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Edgewell Personal Care

Senior Demand Planner

Edgewell Personal Care, Milford, Connecticut, United States, 06466

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Sr Talent Acquisition Partner, Global TA at Edgewell Personal Care Edgewell is not just a company, but a vibrant global community of

6,800 visionaries, doers, and makers . Our family of over

25 personal care brands

serves people in more than

50 countries . We are dedicated to infusing joyfulness into every aspect of our work. Our pledge goes beyond our products, with our fundamental value of

People First

guiding us to foster a diverse, inclusive, and respectful environment where every team member can flourish and celebrate our shared achievements.

Position Summary Senior Demand Planner is responsible for the total U.S. forecast within their respective customers, focused on sales and marketing forecast assumptions. This role builds relationships with sales and marketing partners to collaborate and align on marketing and commercial intelligence, applying promotional, distribution, cannibalization, and competitive forecast impacts to the Demand Consensus forecast. The individual gathers key input from cross‑functional partners and challenges assumptions to drive improved forecast accuracy. The Senior Demand Planner represents demand planning and promotes its good practice and strategy with key business stakeholders. This role supports the Manager in preparation and leading all demand meetings in support of the NA S&OP and subsequently the Global S&OP. This role will serve as the lead and be accountable in demand planning initiatives and training related to the promotional forecasting functions and the improvement of the S&OP process.

This opportunity will have a hybrid schedule at any of the following locations: Shelton, CT; Milford, CT; New York, CT.

Accountabilities

Own the process to manage and review Sales and Marketing forecast inputs and projections to develop the monthly forecast.

Collaborate on input from marketing on consumption trends, seasonality, and competitive activity for forecast impact assumptions.

Collaborate on input from sales on promotional forecasts on finished goods and displays, distribution gains and losses, POG changes, and new product launches.

Develop and manage event‑based data that impacts the forecast including historical data, new product projections, promotion lifts, specific customer/channel trends, etc.

Report forecast accuracy and root cause on promotional forecasts and new product introductions, driving actions for improvement to hit accuracy targets.

Collaboration with Base Forecasting

Enter commercial intelligence into JDA Demand / Manugistics and collaborate with Base Forecasting team on impacts to statistical forecast.

Focus on forecast detail for fiscal year. Apply strategic assumptions in 12 months beyond fiscal year to align with company strategy.

Support Base Forecasting team in analysis of forecasts and forecast error reports to improve forecast accuracy, bias, out of stocks, SLOBs, inventory issues.

Collaborate with Base Forecasting team on historical impacts, new product set up and forecast, cannibalization assumptions, competitive activity and forecast impact, promo analysis, distribution changes, like item assignments, risks and opportunities, and product allocation in case of capacity constraints.

Collaboration with Stakeholders

Serve as the single contact between Sales and Marketing and Fulfillment.

Participate in all appropriate brand and commercial team meetings and serve as the key liaison for assigned brands between Sales/Marketing and Fulfillment.

Validate and challenge and align on Sales and Marketing assumptions.

Support customer service by providing demand information for CS proactively to support delivery to customers.

Collaborate with Sales and Marketing on SLOBs inventory goals and liquidation of inventory.

Focus and report on forecast gaps to Plan, Risks and Ops to Plan, key drivers and gap closing.

CoE / S&OP

Own and Lead Demand Consensus meeting (S&OP) including deck preparation, key drivers for changes through appropriate waterfalls, gaps to plan, risks and ops, action items, demand group alignment.

Ensure consensus with Sales and Marketing and sign‑off of demand forecast as output of Demand Consensus meeting and elevation to Regional S&OP meeting for VP sign‑off.

Support Demand CoE roadmap projects for forecast improvement, delivering required strategic improvements and maintaining aligned demand processes.

Lead Demand Planning projects related to promotional and event forecasting and S&OP.

Required Skills and Experience

5+ years of experience in Demand Planning or Forecasting.

BA/BS required (Supply Chain, Engineering, Mathematics, Business).

Technical aptitude and forecasting and data software experience required (i.e. JDA Demand/Manugistics, SAP, PowerBI, Syndicated data/Nielsen etc.).

CPG experience a plus.

Key competencies: Business Acumen, Strategic Thinking, Influencing Others, Building Relationships.

Intermediate to advanced skills working in Excel and Powerpoint.

Preferred Skills

Experience MBA.

Seniority Level Associate

Employment Type Full‑time

Job Function Supply Chain

Industries Personal Care Product Manufacturing and Manufacturing

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Inferred from the description for this job Medical insurance

Vision insurance

401(k)

Paid maternity leave

Paid paternity leave

Disability insurance

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