Demand Planner

Job Type

PetSafe Brands, formerly known as Radio Systems Corporation, is headquartered in Knoxville, TN. It has been named “The Marble City” and "Scruffy City", names we have embraced for our unique charm. We are the home of 1982 World’s Fair and we boast of 21 craft breweries around the city (click here for the Ale Trail). If you like to hike or camp, visit the Great Smokey Mountain National Park. Take your pick of outdoor activities from walking, tubing, running, or biking in our Urban Wilderness. Knox County has an amazing public-school system, no state income tax, low property taxes and cost of living. We host Music and Shakespeare on the Square as well as Family Movie Nights on the Square during the summer months in downtown Knoxville.

Our Company: PetSafe Brands is the world leader in pet products through our family of brands:Pet Safe® Brand, Sport DOG® Brand, Invisible Fence® Brand, Kurgo and Premier Pet. Pet Safe® Brand makes every product from leashes and harnesses to water fountains and and litter boxes. We have an ambitious goal of touching over 21 million pets, people, and communities around the world each year. We serve a broad range of pet owners from providing the hunter the best gear for a successful hunt to accommodating the “Not-So-Crazy Cat Lady” with all the entertaining toys and effective solutions she could ever imagine. We do this by creating a culture of enthusiasm, resilience, adaptability, and teamwork every day in the office. We work hard to be our community’s employer of choice as we all live our purpose: We exist to unleash freedom for pet parents by keeping their pets happy, healthy and safe. 

Summary
This role is viewed as the go-to contact for all things supply chain from the time we recognize demand until product arrives in our warehouse and ships to our customers. You will interact with teammates around the globe on a regular basis to align on sales promotions, new product load in, gaps in supply plans, component shortages, and wall to Wall inventory concerns. You will frequently work with category, Sales and FP&A team’s gathering intel and data you can use to update and maintain forecast and financial plans in multiple time horizon’s.
 

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Responsible for driving and executing the monthly demand forecasting process.
• Ensure alignment with supply planners, sales & category directors/managers.
• Develop and Maintain Demantra (Forecast) baseline forecast, and sales ship plans using external data from Retailer POS and Inventory reports located in Tableau dashboards 
• Responsible for forecast accuracy, bias, Inventory, SKU strategies and metrics.
• Contribute to monthly S&OP (Sales and Operations Planning), with Director Supply Chain
  • Proactively align supply & demand imbalances and collaborate with Director Supply Chain Planning to identify gap closing actions.
  • Inventory Management strategies t, maintains optimal operating inventory levels for the managed categories (key performance metrics)
  • Collaborate with category to align on proper right inventory levels by category, SKU class and safety stock levels.
  • Ensure supply allocation in S&OP (Sales and Operations Planning), targets accounts for right sizing of inventory in the tactical horizon (3mths-6mths)
  • Ensuring Finished Goods Inventory optimization i.e. inventory turns
  • Guiding and supporting development of dashboards and analytics
  • Drive Improvement Activities/Projects in Demand and Supply processes and practices

QUALIFICATIONS:

• A Bachelor's degree is required or equivalent experience
• Requires a minimum of 2-4 years of progressively responsible business-related experience, consumer goods experience preferred
• Prior supply/demand planning experience required
• Demonstrated project planning and execution experience
• Experienced engagement and collaboration with internal and external stakeholders

ACCOUNTABILITIES:

• Forecast Accuracy & BIAS
• Category Customer Service Metrics (Fill Rates)
• Category Inventory Management & Turns
• RSC Supply Chain Systems and Processes
• Demand Analysis, Management / Forecast

RELATIONSHIPS:

Reports to the Director Supply Chain Planning. Position regularly interacts with Sales Managers, Category Directors & Managers, Product Managers, Configuration Management, Logistics, Order Management, Replenishment Buyer Planners, and Finance.

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BENEFITS:

Working for PetSafe Brands definitely has its benefits. We offer a collaborative and creative team-oriented work environment where we encourage you to take risks to learn and grow! We offer a competitive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, and 401K match. In addition we offer a rich wellness program which includes an onsite health clinic, workout facility and of course, we encourage you to bring your dog to work, which is our whole reason for what we do!

PetSafe Brands is dedicated to offering equal employment opportunity for all teammates and fostering a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. At PetSafe Brand, our teammates are our greatest strength. We strive to build a workforce as diverse as the customers we serve by hiring great people from a wide variety of backgrounds, life experiences, knowledge, self-expression and talent. We recruit and reward teammates based on capability and performance and together we are building a culture that welcomes all dimensions of an individual’s identity including race, color, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, age, educational background, national origin or ancestry, religion, veteran status, or physical ability. We embrace these differences and the unique contributions each teammate brings not just because it is the right thing to do but because it makes our company stronger. While we are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace and a culture of belonging, we recognize that we still have more work to do and a lot more to learn.