Job Title Manager – Demand Planning

Division: Professional Products Division

Location: Hudson Yards, NY

Reports To: AVP US Planning

Who We Are:  

For more than a century, L’Oréal has devoted its energy, innovation, and scientific excellence solely to one business: Beauty. Our goal is to offer each and every person around the world the best of beauty in terms of quality, efficacy, safety, sincerity and responsibility to satisfy all beauty needs and desires in their infinite diversity.  

At L’Oréal Professional Products, our mission is to support hairdressers and develop the hair industry sustainably, and lead the digital transformation of our industry with a customer-centric approach. Our brands portfolio includes L’Oréal Professionnel, Kérastase, Redken, Matrix, and Pureology. 

What You Will Do: 

• Forecast product demand to the brand/sku level for the PPD Brands utilizing a statistical and collaborative planning tool. 
• Integrate business strategies to develop 15+ month demand plans with supporting analyses and assumptions for use in integrated business planning/sales and operations planning, supply planning and financial planning. 
• Facilitate the S&OP and demand submission for key accounts. Planning of Launch and Promotional activity including dimensioning, allocations, analysis and potential cannibalization. 
• Liaise with Sales, Supply Chain, Marketing and Finance organizations to facilitate the planning process, including running cross-functional Customer Consensus meetings.
• Leverage downstream brand data to drive forecast process. Establish a CPFR process with key accounts.
• As needed, provide forecast at a lower level of detail to support Demand Planning processes. Serve as Demand Planning representative as needed for Project Teams.
• Provide regular and ad-hoc analyses (e.g. in-month projections, anticipated account inventory buy-downs, etc.) to gain endorsement to the forecast at the Customer/Brand level, with a focus on Regular Flow Business, Promotions, and New Product Launches.
• Bias and forecast accuracy to be maintained within a tolerance.
• Drive meetings to alignment, using analysis and facilitation, and influencing skills.
• Follow up with clear and accurate messaging of expected volumes, vulnerabilities and opportunities as well as underlying assumptions.
• Provide continuous improvement to reporting (channel brand summaries automated to lower levels, streamlined in-month reporting and projections, etc.).
   

What We Are Looking For: 

Required Qualifications: 

• A minimum of a Bachelor's Degree in a related field.
• A minimum of 6 years of forecasting or equivalent Planning experience.
• Excellent math and critical thinking skills required, as well as the ability to communicate at the appropriate level of detail or summarization, given the audience and objective.
• Proven results running meetings where cross-functional decisions are needed and reached using analysis and facilitation skills.
• Mid to advanced Excel skills.

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Forecasting tool knowledge.
• ERP knowledge.

What’s In It For You: 

• Salary Range: $98,200-$137,500 (The actual compensation will depend on a variety of job-related factors which may include geographic location, work experience, education, and skill level) 
• Competitive Benefit Package (Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K, Pension Plan) 
• Hybrid Work Policy (3 Days in Office, 2 Days Work from Home) 
• Flexible Time Off (Paid Company Holidays, Paid Vacation, Vacation Buy Program, Volunteer Time, Summer Fridays & More!) 
• Access to Company Perks (VIP Access to L’Oréal’s Internal Shop for Discounted Products, Monthly Mobile Allowance) 
• Learning & Development Opportunities (Unlimited Access to E-learnings, Lunch & Learn Sessions, Mentorship Programs, & More!) 
• Employee Resource Groups (Think Tanks and Innovation Squads) 
• Access to Mental Health & Wellness Programs  

Don’t meet every single requirement? At L'Oréal, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and innovative workplace. If you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with the qualifications listed in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways! You may just be the right candidate for this or other roles!  

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and take pride in a diverse environment. We would love to find out more about you as a candidate and do not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, or other employment practices for reasons of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, marital or veteran status, medical condition or disability, or any other legally protected status. 

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