Demand Planner

PetSmart - Phoenix, AZ

Full-time - Mid Level

Phoenix, AZ

Sporting Goods, Hobby, Musical Instrument, Book, and Miscellaneous Retailers

About the position

As a Demand Planner at PetSmart, you will play a crucial role in managing inventory and ensuring that the right products are available to meet store sales demands. This position involves forecasting inventory needs, managing purchase orders, and collaborating with various teams to optimize inventory turnover and fill rates. Your strategic insights and execution will directly impact sales, margin, and overall inventory management, making you an integral part of the merchandising team.

Responsibilities

• Achieves Sales, Margin, Inventory Turnover, and other KPIs as outlined in Plan and Forecast
• 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, customer, and merchandising segments
• Use consumer insights and data combined with a structured test and learn approach to maximize growth opportunities
• Leads, initiates and measure performance against the business planning and product creation calendars to initiate timely and informed decision making
• Supports the VP & Director to present within various strategic meetings for the division
• Owns the end-to-end management of demand planning and allocation optimization, including in-stock and service levels for funded items and promotional product
• Ensure department and sku level planning reflects unique store and merchandise assortments, including localization
• Leads the development and execution of demand planning, including information sharing and problem solving with vendors
• Responsible for the creation, accuracy, communication and management of vendor demand plans
• Actively create and lead special projects that create 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

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree from a 4 year college or university
• 2+ years inventory demand planning experience
• Intermediate to advanced knowledge of Excel, Microstrategy, Outlook, SAP and Relex Replenishment System

Benefits

• Pet friendly environment
• Work-life balance and family events
• Access to gym with equipment and fitness classes
• Onsite daycare facility
• Volunteer events with PetSmart Charities