Demand & Supply Planner

MECCA

To enable our customers to feel and look their best by offering them the world’s best line-up of beauty and skin-care brands (+ more), coupled with exceptional service.

We have over 5,000 MECCA team members across 100+ retail stores throughout Australia and New Zealand, a rapidly growing online business, two Distribution Centres, and a bustling Support Centre in the heart of Melbourne working to deliver on our purpose every single day. Our ongoing growth is fuelled by opening new stores and reaching new customers, launching new products, and harnessing the latest technology to constantly innovate and evolve our concepts, experiences, and service offerings. Whether you join MECCA in one of our Retail stores, our Support Centre or our Distribution Centre (DC), you will be an integral part of the MECCA family.

The Role You Could Play: Our Integrated Planner will own the Demand & Supply planning process within S&OP and continuous improvement across specific brand categories. Day to day you will be responsible for driving demand consensus, preparing and facilitate the demand review with both internal and external stakeholders, as well as ensuring store and distribution Centre’s (DCs) availability is best in class.

You will manage our brand delivery-in-full performance and partner with the brand team to execute and reach commercial targets, supporting efforts to lower CODB and drive efficiencies.   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 and drive commerciality for our brand partners
• 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
• Looking after the flow of stock from Brands to DC and manage the Purchase order lifecycle What You Will Bring: You will utilize your impressive inventory, analytical and planning skills and develop operational efficiencies to effectively estimate and manage forecasting demand and inventory levels for your designated Brand. We are also looking for talented individuals who live and breathe our values and do whatever it takes to embrace a positive and energetic culture.  If you are passionate about our company and the operations that support it, then this may be your next exciting opportunity. We are also looking for:
• Demand and supply planning experience in Retail / FMCG or like industry
• Advanced Excel skills
• Ability to build strong working relationships
• Analytical skills, ability to identify patterns and trends and the business implications
• Strong stakeholder management skills
• Demonstrated ability at problem solving
• ERP systems experience

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  Process Management and Ongoing Improvement

  Manage and improve organizational processes to minimize complexities and increase productivity

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  Execution and Project Management

  Plan and deliver project plans by managing people, resources, budget, and timelines, to support the organization’s goals

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  Stakeholder Engagement

  Partner with stakeholders to understand specifications, business requirements, and communicate insights

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  Collaboration

  Works with others by being open, clear in communication and listening to achieve goals

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  Creativity

  Generates multiple innovative/new/novel ideas to solve a problem

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  Numerical problem solving

  Works with numerical information and performs mathematical calculations to solve problems