Demand Planner – Nanit
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Nanit (, 2 Yr Employee Growth Rate)
1-Year Employee Growth Rate | 2-Year Employee Growth Rate | LinkedIn | $0 Venture Funding
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About Nanit:
The team behind Nanit are experts in those first precious moments of your baby’s life. The company provides products and services that help parents stay informed on their baby’s health, safety and well-being through smarter and better use of technology. In 2016, the Nanit baby monitor revolutionized the industry with computer vision and machine learning capabilities that helped parents help their babies sleep better. Now, the company has become the leader in the connected nursery space, with an incredible customer base of highly-engaged new parents who look to Nanit as a source of information and expertise on their parenting journey.
About the Role:
We are seeking a talented demand planner to ensure our company’s operations are timely, efficient, and cost-effective. You will assist in all demand planning duties including estimating future product demand, analyzing inventory flow, and developing forecast models.
What you will be doing:
- Review historical sales trends, research demand drivers, prepare forecast data, develop statistical forecast models, and evaluate forecast results.
- Create forecasts at the SKU level to inform performance and purchases—identify trends and risks/opportunities to present back to the Sales and Marketing teams.
- Establish and effectively communicate out of stock thresholds for both DTC (Direct to Consumer) and WS (Wholesale) business channels.
- Support management with risk assessments and mitigation activities.
- Propose and implement solutions to improve demand forecast accuracy.
- Successfully communicate forecast and inventory estimations to management.
- Monitor and report on important changes in sales forecasts, budgets, and business strategies.
- Conduct monthly forecast maintenance.
- Address demand-related issues in a timely and effective manner.
- Coordinate research activities to reconcile variances and refine the forecast model to reflect updated sales and marketing assumptions.
- Work with sales and marketing to understand demand forecast drivers.
- Use a collaborative and agreement approach by working with Sales, Marketing and Supply Chain to obtain and ensure that current and accurate information is used for demand forecasts.
- Review sales plans, customer budget updates or latest estimates and demand drivers.
What we are looking for:
- 2 years + of experience in CPG forecasting, retail analytics or retail management
- Bachelor’s degree in related field or equivalent industry training and experience
- Familiar with the use of ERP systems (Netsuite a plus)
- Familiar with building statistical forecasting models
- Proficiency with Google Sheets, Excel, Gmail, and retailer portals
- Excellent analytical and organization skills
- Ability to work both autonomously and within a team environment under minimal supervision
- Forward thinker and self-starter who can follow directions but will also go the extra step
Why Nanit?
- Nanit products can actually change lives. We’re an integral part of the lives of new parents, making an exciting but stressful time a little more manageable.
- We are international and believe our diversity makes our culture, products and brand even better.
- We invest in our people. We consider each employee a long-term investment and we see value in continuously helping them to advance in their lives and careers
- Nanit is a fun, collaborative group of hard workers! We believe in an appropriate work-life balance, and offer a flexible, open environment.
- We are at the forefront of innovation, creating products and services that have never been seen before.
We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We provide employment opportunities without regard to age, race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, disability, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other protected class.