Manager, Demand Planning

Harry’s is a men’s grooming brand that offers high quality shave, body, hair, and skin care products at an exceptional value. Launched in 2013, Harry’s redefined the shaving experience and helped pioneer the earliest era of direct to consumer in the process. Since then, the brand has become the #2 shave brand globally and expanded to offer products for every step in its customer’s routine. Harry’s is also on a mission to ensure guys have access to quality mental health care. To date, the brand has helped connect over 2 million men to quality mental health resources.

Harry’s is part of Mammoth Brands, the modern CPG company behind category-leading brands Harry’s, Flamingo, Lume, Mando, and Coterie. Driven by a mission to “Create Things People Like More,”  the company is creating a new model—and home—for brands, founders, and talent looking to solve unmet needs, improve peoples’ lives and ultimately change the status quo. Even as we grow, we take extra care to maintain the small, scrappy, entrepreneurial culture that helped to get us where we are today: a company that people like more, that better serves its customers, employees, and community. Mammoth Brands is committed to making a positive impact and donated over $20 million through our network of nonprofit partners to date. 

The Global Demand Planning team at Harry’s is responsible for demand forecasting and is part of the Global Supply Chain organization. This team plays a critical role in ensuring efficient operational performance and in enabling senior management to make business-optimizing decisions through the Integrated Business Planning (IBP) process.

Own the monthly global demand planning process for Harry’s North American Retail Channels

• Be the expert on drivers behind the retail business by running monthly cross-functional meetings to gather input from stakeholders across the company
• Understand macro category dynamics across North America Retail and use this knowledge to inform forecasts for our brands
• Produce accurate demand forecasts by maintaining statistical forecasts and incorporating new data within Blue Yonder
• Collaborate with Supply Chain, FP&A and Commercial teams to determine the downstream implications of published demand forecasts
• Develop root cause analysis and forward actions for demand forecasting issues by SKU, category, channel and customer
• Own a total Brand performance perspective that incorporates multiple channel views into one, cohesive Brand story
• Serve as a Demand Planning expert and leader within our Supply Chain team

Manage projects that improve the accuracy and efficiency of our forecasting efforts:

• Develop content for the demand reviews and executive S&OP meeting to summarize the building blocks and key assumptions behind the forecast along with insights and recommendations
• Measure and report key accuracy metrics to continuously improve the forecasting process with the goal of maintaining an efficient and optimized supply chain process
• Become an expert in Demand Planning both internally and externally and active participant in knowledge sharing and training sessions with the team and the broader org
• Develop and continuously iterate on the SOP for a Demand Planner at Harry’s

Work cross-functionally with different levels of the organization:

• Work with strategy, sales and other functions to provide forecasts for new channel launches.
• Collaborate with the Marketing, Product and R&D teams to develop forecasts for new product launches
• Work closely with the cross-functional team on the annual budgeting and monthly reforecasting processes to provide visibility on revenue and growth
• Drive process change to monthly reforecasting cycles and implement strategies to simplify forecast updates
• Work with the FP&A, Strategy and Operations teams on revenue and margin gap improvement initiatives
• Have significant exposure to the Harry’s senior leadership and act as a thought partner on special projects and key business decisions

• 4-6 years of experience in Demand Planning, Sales Planning, Supply Chain, or other Business Operations function
• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint required
• Experience using demand planning and ERP software strongly preferred (Blue Yonder)
• Experience with S&OP or IBP strongly preferred
• Ability to manipulate data and insights to make recommendations
• Rigorously detail-oriented and produces exceptional deliverables
• Excellent ability to collaborate with multiple stakeholders to drive cross-functional consensus and results in the day-to-day business
• Strong work ethic; ability to independently own and drive projects
• Motivated to learn; asks insightful questions and fully embraces working in a fast-paced and dynamic environment
•  Sense of humor