Who We Are: At Huda Beauty, our Mission is to create a world of beauty where everyone is celebrated, so that we can inspire you to find your magic! Launched by award-winning beauty powerhouse Huda Kattan in 2013, Huda Beauty is one of the world’s fastest growing beauty and media brands. As a company, we are fueled by purpose and not profit, this allows us to approach things differently so that we can create products, content, and a community like no other. A lot has changed since our launch in 2013, but something that will forever remain at the core of Huda Beauty is our focus on Kaizen, breaking boundaries and our unwavering passion for kindness!
Summary: Huda Beauty is looking for Planning Manager to support the Huda Beauty Ecommerce team, with responsibilities including, but not limited to sales forecasts, inventory management, newness buying/order placement amp; performance/ad hoc reporting for business stakeholders.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- • Responsible for yearly, monthly, weekly and daily sales and volume amp; revenue forecast, considering market and business trends.
- • Manage daily and weekly sales reporting for the business, sharing performance against internal + forecast/expectation.
- • Tracking forecasts submitted/outstanding against deadlines for launches.
- • Monthly consolidation of sales reports for Samp;OP prep
- • Lead monthly ordering process for the respective business, prepare for Demand Review Cycle working closely with Global Planning team, Supply Chain amp; New Product Development team.
- • Collecting and consolidating newness forecasts.
- • Tracking product life cycle, forecasts submitted. Monthly refresh of assortment updates/discontinued products.
- • Working closely with team to pre-empt out-of-stock skus / back in stock ETAs on a weekly basis.
- • Review and make recommendations on ad-hoc inventory requests (inter business amp; inter warehouse)
- • Tracking, troubleshooting, and following up on ERP Inventory issues and projects as needed.
- • Set promotion and sales recommendation plans according to stock levels and budget
- • Ensure that the marketing calendar of activations align with promos and inventory levels
- • Identify GWP and sampling options based on inventory availability, budget, and set corresponding sales strategy
- • Develop and coordinate virtual bundle ideas (SKUS, Pricing, sales mechanism, etc.)
- • Manage Inventory related Order Issues, working closely with Warehouses and Customer Service