Senior Demand Planner, Retail - North America

Salomon • Ogden, UT

5d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Senior Demand Planner owns the North American retail demand plan, ensuring forecasts align with store demand, inventory targets, and financial goals. The role connects merchandising, retail, and global planning teams to create a unified view of demand across stores and channels. It also leads the allocation function and manages a team responsible for in-season inventory execution. Success in the role involves linking forecasting and allocation to improve in-stock performance, optimize inventory, and support retail growth.

The position is based in Ogden, Utah, and follows a hybrid work schedule. It reports to the Director of Planning and is part of the Merchandising & Planning business area. The role includes 20% travel.

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, directly or indirectly.
• Strong understanding of retail KPIs, including sell-through, weeks of supply, and stock-to-sales.
• Advanced Excel skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to turn insights into action.
• Excellent communication and influencing skills across cross-functional teams.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-growing, evolving retail environment.
• Ability to travel 20%.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with planning or allocation systems is strongly preferred.
• Experience in apparel, footwear, outdoor, or retail-driven consumer goods is preferred.
• Experience operating in a global or matrixed environment is a plus.

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 with store performance, inventory targets, and commercial plans.
• Translate forecasts 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 and inventory risk.
• Monitor sell-through, inventory levels, and stock productivity across stores and channels.
• Partner with merchandising to influence assortment productivity and lifecycle decisions, and align the demand plan with in-season trading strategies.
• Lead demand alignment across merchandising, retail, finance, and supply chain teams; serve as the key contact between retail teams and global planning functions.
• Influence decisions to align demand, inventory, and financial outcomes, and drive clarity and accountability 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; maintain in-stock positioning while minimizing excess and fragmentation.
• Guide the allocation team in responding to business trends and optimizing product flow to stores; set allocation priorities aligned with the demand plan and business objectives.
• Improve forecasting, allocation, and retail planning processes; partner on reporting, tools, and dashboards, and standardize ways of working across demand planning and allocation.
• Own KPIs including forecast accuracy, inventory targets and turns, store in-stock rates and inventory productivity, SKU productivity, revenue and sell-through performance, and allocation effectiveness.

Benefits

• Hybrid work schedule.
• Generous paid time off policy.
• 15 paid annual holidays and 2 floating holidays (the posting also separately states 3 floating holidays).
• Half-day Fridays for part of the year (the posting gives differing durations of 5 and 6 months).
• Employee discount on Salomon products and sister brands Arc’teryx, Armada, Atomic, and Wilson.
• “Powder Bell” powder days throughout the winter season.
• Healthy Lifestyle Benefit to support well-being and an 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