Hybrid Senior Manager, Product Planning

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About the role

  • Lead the Product Planning team and evolve processes to meet the needs of a complex business. This includes all demand plans for our North America Business (ecom, Amazon, and brick & mortar) as well as global supply planning.
  • Frequently present to the executive leadership team. This includes weekly business reviews and monthly business reviews.
  • Responsible for the monthly re-forecasting and open to buy (OTB) processes to ensure product flow will meet sales and margin objectives.
  • Manage all aspects of US inventory management throughout the entire supply chain, including production forecasting to ensure product plans account for constraints such as capacity and MOQs at each factory.
  • Collaborate with factories in Asia and our Vietnam-based Allbirds team to resolve production related issues.
  • Work with Merchandising and channel leads (ECOM + B&M) to ensure inventory investment is aligned with seasonal product and marketing strategies.
  • Partner with warehousing and logistics to ensure production forecasts and unit sales plans are accounted for correctly throughout the supply chain
  • Lead and mentor a team of product planners
  • Manage launch plans for new products and promotional campaigns.
  • Lead weekly cross-functional sales, inventory and operations meetings.
  • Establish reporting tools to consistently monitor and report out on new products readiness, post-launch performance and inventory service levels.

Requirements

  • BA/BS or equivalent, with quantitative focus
  • 7+ years of prior inventory planning, merchandise planning or supply/demand planning experience, preferably in the apparel or footwear industry.
  • 4+ year of managerial experience
  • Strong ability to build relationships and partner with key stakeholders across the business, including executive leadership
  • Organized and able to multi-task and perform in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
  • Self-starter and enjoy a ‘blank canvas’ and building processes in a fast-paced environment.
  • Able to both think strategically and execute tactically, a persistent attention to detail, and a high level of comfort in working with numbers.
  • Excellent communicator and have the ability to quickly grasp new concepts while asking appropriate questions when information or instruction is not entirely clear.
  • Comfortable with presenting to an executive level audience.
  • Strong coach and able to mentor junior team members
  • Advanced Excel and modeling skills
  • Experience using Looker & Google Sheets a plus
  • Deep analytical mindset, and problem-solving acumen
  • Experience in product planning, inventory management and/or supply chain operations a must
  • Knowledge of ERP systems / SAP a plus + additional planning tools (Anaplan)

Benefits

  • Health benefits include Medical, Dental, and Vision plans for employees and eligible dependents.
  • 100% Company paid OneMedical memberships available for members of certain medical plans.
  • Company HSA contribution for enrolled HSA members.
  • Financial benefits include: company equity for eligible roles, 401(k) with employer matching contribution (with immediate vesting and pre and post-tax options), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, company-paid life insurance for full time roles, short-term and long-term disability, pre-tax savings programs for eligible healthcare, childcare and commuter expenses for both full and part-time roles, medical travel expense reimbursement program for full and part-time roles.
  • Unlimited PTO for full-time corporate roles, sick and vacation time for other roles, plus parental leave (with a new parent bonus for full-time employees), volunteering, medical & family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting.
  • Employee Assistance Program and more.
  • Other Perks include: the company discount (50%) on most Allbirds products, discount mall through LifeBalance, reimbursement on eligible wellness expenses (full-time employees) and cellphone and more for certain eligible roles.

Job title

Senior Manager, Product Planning

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

$142,000 - $155,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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