Demand Planner

About Kinetic Brands

Unconventional brands for unconventional people.

Kinetic is a full-stack brand incubator owning a portfolio of digital brands. The brands we build are the opposite of basic. Each brand has a distinct identity, memorable product, and cult following. Through our full-stack infrastructure (meaning we manage everything in-house–including fulfillment, supply chain, R&D, marketing, and development), we can go first to market with any brand concept and create something truly bespoke that stands out even in the most crowded of industries.

About the Role

We're looking for a talented and driven Demand Planner to join our growing team. You'll have the opportunity to make an immediate impact within the supply chain team across several brands in our portfolio. The role will lead building our demand planning function to support optimizing our brands’ revenue, purchasing strategy, inventory levels and SC flow. This is a startup environment, so there's lots of room to make a big impact and grow.

You will

• Own all top-down & bottom-up direct to consumer product forecasting; incorporating strategically driven formulas and tools to support launches, trends, promotions and seasonality
• Support syncing item and launch level forecasts to correspond and support financial & marketing goals
• Create performance reporting; weekly, promotional, launch & monthly basis - close inventory gaps
• Develop and manage of new supply & demand processes and planning tools
• Lead S&OP meetings focused around supply and demand patterns
• Serve as the system expert for demand & supply planning system(s)
• Support manufacturing and inventory scheduling (raws, semi-finished goods, finished goods) in syncing forecasting productions with planning action
• Coordinate with multiple teams to ensure accurate scheduling that aligns to both the capabilities and needs of the business
• Other projects/responsibilities/SC Analytics as needed

You have

• BA/BS in Supply Chain, Business Analytics, Finance, Industrial Engineering, or similar
• 3+ years of experience in Demand Planning or Forecasting
• Experience working with D2C forecasting
• Robust communication, presentation and time management skills
• Strong leadership skills — you’re motivated, take initiative and are nimble to drive output across various departments and projects
• Detail-oriented and quality-obsessed — nothing is too small to understand and improve
• Strong organization skills
• Efficiency-driven — always identifying and streamlining processes
• Adaptable & Solutions oriented — comfortable with ambiguity and fast to adjust to changing circumstances
• Proactive about driving continual improvements
• Experienced in using Microsoft products (Word, PowerPoint, Excel) & G Suite products (Docs, Sheets, Slides)
• Beauty or color cosmetics industry experience a plus
• Able to hit the ground running in a fast-paced, dynamic startup environment

Perks

• Excellent medical, dental and vision benefits so you don’t have to worry about it!
• Unlimited PTO. If you need time off take it, we trust you! (and FYI we have minimum use requirements)
• 12 Weeks Paid Parental Leave and 4 weeks modified return to work program to ease you back into the flow!
• 401k with 4% company match
• Home Office expense reimbursement
• Generous employee discount

Work environment

• This role is required to be onsite at our Passaic, NJ warehouse 1-2 days a week

Kinetic Brands is an equal opportunity employer — we believe being successful is directly tied to creating a collaborative, diverse, and inclusive environment.