Lead Demand Planner

Dollar Shave Club • Durham, NC

13h • $100,000 - $110,000 • Remote

About The Position

The Lead Demand Planner owns end-to-end demand forecasting for all items and categories across Dollar Shave Club, including the newly acquired Truly Beauty business. This role leads and facilitates all Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) meetings, builds best-in-class forecasting methodologies and ways of working as Truly Beauty is integrated onto DSC’s planning systems, and maintains communication and decision-making relationships with stakeholders at all levels of the organization, from cross-functional partners through executive leadership.

Requirements

• 4+ years of direct Demand Planning or related Supply Planning/CPFR/Operations experience
• Experience working in the Supply Chain industry
• Direct experience in demand planning, forecast consolidation, leading S&OP processes, and driving planning system transitions or implementations.
• Experience forecasting a multi-brand/multi-category portfolio; exposure to onboarding an acquired business’s planning function preferred.
• Demand planning systems (e.g., Stock IQ, NetSuite, or comparable ERP), experience with planning system implementations/migrations, advanced Microsoft Excel, S&OP leadership
• Statistical forecasting tools; experience integrating systems/processes across an acquired business
• Strong communication skills with the ability to tailor messages and drive decisions with stakeholders at all levels, including executive and board-level leadership; highly collaborative; strong analytical and organizational skills

Nice To Haves

• exposure to onboarding an acquired business’s planning function preferred

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end demand forecasting for all items and categories across DSC and Truly Beauty, including item-level forecast development, consolidation, and consensus building with cross-functional partners, to deliver against industry-standard KPIs (MAPE, Bias) and improve forecast accuracy, fill rates, and in-stock targets.
• Own and lead all Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) meetings end to end — scheduling, preparing inputs, facilitating discussion, and driving decisions — partnering with Brand Management, Brand Marketing, Finance, Acquisition, and Digital Product to build consensus across the business. Continuously evolve S&OP reporting and analytics (e.g., forecast accuracy tracking, variance analysis, promotional visibility) to improve transparency and decision-making.
• Build and implement best-in-class forecasting methodologies and ways of working for the Truly Beauty business as it transitions off manual, Excel-based planning and onto DSC’s planning tools and processes.
• Serve as the primary demand planning point of contact across the organization, maintaining communication and decision-making relationships with stakeholders at all levels — from cross-functional partners and Supply Planning through executive and board-level leadership.
• Own demand planning KPI reporting (MAPE, Bias) and drive continuous improvement of forecasting and S&OP processes, including automation of forecast consolidation, scenario planning, and reporting.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefit plans with low premium options, including medical, dental and vision coverage, along with supplemental coverage options
• Free life insurance, short term disability and long term disability
• 401(k) plan with a company match of 100% of the first 2%, and 50% of up to an additional 4% with no vesting period
• Unlimited vacation and generous sick time
• Half day Fridays year-round (subject to business needs)
• 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave
• 4 weeks of fully paid disability leave
• Free Dollar Shave Club Products
• Monthly cell phone stipend

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed