Senior Demand Planner, Retail - North America

Salomon • Ogden, UT

6d • Hybrid

About The Position

This role owns the retail demand plan for North America, ensuring forecasts align with store demand, inventory targets, and financial goals. The Senior Demand Planner connects merchandising, retail, and global planning teams to drive a clear, unified view of demand across stores and channels. In addition to planning ownership, this role leads the allocation function, managing a team responsible for in-season inventory execution. Success comes from linking strong forecasting with effective allocation to drive in-stock performance, optimize inventory, and support retail growth.

Requirements

• 5–8+ years of experience in demand planning, merchandise planning, or retail planning
• Proven experience linking demand planning with allocation and in-store execution
• Prior experience managing or mentoring team members (direct or indirect)
• Strong understanding of retail KPIs (sell-through, weeks of supply, stock-to-sales)
• Advanced Excel skills; experience with planning/allocation systems strongly preferred
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with ability to turn insights into action
• Excellent communication and influencing skills across cross-functional teams
• Experience in apparel, footwear, outdoor, or retail-driven consumer goods preferred
• Experience operating in a global or matrixed environment is a plus
• Ability to thrive in a fast-growing, evolving retail environment

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end retail demand plan at model, color, size, and monthly levels across stores
• Develop and maintain a consensus-based forecast aligned to store performance, inventory targets, and commercial plans
• Translate forecast into actionable inputs for open-to-buy and supply planning
• Incorporate store-level trends, regional performance, and product lifecycle into forecasting decisions
• Analyze and challenge assumptions to balance growth opportunities with inventory risk
• Drive retail performance through strong alignment of forecast, inventory, and store demand
• Monitor sell-through, inventory levels, and stock productivity across stores and channels
• Partner with merchandising to influence assortment productivity and lifecycle decisions
• Ensure alignment between demand plan and in-season trading strategies
• Lead demand alignment across merchandising, retail, finance, and supply chain teams
• Serve as the key point of contact between retail teams and global planning functions
• Influence decision-making to align demand, inventory, and financial outcomes
• Drive clarity and accountability across teams through a single, aligned demand plan
• Lead and develop a team of allocators responsible for store-level inventory execution
• Oversee initial allocations, replenishment strategies, and in-season inventory balancing
• Ensure consistent in-stock positioning while minimizing excess and fragmentation
• Guide the team in reacting to business trends and optimizing product flow to stores
• Set allocation priorities aligned with demand plan and business objectives
• Drive improvements in forecasting, allocation, and retail planning processes
• Partner on development of reporting, tools, and dashboards to support scalability
• Standardize ways of working across demand planning and allocation functions

Benefits

• Hybrid work schedule
• A generous PTO policy
• 15 paid annual holidays
• 3 floating holidays
• Half-day Fridays for 5 months of the year
• An exceptional employee discount on all our products and sister brands (Arc’teryx, Armada, Atomic, Wilson)
• “Powder Bell” powder days throughout the winter season
• Healthy Lifestyle Benefit designed to support your well-being and active lifestyle
• Opportunities to engage in the community and with industry partners

What This Job Offers

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