<p>Kforce has a client located in Beaverton, Oregon who is looking for a Demand Planner 3.</p> <p>Summary: As the Lead Business Planner for Marketplace Accounts, you play a critical role in defining, shaping and meeting consumer demand. You are responsible for defining and leading multi-season sales, receipt, and inventory plans for Marketplace Accounts to serve consumer demand, while adjusting and aligning based on evolving targets. You possess a deep understanding of the marketplace, product and inventory planning with actions grounded in qualitative research, data, and insights to support your view. Using your strong financial and commercial acuity, you show good judgment in making decisions and problem solving.</p> <p>If this is you, you will serve as the merchandise financial planning Lead to Marketplace Accounts team, working cross-functionally to forecast consumer demand, plan optimal supply, and meet financial expectations. You will set tops-down plans for key business dimensions across both Gross-to-Net and Stock & Sales that balance consumer demand, partner strategies, and align with the Consumer Architecture. Your plans will inform franchise/style plans, financial forecasts, and end-to-end inventory forecasts. You'll reconcile forecasts, recap business results, and clearly depict decision impacts with cross-functional and leadership teams. You will also lead and conduct internal/external seasonal financial account meetings while providing overall context to seasonal plans.</p> <p>You will work across the broader cross-functional organization including partnering closely with both internal and external Marketplace Accounts stakeholders, Sport Business Planning, Sport AP, MPO, Finance, and others to deliver top-down financial business targets both pre-season and in-season. Your focus is to understand and share trade-off actions that ultimately drive consumer demand/* Bachelor's degree required</p> <ul> <li>5+ years of experience in retail, planning and/or product management </li><li>Strong ability to influence & work constructively with others by communicating effectively. Listens actively and contributes to advance the conversation </li><li>Outstanding written/verbal communication, analytical capabilities, and attention to detail </li><li>Ability to collate and understand relevant market data that integrates and informs the Merchandise Financial Plan; assessing risk and solving problems to deliver business results </li><li>Strong command of Retail metrics including Retail Sales, ST%, WOS, Inventories (marketplace + DC), Revenue and Margin with the ability to manipulate data for efficient outcome </li><li>In-depth knowledge of consumers, competitors, and retail trends; knowledge of sports apparel and footwear market preferred </li><li>Advanced capabilities in Excel </li></ul>