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PetSmart · 1 month ago

Senior Demand Planner

Phoenix, Arizona

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level

PetSmart is a leading pet retailer dedicated to creating meaningful experiences for pets and their families. As a Senior Demand Planner, you will partner with various teams to manage inventory, sales forecasts, and vendor relationships, ensuring optimal stock levels and driving growth for the company.

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Responsibilities

Achieves Sales, Margin, and Inventory Turnover and other KPIs as designated to plan

Develop overall division strategy vision, policies, resources, and execution plans to align to the corporate strategy

Participates in the seasonal, annual, and long-range strategic and financial planning across a wide array of vendor (direct and external), customer, and merchandising segments

Use consumer insights and data combined with a structured test and learn approach to maximize growth opportunities

Leads, executes and measure performance against the business planning and product creation calendars to drive timely and informed decision making

Supports the VP & Director to present within various strategic meetings for the division (i.e. Open-To-Buy, Vendor, QBR, and other meetings)

Owns the end-to-end management of demand planning and allocation optimization, including in-stock and service levels for funded items and promotional product; set targets and achieves plans for inventory and space productivity required to support the sales, gross margin and in-stock plans, maintain high levels of promotional product availability during promotional periods while minimizing ad residue, and optimizing end-caps, drive aisle, and in-line story telling and integration consistent with consumer shopping patterns

Ensure department and sku level planning reflects unique store and merchandise assortments, including localization, that allows for sharp transition between selling periods

Leads the development and execution of demand planning, including information sharing and problem solving with vendors around purchase orders, capacities, forecasting, and network inventory flow and optimization

Responsible for the creation, accuracy, communication and management of vendor demand plans

Responsible for management and maintenance of order policy and all business metrics within

Actively create and lead special projects that drive growth opportunities

Integrate processes and systems to optimize accuracy, efficiency, inventory productivity, space utilization, and margin optimization

Coordinates the timely response to questions from the stores and management regarding product level availability

Qualification

Demand PlanningInventory ManagementVendor RelationsSAPRelexSpreadsheet ProficiencyAnalytical SkillsTeam CollaborationCommunication Skills

Required

Must have a Bachelor's degree from a 4 year college or university; or one to two year replenishment experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience

Intermediate to advanced knowledge of spreadsheets, word processing, decision support software, Outlook as well as SAP and Relex (or similar demand systems) are helpful

Benefits

Pet-friendly environment, bring your pets to work and enjoy the on-site dog park!

On-Site Events & Adoptions, enjoy community-building opportunities, including pet adoption days, seasonal celebrations, family events, art events, & holiday festivals

"Top Dog" gym with equipment, fitness classes, massage therapists, personal trainers, and wellness spaces

"Sit & Stay" Café serving fresh breakfast and lunch options, snacks, & more

"Lil Paws" NAEYC-accredited onsite childcare facility providing high-quality early education

Paid Volunteer Opportunities to spend time doing good for causes close to heart

Print Center and Business Services, Dry Cleaning, Mother's Rooms, Sustainable Infrastructure & more