Sr. Analyst, Market Planning Retail Hair
CA, US
Position Title: Senior Analyst, Market Planning Professional Hair
Location: Calabasas, CA, USA
Reports to: Senior Manager, Business Planning
Work Arrangement: Hybrid (Mon, Wed, Thurs. in office)
ABOUT THE WELLA COMPANY
Together, WE enable individuals to look, feel, and be their true selves.
Wella Company is one of the world’s leading beauty companies, comprised of a family of iconic brands such as Wella Professionals, Clairol, OPI, Nioxin and ghd. With 6,000 employees globally, presence in over 100 countries, Wella Company and its brands enable consumers to look, feel, and be their true selves. As innovators in the hair and nail industry, Wella Company empowers its people to delight consumers, inspire beauty professionals, engage communities, and deliver sustainable growth to its stakeholders.
For additional information about the Wella Company please visit www.wellacompany.com.
THE ROLE
The Sr. Analyst position is responsible for ensuring appropriate inventory levels to support the market demand plan and strategy. Establish strategic collaboration with factories and global deployment team to ensure network supply strategies including inventory policies are established with service, cost, and cash balance. Have a focus to ensure excess and obsolete inventory is always not created. Provide regular market facing supply and service analysis including top projected missed dollars and actions plans along with historical analysis and gap to targets.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
• Weekly Inventory analysis and FR risk outlook preparation,
• Supporting Sr. Manager with analysis on product availability status - data extraction from JDA/SAP and other sources
• Collaboration with Demand Planner – understand the forecasting process and actively challenge/influence the building blocks that impact production and delivery of product
• Collaboration with multifunctional team – focused on understanding current brand & channel strategies/needs and providing product availability context/watchouts
• Proactive communication of potential supply crisis, developing risk mitigation proposals and executing allocation plans in the market.
• Prepare and communicate supply outlook and critical risks/opportunities to commercial team on a regular basis
• Phase-In & Phase Out codes tracking and stock management
• Contribute to reduction of E&O stock in collaboration with Trade Marketing and Planning Hub - develop a deep understanding of supply chain limitations and opportunities and actively engaging other teams to deplete excess stock and optimize initiatives execution
• Challenge production/deployment plan when required
• Drive alignment of safety/cycle stock parameters, minimum order quantities, and other system parameters to improve the inventory coverage within the region
• Collaboration with the Planning Hub on production prioritization to ensure market needs are reflected & Fill Rate is on target
• Participate in daily / weekly and monthly connects with all critical business partners
• Ensuring successful Initiatives execution in the market, in collaboration with Market Initiative Planner and other functions, proactive risk mitigation plans, reducing PIPO disruption impact on daily availability for orders and balancing Phase Out and Phase In inventory.
QUALIFICATIONS
Essential:
- Education: BA/ BS in Economics, Business Administration, Supply Chain Management, Data Analytics or related field
- Experience: 3-5+ years’ experience in supply planning, demand planning, project management, data analytics, and/or production management
- Technical Skills: MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Vision
- Experience owning measures and improving results
- Strong analytical and project management skills required, including a thorough understanding of how to interpret customer business needs and translate them into application and operational requirements.
- Communication skills: Ability to communicate clearly, transparently, concisely, and on a timely basis with leadership. Comfortable with dealing with conflict and issue resolution
- Ability to challenge and refine business process and/or data requirements
- Aptitude for problem solving; proven ability to create, implement and measure new processes
- Collaboration Skills: Ability to work collaboratively across different styles. Develop strong partnerships. Must be able to work well with people not physically collocated.
Desirable:
- Education: MBA/MS degree preferred
- Technical Skills: SQL
- CPG industry experience a plus
We disclose the compensation range for positions in compliance with local law. Actual salaries will vary and may be above or below the range based on various factors including but not limited to location, experience, skills and in comparison to internal incumbents currently in similar roles. Pay Range: $75,000 - $100,000 salary per year. The range listed is just one component of Wella Company's total rewards package for employees. Other rewards may include annual bonus plan or variable pay, depending on the role. In addition, Wella Company provides a rich variety of benefits to employees, including health insurance, life and disability insurance, 401(k) retirement plan, paid holidays and paid time off (PTO).
NOTICES
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, or other legally protected status.
If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, please email NA.Recruiting@wella.com. This email account will not respond to inquiries regarding the status of a candidate’s application.
[For CA located postings ONLY]: Qualified Applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.
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