Our goal is to be the world’s most loved beauty destination. As we continue to source and offer the best and most exciting curation of global beauty, we need to ensure that every single customer can experience the MECCA magic, whether it in store or online.
To ensure that we deliver this to our amazing customers, we are embarking on a 3-year Supply Chain transformation and are looking for our next Demand Planner to be a part of driving a world-class demand function that connects our brands to their sales targets, and our customers to their products of choice!
The Role You Could Play:
- The Demand Planner will own the demand planning process within S&OP and continuous improvement across specific brand categories.
- The Demand Planner will also drive demand consensus, prepare and facilitate the demand review with both internal and external stakeholders.
In this role you will also be responsible for:
Ensuring data accuracy in both historical data (cleansing) and new data setup – one touch, single source of truth Continuously improving processes and forecast accuracy in alignment with business initiatives to meet MECCA’s customer availability goal Reviewing forecast consumption weekly to identify and address abnormal or trending demand Managing the system forecast performance, adjusting forecast methods and proactively collaborating on inventory policy adjustment with the supply operations team Collaborating with store operations, merchandise, digital, marketing and supply chain functions in a category management structure to generate a consensus forecast Collaborating with internal brand teams on forecast creation for new items and ranges, including cannibalization strategies and ranging levels Partner with supply planner and freight coordinator on demand assumptions to assist with a robust supply plan
What You Will Bring:
There is no doubt that extensive demand planning, ideally within the retail or FMCG industry, and a commercial mindset are essential to perform this role.
In addition, our ideal candidate will be a master relationship-builder and be able to demonstrate the following:
- Strong experience as a change agent and driving transformation
- Highly analytical with the ability to have a holistic view
- Strong stakeholder management skills
- Ability problem-solving skills and a game-changing attitude.
- Tertiary qualifications in Supply Chain or a related discipline desirable
Your Life At MECCA: Whilst we are singularly focused on our #CustomerFirst mantra, we know that wouldn’t be possible without an incredible team that is guided by our MECCA values and motivated each and every day to be solutions focused, innovative, collaborative and adaptable, and have a bit of fun along the way!
Some of our other team member benefits include:
- Professional development programs and first-class digitized learning offering
- Health and well-being initiatives
- Reward and recognition programs
- Access to bonus and incentive programs
- Quarterly product allowance
- Unlimited 40% discount
There are also so many other ways in which you’ll be made to feel part of the MECCA story as we love to celebrate, surprise and delight our team along the way.
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