including monthly statistics on sales, inbound production deliveries, stock holding, out of stock prevention and reorder analysis. Ensure optimal inventory levels are held to maximize sales and minimize inventory liability risk
- Analyzing market sell in and owning the post market reconciliation process ensuring all forecast needs are accurately captured and placed into production.
- Own made to forecast and replenishment (ATS) plans in line with regional OTB, ensuring stock availability in season to support sales targets
- Track inbound production deliveries from manufacturing service providers to company distribution points and able to provide risk analysis where necessary. Ability to effectively communicate risk to pop up / marketing SKU's and provide solution strategy.
- Performing root cause analysis on missed sales opportunity.
- Support cross-functional research activities to reconcile significant variances and refine the forecast model to reflect latest POS sales results and market assumptions
- Build relationships, interact and collaborate with sales, operations, finance, buying, inventory management, and supply chain partners.
The accomplished individual will possess...
- 2+ years in Demand Planning / Supply Chain role, experience of a wholesale business model
- Highly Analytical with an eye for detail and ability to translate data into action points
- Ability to multi-task in a fast paced environment
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Excel skills (pivots, vlookups, ifs / sumifs)

Our Competencies for All Employees
- Drive for Results: Can be counted on to exceed goals successfully; is constantly and consistently one of the top performers; very bottom-line oriented; steadfastly pushes self and others for results.
- Customer Focus: Is dedicated to meeting the expectations and requirements of internal and external customers; gets first-hand customer information and uses it for improvements in products and services; acts with customers in mind; establishes and maintains effective relationships with customers and gains their trust and respect.
- Creativity: Comes up with a lot of new and unique ideas; easily makes connections among previously unrelated notions; tends to be seen as original and value-added in brainstorming settings.
- Interpersonal Savvy: Relates well to all kinds of people, up, down, and sideways, inside and outside the organization; builds appropriate rapport; builds constructive and effective relationships; uses diplomacy and tact; can diffuse even high-tension situations comfortably.
- Learning on the Fly: Learns quickly when facing new problems; a relentless and versatile learner; open to change; analyzes both successes and failures for clues to improvement; experiments and will try anything to find solutions; enjoys the challenge of unfamiliar tasks; quickly grasps the essence and the underlying structure of anything.
- Perseverance: Pursues everything with energy, drive, and a need to finish; seldom gives up before finishing, especially in the face of resistance or setbacks.
- Dealing with Ambiguity: Can effectively cope with change; can shift gears comfortably; can decide and act without having the total picture; isn't upset when things are up in the air; doesn't have to finish things before moving on; can comfortably handle risk and uncertainty.
Our Competencies for All People Managers
- Strategic Agility: Sees ahead clearly; can anticipate future consequences and trends accurately; has broad knowledge and perspective; is future oriented; can articulately paint credible pictures and visions of possibilities and likelihoods; can create competitive and breakthrough strategies and plans.
- Building Effective Teams: Blends people into teams when needed; creates strong moraleand spirit in theirteam; shares wins and successes; fosters open dialogue; lets people finish and be responsible for their work; defines success in terms of the whole team; creates a feeling of belonging in the team.
- Managerial Courage: Doesn't hold back anything that needs to be said; provides current, direct, complete, and "actionable" positive and corrective feedback to others; lets people know where they stand; faces up to people problems on any person or situation (not including direct reports) quickly and directly; is not afraid to take negative action when necessary.

Kate Spade is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer and we pride ourselves on hiring and developing the best people. All employment decisions (including recruitment, hiring, promotion, compensation, transfer, training, discipline and termination) are based on the applicant's or employee's qualifications as they relate to the requirements of the position under the consideration. These decisions are made without regard to age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic characteristics, race, color, creed, religion, ethnicity, national origin, alienage, citizenship, disability, marital status, military status, pregnancy, or any other legally-recognized protected basis prohibited by applicable law. Visit Kate Spade at www.katespade.com .