Director, Demand Planning - Marketplace Partnerships
Required skills
- Demand Planning
- Forecasting
- Inventory Management
- Amazon
- Retail Dynamics
- Excel
- Purchase Orders
- SKU
Nice to have
- Marketplace Partnerships
- Catapult
- Walmart.com
- TikTok Shop
Role summary
Front Row is seeking a Director of Demand Planning for its Marketplace Partnerships team. This role involves creating and managing sales and inventory forecasts for various marketplace brands, reacting to sales trends, and minimizing stockouts and excess inventory. The ideal candidate will have 3+ years of experience in forecasting, planning, and inventory management, with a strong understanding of retail dynamics, particularly on Amazon. Advanced Excel skills and the ability to build cross-functional relationships in a fast-paced environment are essential. This is an onsite role based in New York City.
At Front Row, we partner with leading brands to accelerate their ecommerce growth. We leverage our capabilities and proprietary technology to design, market, distribute and accelerate brands on a global scale. We’re continually cultivating functional areas of expertise and retaining the highest caliber of talent — while sharing knowledge and data, creating efficiencies, and looking at every aspect of our client’s business from a 360 perspective. We work effectively to give every client the hands-on support, niche knowledge, and first-access they need to win in the world’s most competitive commerce markets and make each of our six capabilities the first to act on the next big things.
We live for the exchange of energy between brands and audiences, you should too, and we’ve made it our mission to expand every brand’s market share and heart share. Because we believe every transaction has the potential to be transformational.
We leverage data-driven insights from Catapult, our proprietary technology, and our deep understanding of marketplaces like Amazon, Walmart.com, TikTok Shop, to craft strategies unique to each brand we work with while protecting their pricing and channel strategies at every lifecycle stage and in any global market.
Intro:
Our team works with clients and cross functionally to forecast sales and inventory needs for an exciting group of items and categories across all of the marketplace brands!
Description:
Create and manage SKU intensive sales and purchase forecasts
React to current sales trends to meet inventory turn goals
Create weekly purchase orders with the goal to minimize out of stocks and prevent the risk of excess inventory
Monitor current performance throughout the month identifying changing trends and proactively adjust the forecast
Ability to build strong cross-functional relationships and thrive in a fast pace environment
Requirements:
3+ years of forecasting, planning, and inventory management experience
Strong interest in Amazon and understanding of retail dynamics
Advanced knowledge of Sales & Operations Planning procedures
Strong attention to detail and advanced in excel
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Benefits:
Health, dental, and vision
PTO
Summer Fridays
Wellness and commuter benefits
Work with a fun, consultative team of experts
Location - headquartered in SoHo, New York City with offices in San Diego, Hamburg and Bratislava
SALARY - $100,000-$100,000
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