Demand & Fulfillment Planner - 18 Months Contract

What you'll do

The Demand and Fulfillment Planner fills a vital role within the purchasing organization, working as a business partner with every member of the pod. This key role operates the Demand & Fulfillment process for a portion of the business, reports to a Demand & Fulfillment Manager, and works within a pod to deliver increasing sales, gross margin, and inventory productivity.

Strategy

• Contribute to seasonal line reviews
• Contribute to business strategy for the pod
• Organize and facilitate a consensus process within the pod to ensure alignment on the forecast and replenishment plan
• Accept feedback throughout the network and action where required
• Channel recommendations for merchandise physical flow
• Recommend inventory strategies for the pod
• SKU rationalization within store assortment plans
• Collaborate with vendors on inventory constraints and opportunities
• Reverse flow recommendations where required
• Coaching and mentoring on demand & fulfillment planning best practices within the pod
• Recommendations on how to improve systems, processes and ways of working
• Meet or exceed all measures in key performance indicators and work to ensure that measures and metrics are aligned to business intention and strategy

Demand & Fulfillment

• Set up demand and fulfillment plans & parameter assignment according to business strategy
• Manage demand and fulfillment exceptions
• Tune model parameters and demand plan weekly in-season
• Provide ongoing projections to vendors for replenishment merchandise
• Approve daily transfers and orders
• Keep current with demand and fulfillment planning best practices
• Fill gaps, crisis coverage where required

Size Scaling

• Create size scaling purchase orders including the updating of collections & the building of size curves seasonally

Purchase Order Management & Analysis

• Purchase order management
• Managing physical product flow exceptions
• Managing information flow exceptions that may inhibit physical flow
• Embrace and support the rollout of new strategies
• Ad hoc reporting as required

What you bring

• Degree and/or equivalent 2-5 years experience, with a combination of experience in retail, merchandising and cross-functional roles
• Experience with advanced forecasting and inventory replenishment toolsets preferred
• Experience & interest in retail preferred and the ability to understand the big picture
• Advanced problem-solving capability
• Advanced multitasking capability
• Intermediate level MS Suite
• Strong analytical capability and self starter
• Strong communication skills

About Us

At Marks, we want you to experience an extraordinary career in helping to lead our brand's evolution to be Canada's number one destination for industrial and casual apparel and footwear. As one of Canada's leading apparel retailers, and a valued part of the Canadian Tire family of companies, Mark's stands out for its commitment to comfort, quality and style. Mark's is a leader in product development, innovation and quality through its assortment of industrial apparel, footwear and accessories, with strong private and exclusive brands. Join us, where there's a place for you here.

Our Commitment to Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging

We are committed to fostering an environment where belonging thrives, and diversity, inclusion and equity are infused into everything we do. We believe in building an organizational culture where people are consistently treated with dignity while respecting individual religion, nationality, gender, race, age, perceived ability, spoken language, sexual orientation, and identification. We are united in our purpose of being here to help make life in Canada better.

Accommodations

We stand firm in our Core Value that inclusion is a must. We welcome and encourage candidates from equity-seeking groups such as people who identify as racialized, Indigenous, 2SLGBTQIA+, women, people with disabilities, and beyond. Should you require any accommodation in applying for this role, or throughout the interview process, please make them known when contacted and we will work with you to help meet your needs.