Description
As a key member of the Planning team, you will manage a product portfolio and support demand-planning activities across North America.
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop and maintain short- and long-term demand forecasts across products, channels, customers, and regions.
- Analyze historical sales data, market trends, promotional activity, product changes, and business inputs to improve forecast accuracy.
- Collaborate with Sales, Marketing, Product, Finance, Supply Chain, and other cross-functional teams to incorporate business intelligence into demand plans.
- Support the S&OP process by preparing demand inputs, highlighting forecast changes, and identifying risks and opportunities.
- Identify and communicate risks and opportunities related to forecast, inventory, and supply availability.
- Support new product launches, product transitions, and end-of-life planning with timely and accurate forecasting.
- Monitor inventory and demand signals to identify potential supply constraints, out-of-stock risks, excess inventory, and other planning opportunities.
- Partner with Supply Planning and Customer Supply Chain to communicate demand changes, inventory risks, and recommended actions.
- Maintain demand-planning systems, tools, reports, data inputs, and forecasting assumptions.
- Monitor data accuracy and flag discrepancies or missing information.
- Use Excel, data-visualization tools, and AI-enabled tools to analyze forecasts, identify exceptions, and build repeatable planning-review tools.
- Maintain documentation and process guides for demand-planning workflows.
- Identify opportunities to improve forecast accuracy, planning processes, and forecasting governance.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree or higher in an analytical discipline (Supply Chain, Finance, Economics, Mathematics, Statistics, Data Science, etc.).
- Background in Demand Planning, Corporate Finance, Supply Chain, Sales Analytics, or a related field.
- Strong attention to detail and organizational skills.
- Data visualization experience (Tableau, Domo, Qlik, etc.) preferred.
- Experience in ERP and MRP systems preferred.
- Advanced Excel skills required.
- Comfortable working with large datasets and planning tools; Tableau experience is a plus.
- Comfortable using AI-enabled tools to support data analysis, forecast review, reporting, and process improvement.
- Effective written and verbal communication skills.
- Eagerness to learn and contribute in a collaborative team environment.
- Customer focused, with the ability to constructively challenge assumptions and drive sound planning decisions.
Additional Information: At Cricut, we take care of our people. Enjoy competitive Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage, a 401(k) match, generous PTO, tuition reimbursement, and a yearly lifestyle stipend to support your wellness and passions.