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    "description": "<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold\">What You’ll Do</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">The Senior Demand Planner is responsible for maximizing service levels, sales, profitability, and inventory productivity by accurately and responsively forecasting time-phased demand by Business Unit, key customer, distribution segment, product, and other attributes as needed. This person needs to apply exceptional quantitative and analytical skills, along with knowledge of retail and forecasting, to deliver actionable insights to Management and key cross-functional stakeholders including Supply Planning, Logistics, Account Support, Finance, Sales and Merchandising.</span></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold\">Specific Responsibilities</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">1. Collaborates with Sales, Merchandising and customers to develop pre-season assortment plans and demand forecasts by business unit, customer, style_color_label, by month. This includes year-over-year, side-by-side comparisons as well as progress against strategic objectives.</span></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">2. Creates and maintains demand forecasts submitted monthly to Supply Planning and Finance which extends out months into the future with a cascading level of product granularity, ultimately down to SKU for purchasing. These demand forecasts will be used for long-range supply chain network capacity planning; materials planning; volume and cost negotiations; product range rationalization and life-cycle management; inventory management and liquidation cadence; and purchasing finished goods. These demand forecasts should be aligned to given top-down guardrails and guidance.</span></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">3. Documents forecast methodology, inputs, assumptions and submission-to-submission change drivers. Provides indicators with forecast submission as to levels of demand risk, inventory risk, and confidence level.</span></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">4. Monitors and measures forecast accuracy and volatility. Diagnoses, categorizes, quantifies and summarizes root causes of inaccuracy, poor service levels, and higher-than-expected excess and obsolete inventory. Leverages the results of this analysis in future forecasting process improvement.</span></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">5. Assists in auditing and cleansing the customer sales order/demand pool by analyzing order backlogs, cancelations, supply allocation inside lead-time, and forecast and bulk order consumption. Alerts Supply Planning as to demand inaccuracy risks and suggest corrective action to the Account Support Team.</span></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">6. Provides standardized and ad-hoc analysis including but not limited to the following: Customer Point Of Sale Data; Third-party Market Research and Market Share Data; Shipments; At-once Orders; Cancelation Rates; Order Expectation Curves; Size Analysis and Curves; Customer Adoption Patterns; Price Sensitivity; New Product Launches; Life Cycle Analysis; Pareto Curves; Assortment Optimization / Diminishing Returns of Assortment Adds; Profitability; Replacement/Cannibalization; Promotions/Events; Allowance Risk Monitoring and Mitigation, Marketing Styles; Hot and Slow Seller Early Warning Indicators; Lost Demand Due to Out-of-Stocks (at retail and wholesale); Logistics Route to Customer; Measuring Specific Tests; Market, Trends; Formal Seasonal Hindsight; Seasonality Curves; Customer Fill Rates; Service Levels; Return Rates; etc.</span></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">7. Supports Vendor Managed Inventory and customer planning/merchandising activities as needed, such as, but not limited to, replenishment and allocation</span></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">8. Assists in preparing demand inputs for a Monthly Executive S&amp;OP Meeting. Attends and provides inputs into regular cross-functional meetings such as Buy Meetings, Inventory Meetings, Business Reviews, etc. Prepares to provide insight and propose actions to mitigate risks and capitalize on opportunities.</span></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">9. Collaborates cross-functionally on go-to-market preparation including aligning Buying/Stocking Strategies with Supply Planning; Customer and market distribution business planning with Sales; Product life cycle and marketing strategies with Merchandising.</span></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold\">Qualifications</span></p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Requires experience working for or selling to Amazon or similar ecommerce customer. Must be extremely strong Amazon / ecommerce business understanding and relative forecasting methodologies.</span><br></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Must have outstanding computer analytical skills working with large datasets, including advanced Excel; MS Access or other database management tools; and reporting/analysis, data mining and manipulation tools such as Tableau, Business Objects, Crystal Reports, MicroStrategy, SQL, etc. Must be able to learn new systems and tools quickly</span><br></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Requires a minimum of undergraduate degree or equivalent, preferably in the area of Supply Chain, Mathematics, Statistics, Operations Research, or other quantitative business discipline is required.</span><br></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Requires at least 3 years of experience in Demand Planning, Sales Planning, Forecasting, or other related field is required. Experience in Wholesale Customer/Account Service and/or Finance a plus. Footwear or apparel industry experience is a plus.</span><br></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Must have excellent quantitative skills including statistical and financial analysis. Apply quantitative methods both predictively and diagnostically to identify root causes and improve processes and outcomes.</span><br></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Must have a deep functional knowledge of demand planning, forecasting, integrated business planning and other related areas is required. Proven experience helping build and implement best in class practices from the start is desired.</span><br></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Needs to be passionate customer-oriented mindset with demonstrated deep sense of urgency and attention to detail is a must.</span><br></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Needs to have strong written and verbal communication skills, including both presentation to leadership and interpersonal skills. Must be able to document facts, changes, assumptions and models in an easily understood format, and present them clearly is required.</span><br></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Must listen effectively, seek opinions, anticipate issues, be prepared to challenge others but also embrace consensus.</span><br></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Must have a solid knowledge of broader Wholesale business processes and must be familiar with supply chain management, order fulfillment, inventory management as well as domestic and import logistics.</span><br></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Requires the ability to adapts to change and changing priorities. Must be able to effectively manage time, including multiple tasks/projects and consistently meeting deadlines.</span><br></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Alignment with RG Barry’s values of trust, ambition, inclusion, creativity, responsibility, and teamwork</span></li>\n</ul>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold\">Benefits</span></p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Medical</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Dental</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Vision</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Short Term Disability (100% Company Paid)</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Long Term Disability (100% Company Paid)</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Basic Life Insurance (100% Company Paid)</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Voluntary Life Insurance</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Accident</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Critical Illness</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">401(k) with Company Contributions</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Legal and Identity Theft Coverage</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Generous Team Member Discount</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Education Assistance</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Scholarships for Team Member’s Children</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">8 Paid Holidays</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">One Week of Paid Summer Vacation</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">One Week of Paid Winter Vacation</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Generous PTO</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Hybrid Work Schedule</span></li>\n</ul>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold\">The Company at a Glance</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">At RG Barry Brands, we don’t just make footwear and accessories—we design comfort and style that fits into everyday lives.</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Our purpose is to <span style=\"font-weight: bold\">create consumer-focused, digitally centric, earth-first brands that make life more comfortable.</span> With a legacy built on innovation and inclusion, we aim to change the standards for comfort and sustainability. We operate with ambition, responsibility, and creativity—always keeping our consumers at the center of what we do.</span></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">At RG Barry Brands, we believe that <span style=\"font-weight: bold\">how</span> we work is just as important as <span style=\"font-weight: bold\">what</span> we do. To that end, every role is guided by <span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Core Competencies</span>—ensuring each team member thrives personally and contributes meaningfully to our shared goals.</span></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">For more information about R.G Barry Brands, please visit our <a href=\"https://rgbarry.com/company\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">website</a>.</span></p>\n<ul></ul>",
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