Sr. Demand Planner

Location: Boulder

Our Company:

PopSockets LLC, based in Boulder, Colorado, designs, manufactures and sells innovative lifestyle products. Our flagship product, the PopSockets grip—a collapsible grip and stand that provides secure one-handed holding for any mobile device—was invented by philosophy professor David Barnett, with the first grip sold on PopSockets.com in 2014, and 165 million sold in 2019. PopSockets products embody the company's mission to create empowering, personal, and fun products.

In 2020, PopSockets was named the Best Company (of our size) to Work for in Colorado by ICC and ColoradoBiz Magazine, after being a runner up in 2019. We were also named on Built In Colorado’s list of Best Midsize Places to work in 2020.  We were Inc. 5000's second fastest growing company in the US for 2018, with a 71,424% percent of sales increase over the previous three years.

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The Role: 

The Sr. Demand Planner works cross-functionally with multiple internal and external departments to ensure an accurate demand forecast is created. The Sr. Demand Planner is responsible for leading the monthly consensus forecast meetings and is a key stakeholder in the S&OP process. They will consolidate forecasts from global regions and specific customers to create a detailed sku forecast of projected demand.

Responsibilities: 

The Sr. Demand Planner is responsible for forecasting demand for global regions and customer groups at the sku level.

• Develop monthly demand forecast for multiple sales channels into SKU level forecast.
• Coordinate with sales team members on incoming sales forecasts.
• Ensure proactive communication of forecast accuracy targets, enforce accuracy when targets are not met.
• Lead S&OP forecasting meetings.
• Support launch of new products.
• Manage forecast for end of life products
• Analyze SKU efficiency and make recommendation where appropriate.
• Integrate with Supply Planners to purchase inventory to meet demand.
• Coach, mentor, and develop direct reports.
• Ability to articulate demand strategies to Sr. Management.
• Other duties as needed.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in supply chain, operations, or business-related field or 5+ years of supply chain work experience.
• 3 – 5 years of experience in forecasting, planning, purchasing, demand/supply management, or materials management.
• 3 – 5 years of experience working with ERP or MRP, preferably Microsoft Dynamics NAV.
• Experience working with global sales organizations and contract suppliers.
• Strong analytical skills with an aptitude for data-driven decision making.
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets.
• Clear and Concise verbal and written communication
• Direct report management.

PopSockets is dedicated to the practice of equal opportunity employment. We prohibit unlawful discrimination against applicants and employees on the basis of age, race, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, military status, genetic information, color, creed, ancestry, or any other status protected by applicable federal, state or local law. This prohibition includes unlawful harassment based on any of these protected classes. Unlawful harassment includes verbal or physical conduct which has the purpose or effect of interfering with an individual’s work performance, or creating an intimidating, hostile, offensive, unsafe or otherwise non-welcoming work environment. This policy applies to all employees, including managers, supervisors, co-workers; and non-employees such as customers, clients, vendors, consultants, etc.