Purpose & Overall Relevance For The OrganizationLeads the end-to-end demand planning process, ensuring strong alignment between Brand, Sales & Supply Chain to deliver a reliable and unified sales plan. Plays a critical role in enabling commercial success by balancing demand, inventory, and financial targets.
This role reports directly to the Senior Director Finance Türkiye.Key Responsibilities
- Facilitate monthly demand review process.
- Drive regular demand updates in line with the latest net sales plan.
- Drive financial kick-off with Brand and channels to start marketing seasons, providing financial and volume guidance and ensuring consistent planning during execution.
- Drive regular discussions to align KCC with Category Leads (NS, SM, VOL & buy) for mid- and long-term planning and ensure accurate reflection in IBP.
- IBP: Drive consensus plan between Sales & Marketing.
- Act as a strong business partner for the Brand Category Planning team, supporting business development and critical discussions with regional/global stakeholders.
- Lead the Operational Demand Planning (ODP) process, ensuring the integrity of RDP (rolling demand plan) upload into APO (at article and size level) across channels. Ensure alignment to IBP.
- Partner closely with Supply Chain and Local Sourcing teams, providing full visibility of the Rolling Demand Plan (RDP) to support buy, phasing, and capacity planning. Highlight risks & opportunities with a key article focus to support in-season decision-making.
- Review and challenge inventory planning assumptions to ensure optimal inventory levels supporting sales ambitions.
- Ensure standard margin controlling aligns the latest demand plan with targets.
- Drive/support cross-functional demand and buy plan alignment with SLT.
- Facilitate regular RDP, buy, and inventory review meetings.
- Ensure timely and accurate IBP submission as per deadlines.
- Leverage reporting/dashboards or support demand planning-related projects (e.g., GIM tool, IBP25, M3, inventory enhancements).
Key Relationships
- GM
- Finance Leadership
- Brand Leadership
- Demand Planning Leadership
- Country/Market Managers
- Finance Teams
- Supply Chain Teams
- Channel and Buying Teams
- Brand Teams
- Business Development Team
Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities
- Proven track record in demand planning within a large sales organization
- Strong interpersonal skills (e.g., relationship management, facilitation)
- High personal impact and strong communication skills
- Strong analytical capabilities
- Proven methodological skills (e.g., data analysis, trend forecasting)
- Strong commercial and business acumen to challenge and drive consensus between Sales & Marketing
- Proven leadership capabilities
- Fluent in written and spoken English; additional languages are a plus
Requisite Education And Experience / Minimum Qualifications
- Minimum 8-10 years of demand planning experience within a large sales organization
- Business/Finance degree from a leading school, MBA a plus
- Preferable experience in the sport or clothing industry
- Experience successfully leading, managing, and developing a team (if applicable)
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