Demand and Supply Planning Manager

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Job Description

Key responsibilities

1. Sales Performance monitoring & Forecasting

• Building reports on Metier performances by Store and On-line for the Retail Merchandising team at both aggregated and more granular level (e.g., by model supply chain)
• Liaising with Retail Merchandisers in the team to understand the performance drivers and synthetise for Senior Management on a weekly basis.
• Reforecasting Sales monthly for Retail Merchandisers
• Providing updated Sales forecasts for all Financial key reporting moments
• Liaising with Retail Supply Planning to feed Sales volume forecasting to plan the activity at the Warehouse and flows to stores.

2. Stock coverage monitoring & Forecasting

• Working closely with Finance, Retail Merchandisers and the Retail Supply Planner, building and sharing a MOS picture in value on all Metiers on a weekly basis to flag any risk of stock for sales performance.
• Updating and tracking ST performances on all seasonal Metiers along with the Seasonal Retail Merchandising team
• With the support of Europe and RM UK, building an updated stock forecast by Metier / Store monthly to identify any need to transfer out, reorder / transfer in or rebalance merchandise within Hermes GB from a Financial point of view and share with Retail Merchandisers and the Retail Supply Planner (using both TM1 Finance and Neo BI for more granularity)
• Include in this monthly exercise a projection of destocking amounts based on ST trends and latest destocking lists, as well as latest delivery rate assumptions elaborated with the Retail Supply Planner
• Share as and when these analyses with the Finance team at all key moments of the Financial calendar.
• Liaise with Retail Merchandising, Retail Supply Planning, Europe Sales Planning to take into account all key assumptions when building stock equation (trend of invoicing on PSI, opportunity to reorder on specific Metiers, etc.)
• Include central stock in calculations and make recommendations to the rest of the team in terms of stock optimisation
• Aiming to have both a quantitative and qualitative approach on the exercise

3. OTB and Buying management

• Collaborate with Retail Merchandisers to the definition of OTB for stores during Preview and Podium Group moments in line within the strategy of the subsidiary and Europe and with the stock objectives set for the current year
• Support with the building of detailed analytical tools to guide OTB spending during buying sessions
• Monitor and control reorders in line with budgeted stock levels
• Collaborate with the Retail planner to define stock management on Reorder metiers within the subsidiary

4. Tracking of stock movements vs. Financial Reporting / RM rolling Forecasting

• Tracking of Sales vs Reporting / rolling Forecasting
• Tracking of Invoicing vs Reporting / rolling OTBs broken down by type of order, supply chain model and season (actual and forecasted)
• Monitoring of Transfers in / out (stock and RAL) vs Reporting / rolling Forecasting

5. Planning of flows of merchandise

• Along with Retail Supply Planner for Ecommerce and Retail planning volumes of inbound / outbound and flows of replenishment / sales to final clients
• Tracking of Inbound and Outbound vs. Plan as well as Stock holding at warehouse / in stores

6. Ad'hoc analysis

• Support to the team on all analytical analyses for Store visits, Metier presentations, Buying Tools where needed
• Support to all projects involving forecasting

Competencies

• Ideally 7 years of Retail merchandise / Business planning / Financial controlling within a Retail / Ecommerce environment
• Highly analytical with exceptional organisational, communication and presentation skills
• Commercially aware with a passion for our products
• Advance knowledge of Microsoft Office, particularly Microsoft Excel
• Be influential, structured and pedagogic in their approach
• Detailed in their analyses but synthetic and action-focused when sharing with others
• Team player, with great interpersonal skills