Assistant Demand Planner

Description

Haddad is a privately held family business with over 70 years of experience in the children’s wear apparel and accessories industry. Haddad is the leading children’s wear manufacturer representing the most iconic American brands in the world; Nike, Brand Jordan, Converse, Hurley and Levi’s. Our talented professionals are leaders in design, sourcing, sales and global distribution. With over 15 locations and 800 employees globally, it is no surprise that we are already the number one children’s wear company in the world.    

Overview:

The Assistant Demand Planner will assist the Demand Planning Manager and the Planning team with multiple aspects of demand planning to enhance profitability for a department. 

Key Accountabilities: 

• Assist with the reconciliation of buy plans to customer orders and be part of meetings with the Sourcing team to ensure all customer orders are placed
• Assist with development of product category goals to create seasonal buy plans that tie back to wholesale financial goals
• Assist with the consolidation of demand for the total wholesale channel and partner with Production to ensure that receipt needs for wholesale channel deliveries are consistently met
• Assist in maintaining and actualizing all levels of sales analysis
• Maintain data entry projections for replenishment styles and assist in analyze quarterly projections for replenishment styles    
• Update/maintain all sku data, including costs and all value added services and size scale by customer for replenishment    
• Assist in the management of inventory through effective historical sales analysis
• Special projects as assigned

Requirements

Required Skills/Abilities/Education:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Fashion Merchandising, Finance or related field
• Prior Internship and/or related experience in planning and analysis required
• Strong communication, presentation, and organizational skills
• Must be a strategic thinker, persuasive and collaborative
• Proficient in Microsoft Office

Consistent in-office presence is vital to the role as it is for all Haddad Brands team members, so that we all have a full appreciation, aesthetically and tactilely, of the qualities that define our brand partners’ products and set them apart from their competitors.