Director, Demand Planning

Strategy and Planning: Develop and communicate a vision and strategy for demand planning that drives alignment across the organization and provides team members direction on key objectives. Understand and incorporate supply chain industry trends and best practices. Work with other YETI’s functions to execute strategies that benefit both YETI and its partners.

Demand Planning Function: Provide leadership and direction for the demand planning organization to ensure the business is operating to meet and/or exceed goals for quality, cost-effectiveness, and customer satisfaction. Work collaboratively across related functions to eliminate non-value-added activities while continuously improving processes, systems, and people capabilities which drives operational excellence. Develop demand operation scorecards and metrics to evaluate and improve operational efficiency and effectiveness.

Financial Management: Develop cost-effective operational budgets. Audit and analyze the financial performance of the demand planning function and take actions as required. Evaluate current spending practices and identify opportunities to optimize to drive effectiveness and quality.

Leadership: Build and lead a team of highly effective, skilled and passionate professionals to collaboratively lead the global demand planning and forecasting processes. Evaluate organization design, on a regular basis, to ensure organization is structured, skilled and staffed appropriately to support a high growth, global business. Inspire and motivate staff to achieve their fullest potential while preparing for potential career advancement opportunities.

Customer Service: Collaborate effectively and build strong partnerships with internal customers to understand needs and requirements.

Bachelor's Degree in Business, Supply Chain Management, Operations, or related area required (Master's Degree preferred)

12+ years of demand planning/forecasting and commercial experience

10+ years of experience in a managerial role with budgetary responsibility required

Experience in consumer products preferred

Experience working in a complex, operations-focused organization

Expertise with supply chain advance planning systems

Expertise working in SAP enterprise resource planning (ERP) system

Strong blend of management skills and some planning tools and available technology expertise, including demand planning decision-making, integration with commercial operations, supply planning, S&OP, leadership, and financial management

Experience in designing demand planning organizations to achieve business and operational alignment

Ability to build effective teams and motivate individuals to achieve common goals

Excellent project management, organization, and prioritization skills, including the ability to manage multiple projects, priorities, and deadlines at any given time

Demonstrated critical thinking, deductive reasoning, problem solving, and analytical skills to interpret data, understand demand trends and take appropriate actions

A proven leader who is able to recruit, develop and mentor talent capable of supporting future growth and adapt to organizational change

Strong communication and relationship-building skills with all stakeholders: employees, management, suppliers, and community leaders

Demonstrated industry knowledge and ability to be proactive and creative in developing innovative approaches to current and emerging business challenges