Demand Planner, Home Office

Princess Auto is a Canadian based multi-channel retailer with a global vision. We serve the home, shop, and industrial markets by providing a unique blend of quality products, services, and value based solutions to our customers through an outstanding shopping experience.

With our Home Office located in Winnipeg, Manitoba, our team is over **3000** strong We operate **49** Retail Stores from coast to coast and support our stores through **3 **distribution centres.

**Our strength is in our people. In fact, we call our employees “Team Members”, and our managers “Leaders”. We all work together towards a common goal: to make Princess Auto a great place to work and shop.**

**Overview of the Position**

Reporting to the Senior Leader of Demand Planning, Demand Planners are responsible for establishing, reviewing, and revising product forecasts for their own subset of Princess Auto’s unique assortment. These forecasts are maintained at a store and item level for a continuous one (1) year horizon. The forecasts are integral for purchasing inventory, replenishing inventory to stores, as well as supporting other teams at Princess Auto with items such as labour or equipment management.

Forecasting is done through two distinct lenses to quantify, separately, customer demand for promotional product and for regular sales product:

- Forecasting promotional demand is a cross-functional process where the Demand Planner works with the Merchandising, Marketing, and Replenishment Teams to predict demand, mitigate constraints or risk, and implement the promotional plan within Princess Auto’s ERP system. Regular discussions are required to review past event performance and revise forecasts or plans to improve on future forecasts.
- Forecasting regular demand is a more independent process of reviewing sales history, trends, and alerts within Princess Auto’s ERP system as well as through the analytics of additional reporting to predict sales volumes outside of Princess Auto’s promotional events. Coordination with the Replenishment and Merchandising teams is still required, particularly for the planning of new-item introductions and product discontinuations.

**To be successful in this role, you will need to**:

- Have post-secondary education in a related field, and/or a minimum of two (2) years experience in an inventory or demand planning role.
- Be highly proficient in the use of Microsoft Office, in particular with Excel
- Be detail-oriented and analytical, with good facilitation and negotiation skill

**What our unique and fun world can offer you**:
The retail world is increasingly competitive, and “standing out from the crowd” remains an ongoing challenge. At Princess Auto, we strive to be unique... in our product selection, our Team Members and in our Leadership. We share information. We value opinions and collaboration from all our people across the company, regardless of position or scope of responsibility and work as a collective team in a supportive environment. We strive to provide Royal Service, our high standard of serving not just our customers, but each other, and it is a philosophy we embrace and demonstrate every day. In addition, our Team Members receive:

- Competitive Compensation
- Company-funded, comprehensive benefits package
- Long-term Disability coverage
- Annual Profit Sharing Plan
- Deferred Profit Sharing Plan
- Company Pension Plan
- Group RRSP
- Maternity Leave top-up plan
- Discount at our retail stores
- Free parking
- Training and professional development opportunities
- Opportunities for advancement and relocation
- Paid Personal Days

**Accessibility**

Princess Auto Ltd. will consult with all applicants requesting accommodation during the recruitment process to ensure that the accommodation provided takes into account the applicant’s individual accessibility needs.