Hasbro - Pawtucket, RI
posted 28 days ago
At Hasbro, our mission is to entertain and connect generations of fans through the wonder of storytelling and exhilaration of play. We're looking for adventurous and curious people who want to explore, experiment, and innovate to come up with the best ideas. Our culture has inspired our diverse team of highly skilled, highly creative, and highly committed individuals for 100 years and we believe the best is yet to come. This role is responsible for leading the “Global Play Leader” (GPL) Brand, Global and Regional Marketing facing demand planning activities inclusive of Wave Planning, Assortments and Life Cycle Management impacts. For example, this role will determine the strategy for improving the demand forecast based on New Product Introductions (NPI) and End-of-Life processes. The primary objective of this role is to Improve the outcomes of customer satisfaction and brand reputation, ultimately driving sales and revenue growth through improved material forecasting, ensuring supply chain management and inventory control are optimized for the production line aggregated by global category. A day In The Life as a Director, Demand Planning - Global Categories includes improving forecasting, forecasting metrics and the efficiency of the forecast methodology through strong organizational coordination, automation, reliable data, and an analytics-based process at the global category level. You will deliver value at the global category level to the baseline forecast by coaching and establishing process & trainings for GPL/category-owners to provide insight for forecast value add (FVA) across regions with the demand planning application. It is essential to ensure GPL/category owners follow standardized processes to accurately make inputs and adjustments in a timely manner for activities that will impact demand integrated with the demand planning application at a recurring set cadence. Additionally, you will ensure a collaborative process of synthesizing input from a variety of category impacts, business units, and regions relying on data-driven processes using predictive analytics to reduce the impact of subjectivity. You will also develop optimum analytics & insights frameworks to underpin Demand management processes partnering with both BI teams & Analytics, Insights, and Measurements team (AIM). Supporting the monthly Global Demand Management Review (DMR) will be part of your responsibilities, rolling up from regional to drive unconstrained consensus forecast in Integrated Business Planning (IBP) cycle and downstream supply planning and execution processes. You will work in close relationship with the Global IBP Owner utilizing S&OP tools to bring guidelines / targets to the commercial demand planning function globally.