Analyst, Demand Planning
Job Description
Create a healthier, brighter future for pets, pet parents and people!
If you want to make a real difference, create an exciting career path, feel welcome to be your whole self and nurture your wellbeing, Petco is the place for you.
Our core values capture that spirit as we work to improve lives by doing what's right for pets, people and our planet.
- We love all pets like our own
- We're the future of the pet industry
- We're here to improve lives
- We drive outstanding results together
- We're welcome as we are
Petco is a category-defining health and wellness company focused on improving the lives of pets, pet parents and Petco partners. We are 29,000 strong and operate 1,500+ pet care centers in the U.S., Mexico and Puerto Rico, including 250+ Vetco Total Care hospitals, hundreds of preventive care clinics and eight distribution centers. We're focused on purpose-driven work, and strongly believe what's good for pets, people and our planet is good for Petco.
Essential Job Functions
The incumbent must be able to perform all of the following duties and responsibilities with or without a reasonable accommodation.
- Inventory Management - Directly accountable for maintaining in stock levels to goal by driving stock keeping unit level replenishment and allocation strategies.
- Manage ski/location baseline and promotional lift sales forecast.
- Proactively manage inventory replenishment and allocation strategies to support promotional, financial, assortment/transition, and other business goals.
- Collaborate with Merchandise Planner on promotional and secondary planning including identifying sales lift and needed inventory support.
- Drive the identification and resolution of inventory opportunities from Distribution Center (DC) to store that drives greater business profitability and exceeds customer expectations.
- Accountable for driving established operational and service goals including in-stock, inventory budget, inventory turnover, and Inventory Management Return on Investment (IMROI).
- Collaborate with merchant and merchandise planning partners to define ski entrance and exit strategies and own strategy execution.
- Perform root cause analysis through exception reporting to drive greater efficiencies and results in inventory management.
- Drive business results through cross-functional development of strategies to achieve shop/department level goals and objectives.
- Partnership - Interact professionally and effectively through strong verbal and written communication with an emphasis on company and customer interests.
- Drive and build cross-functional relationships internally and externally.
- Effectively communicate with store partners to help achieve strategic results.
- Demonstrate initiative to work independently and in cross functional teams.
- Ability to think strategically and effectively implement tactics to ensure goals are met.
- Ability to ruthlessly prioritize and multi-task under tight deadlines.
- Vendor Management - Support vendor management by partnering with Inventory Analyst in collaborative forecasting meetings with vendors, providing promotional and secondary strategy and lifts.
- Review and analyze vendor ski's to achieve inventory and financial goals. - Development and Training
- Achieve and maintain required system certifications. - Proactively identify and participate in opportunities to expand business, inventory and/or supply chain knowledge and expertise.
- Actively participate in personal development planning.
Required Skills and Qualifications
- Education (Required): four-year Bachelor's degree in Retail Management, Supply Chain, Business or a related field is required.
- An equivalent combination of education and related experience may be substituted for a bachelor's degree.
- Work Experience (Required): Proven advanced ability to use applications within Microsoft Office suite as well a very strong ability to extract and analyze data from databases and make appropriate recommendations is required.
- Two to three years of replenishment buying and/or store operations experience is required.
- Demonstrate excellent analytical, mathematical and business problem solving skills with the ability to analyze data, conduct research and solve system issues as required.
- Demonstrated well-developed communication, interpersonal, analytical and presentation skills are necessary due to the nature and level of interaction with peers and cross-functional teams.
- Ability to influence without authority.
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Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.
Petco Animal Supplies, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, protected veteran status, or any other protected classification.
The pay ranges outlined below are presented in accordance with state-specific regulations. These ranges may differ in other areas and could be subject to variation based on regulatory minimum wage requirements. Actual pay rates will depend on factors such as position, location, level of experience, and applicable state or local minimum wage laws. If the regulatory minimum wage exceeds the minimum indicated in the pay range below, the regulatory minimum wage will be the minimum rate applied.
$64,800.00 - $97,200.00/ year
For a more detailed overview of Petco Total Rewards, including health and financial benefits, 401K, incentives, and PTO -see https://careers.petco.com/us/en/key-benefits
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