Demand Planner

About the Wellness Pet Company

The Wellness Pet Company crafts and produces premium natural pet food, treats, dental chews, and supplements. We believe that natural, premium nutrition focused on proven health outcomes is the foundation of creating mutual wellbeing for pets and their families. As a community of people, Wellies are positively obsessed with how to win for pets and their parents. We believe in the difference we make every single day, and we know that when we work collaboratively, Wellies are unstoppable -- Not only in providing the best nutrition to pets, but in building a better tomorrow for pets, their parents, and the world.

Our Team is based out of our office in Burlington, Massachusetts, where we work in-office Monday through Thursday each week, and remotely on Fridays. Team members must reside within or be willing to relocate to a commutable distance from our Burlington office.

What You’ll Accomplish

Our Demand Planners play a critical and central role in our ability to deliver products to consumers by executing the demand planning process and providing inputs to the sales and operations planning (S&OP) process for a segment of the Wellness business. You’ll work across the business with sales, marketing, and finance to drive our operational supply chain planning process.

This role reports to our Demand Planning Manager. Our Demand Planners:

• Generate statistical forecasts of future customer demand
• Develop highly accurate multi-level forecasts: channel, key customer, category, SKU, and distribution center
• Hold responsibility for the overall demand plan for specific channels, product groups, and SKUs
• Track and manage the forecast for key events, promotions, and item launches within specific channels and customers
• Partner with sales & brand to generate key inputs into the S&OP process
• Own key inputs into the S&OP process
• Support new product introduction planning process across multiple channels
• Collaborate with the broader operations team on key process improvement projects
• Routinely maintenance data inconsistencies, own historical data integrity, and collaboratively apply ‘period type’ logic to protect the integrity of baseline demand history
• Identify and report on root cause analysis for forecast variance to targets

Team Wellie is a group of people who are truly obsessed with all the best ways about winning for the consumer and the pets they love. And so, we are seeking an individual who:

• Always starts with the consumer
• Is dedicated to doing it right the first time
• Brings their best every day
• Has an “all-in” mindset
• Embraces the hard things and does them right away
• Owns their outcomes
• Gives back to their community

In addition, for this specific role, we need someone who:

• Bachelor’s degree in related discipline (preferably Business Management, Operations Management, or Supply Chain Management)
• A minimum of 3-5 years of ‘retail facing’ demand management and supply chain planning experience within consumer products manufacturing environment
• Demonstrated analytical skills, adept at using advanced Excel functions and other analytical tools
• Able to lead (without direct-line authority) the broader organization to the achievement of common goals
• Experience using ‘commercial off-the-shelf’ planning systems (demand planning, master scheduling, DRP/MRP, ERP)
• Will be based out of our corporate office in Burlington, Massachusetts four days each week on a synchronized hybrid schedule

Why Work for Wellness Pet

We care about the wellbeing of our people, their families, and their pets. We treat every Wellie to a comprehensive benefits package full of extras to support their health, pets, passions, and Professional Development. More information about our benefits can be found on our website.

The Wellness Pet Company is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We celebrate diversity and are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or veteran status.

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