Demand Planner

Overview

A world leader in innovative, casual footwear, Crocs, Inc., is dedicated to the future of comfort. Our original and most famous style, the Classic Clog, is instantly recognized around the world — and for good reason: since 2002, we’ve sold more than 600 million pairs in over 90 countries! We achieved our status as a global leader in the casual footwear category by taking an inherently simple approach to uniting style, modern comfort, and value. Every day, we make a choice to have an open mind and look on the bright and colorful side of life. We embrace and celebrate the uniqueness in everyone, inviting the world to Come As You Are!

In February of 2022, Crocs, Inc. acquired HEYDUDE. Here at HEYDUDE, we are a team of Go-To's who work together to embrace and embody our brand values in everything we do. We dare boldly, putting progress over perfection to bring our consumers and fans the most comfortable shoes on the planet. We aim to be steadfast and engage genuinely with our consumers and each other. We keep it simple, welcome all, and strive to have a “Hey Day!”

The Demand Planner is meant to coordinate activity across the functional and time spectrums to deliver mid/long term Demand Plan to ensure profitable business growth and in-stock levels for Core product. This role is responsible for driving cross-functional collaboration with key commercial partners to align upon demand review/consolidation plan, in season coordination, and MFP process seasonal hand off to the channel.

What You'll Do

• Own the Demand Plan for a given Sales Channel in Americas Region by adjusting and aligning with commercial needs as we approach seasonal buy execution.
• Interpret changes in buying process into product investment – both increases and decreases to optimize balance of revenue with inventory in support of company goals.
• Place enhanced focus on New Product / Key Product initiatives; align and coordinate core / important carryover seasonal items with core planning and supply teams.
• Lead the efforts of inventory and supply planning to proactively manage in-stock levels.
• Propose seasonal and in season stocking strategies to commercial leads to balance margin / revenue generation with optimal working capital levels.
• Coordinate actions upstream into supply chain to monitor, adjust and troubleshoot supply lines as well as optimize inventory across the Americas Region for a given sales channel.
• Participate in consolidation needs for the regional demand plan.
• Make significant contributions to the regional demand review.
• Leverage regional IBP/S&OP to coordinate and inform key demand insights into cross-functional teams.
• Work closely with Global MFP team to understand and shepherd seasonal plans into region-channel enriched plans.
• Coordinate activity with regional merchandisers to ensure the priorities and focus of the region-channel is clearly captured in all MFP related tools and updates.
• Participate as needed in IBP/Seasonal Plan Alignment and other meetings to represent priorities of the Americas sales channel.

What You'll Bring to the Table

• Bachelor’s degree in business, finance or related field or equivalent experience in relevant fields.
• 3 years planning OTB / Demand; highly desirable to be within a multichannel setting particularly in the apparel/footwear business.
• Demand Planning & OTB experience is required.
• Familiarization with Inventory and Service level planning.
• Experience in Merchandising Financial Planning process and/or Integrated Business Planning.
• Must have extensive experience and proficiency in Excel tools and functionality.
• Experience with MFP, Demand Planning systemic solutions; ideally with o9 Solutions.

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