PetSmart · 18 hours ago
Sr Demand Planner
Phoenix, AZ
Full-time
Hybrid
Mid, Senior Level
4+ years expPetSmart is a leading pet supply retailer, and they are seeking a Sr Demand Planner to manage end-to-end inventory management. This role involves partnering with vendors and internal teams to optimize sales, margin, and inventory turnover while implementing best practices for growth.
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Responsibilities
Achieves Sales, Margin, and Inventory Turnover and other KPIs as designated to plan
Develop overall divisional strategy, policies, resources, and execution plans to align to 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 key promotional periods
Ensures 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
Required
Must have a Bachelor's degree from a 4 year college or university; or 4 -6 years 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!
On-site Dog Park
"Top Dog" gym with equipment, fitness classes, massage therapists and personal trainers
"Sit & Stay" Café serving fresh breakfast and lunch options
On-site coffee bar
"Lil' Paws" learning center and onsite daycare facility (associate paid)
Volunteer events with PetSmart Charities
Company
PetSmart
PetSmart is an e-commerce business that offers pet supplies, medications, grooming solutions, and adoption services.
10001+ employees
Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$2.71BKey Investors
Apollo
2025-08-08Debt Financing· $2.7B
2023-07-24Secondary Market
2014-11-18Acquired
Leadership Team
Ken Hicks
CEO
Alan Schnaid
EVP and Chief Financial Officer
Recent News
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2025-11-14
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