Job Description

DIRECTOR & HEAD OF PLANNING

Position Summary:

Love Wellness is seeking an experienced Planner to lead sales, demand and supply planning. This person will ensure that Love Wellness delivers the optimal consumer experience by ensuring the right product quantities are in the right places at the right times. The ideal candidate will be an analytical business manager with experience working with retail partners and translating sales projections into operational demand/supply plans. Reports directly to SVP, Sales & Operations.

Key Responsibilities:

Lead sales planning across DTC, Amazon and retail/wholesale accounts

• Create short-, medium- and long-term forecasts at the SKU level for existing products and new launches, by channel. Ensure marketing plans, business strategies, category trends and promotional cadence are integrated into forecasts.
• Partner with retailers to understand and align on their forecasts (existing & newness); ensure brand priorities are reflected in retailer plans.
• Manage build orders for incremental programs (e.g., secondary placements, exclusive sets, etc.); ensure integration into sales and demand plan
• Review weekly orders to ensure coverage and minimize OOS for launches and basic business
• Make recommendations to optimize assortment and productivity overall and by channel/retailer

Own and manage the brand’s demand and supply plan

• Own demand planning including forecasting, assembly, CPFR process, clear-to-build, inventory management
• Manage end-to-end supply plan in partnership with Supply Chain: finished goods, componentry/raw materials, collateral, and supplies
• Monitor and manage inventory level/WOS at 3PL and in trade
• Optimize inventory metrics in partnership with Supply Chain across all channels/retailers: service level, OOS, fill rate. Drive continual improvement across above KPI’s
• Use data to recommend future POs and as key input into demand plan
• Review and monitor alignment between demand plan and financial estimates
• Manage phase-ins, phase-outs, discos, and returns to minimize excess and destructions

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree
• 5+ years experience in financial planning, forecasting, merchandising, supply chain, or similar
• Experience managing omnichannel businesses including DTC; subscriptions-based businesses a plus but not required
• Exceptional analytical skills; highly organized and structured
• Must be detail-oriented
• Ability to structure, analyze and manipulate data to extract insights
• In depth understanding of forecasting and supply planning; robust financial acumen
• Must be based in NYC

Core Competencies

• Quick learner who is excited to thrive in a fast-paced start-up environment
• Self starter
• Able to build collaborative relationships internally and externally
• Passionate about the health and wellness industry

ABOUT LOVE WELLNESS

https://lovewellness.com/

Love Wellness is the leading female-first wellness company focused on total body care that sets the new standard for women’s health. Established in 2016 after years of dealing with chronic health issues herself, Lauren Bosworth, Founder and CEO, is committed to creating a more open and honest self-care culture for women. Driven by community, Love Wellness is designed to help women feel informed, empowered, and ready to take full control of their health. Love Wellness offers clean, body-positive products that range from fiber supplements, probiotics and digestive enzymes that optimize gut health, to personal cleansers, suppositories and lubricants, and multivitamins that are made with women’s unique biology in mind.

We are an Equal Employment Opportunity ("EEO") Employer. It has been and will continue to be a fundamental policy of Love Wellness not to discriminate on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, gender, gender identity, pregnancy, marital status, partnership status, domestic violence victim status, sexual orientation, age, national origin, alienage or citizenship status, veteran or military status, disability, medical condition, genetic information, caregiver status, unemployment status or any other characteristic prohibited by federal, state and/or local laws. This policy applies to all aspects of employment, including hiring, promotion, demotion, compensation, training, working conditions, transfer, job assignment, benefits, layoff, and termination.