Demand Planner Manager Na

**Description**:
**The Estée Lauder Companies Inc.**is one of the world’s leading manufacturers, marketers, and sellers of quality skin care, makeup, fragrance, and hair care products, and is a steward of luxury and prestige brands globally. The company’s products are sold in approximately 150 countries and territories under brand names including: Estée Lauder, Aramis, Clinique, Lab Series, Origins, M-A-C, La Mer, Bobbi Brown Cosmetics, Aveda, Jo Malone London, Bumble and bumble, Darphin Paris, TOM FORD, Smashbox, AERIN Beauty, Le Labo, Editions de Parfums Frédéric Malle, GLAMGLOW, KILIAN PARIS, Too Faced, Dr.Jart+, the DECIEM family of brands, including The Ordinary and NIOD, and BALMAIN Beauty.

**What You’ll Do**:
The Demand Planner Manager NA requires cross-functional coordination between various groups, with emphasis on partnering with the Regional Demand Team, Product Marketing, Sales, Finance and CRSM. This role combines strategic planning and decision making with deep data insights and analysis. This role is responsible for developing, maintaining and improving a comprehensive Demand Plan to ensure seamless alignment of the Demand Plan with trends and expected activations/building blocks through the IBP process. This role needs to proactively identify and effectively manage exceptions, closely monitor performance to continually improve the quality and reliability of the Demand Plan.

**Responsibilities**:

- Partner with product managers, marketing & sales, analytics and financial teams to drive accurate demand planning and identify growth initiatives based on robust forecast models.
- Forecast and track sales performance.
- Own the actuals vs forecast and goal performance analysis, drive identification of root causes and plan mitigation measures for gaps.
- Share forecast assumptions and impact of strategic activities (sales drivers/commercial building blocks) to make the best forecast decisions.
- Drive implementation of tools and techniques for continuous forecast accuracy improvement by analyzing large datasets, identifying trends, dependencies, correlations.
- Present brand performance with business & operational leaders.
- Own the gap management alignment for the brand in NA.

**Qualifications**:

- Bachelor's degree in business-related or quantitative field (Supply Chain, Economics, Finance, Math, Engineering, or similar discipline)
- Direct experience: Minimum 5 years of related experience in Planning, preferably in a Demand Planning role
- Experience with advanced Excel
- Experience in shifting priorities, while maintaining organization and control
- Experience in strategic planning within emerging product categories
- Desirable experience in Tableau/Power BI/visualization tools
- Experience in communicating data-driven insights and recommendations to senior leaders
- Experience in large & complex global organizations
- Strong organizational skills, with ability to successfully prioritize and manage multiple accountabilities simultaneously.
- Experience with forecasting tools (e.g. o9, Forecast pro, Logility etc.)
- Experience with statistical forecasting methods and forecast accuracy metrics
- Experience with mature S&OP processes
- Ability to work within and across multiple functional teams, collaborating with Planning, Brand, Finance, Supply Chain and Commercial stakeholders.
- Ability to strategically identify and validate regional / affiliate industry trends and building blocks.
- Execution oriented - thrive under pressure with a demonstrated ability to get things done.
- Strong attention to detail - ability to accurately manage, update, maintain large datasets.