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We’re the creators of the iconic Koozie® Can Kooler and a leading supplier in the promotional products industry, imprinting logos on items like pens, tumblers, and calendars. Our Keep It. Give It. mission drives us to make a positive impact for our people, customers, and communities.
Why Work With Us?
Join a people-first culture at Koozie Group, where we prioritize your growth, well-being, and work-life balance with flexible schedules, comprehensive training, and great benefits like medical, dental, vision, 401(k) with employer match, generous PTO, and tuition reimbursement. Enjoy shift differentials, recognition programs, referral bonuses, and opportunities to advance while contributing to our charitable giveback initiatives.
Job Summary:
Koozie Group is a leading promotional products company that designs and sources decorated branded merchandise, primarily manufactured in Asia with extended lead times of 90–150+ days. Accuracy in demand planning directly drives inventory positioning decisions made months in advance, making this a high-impact role within our supply chain organization. This is a remote-eligible position. This position drives the monthly demand planning process (including statistical and consensus / collaborative forecasting approaches). This individual will maintain recurring updates of a "finished goods" forecast. This person is responsible for alignment across the cross-functional S&OP team, including sales, marketing, supply chain planning, customer service, distribution, and manufacturing.
Responsibilities:
- Key participant in monthly collaborative demand review as part of the S&OP process.
- Develop and maintain a monthly demand forecast for all finished goods parts using order and shipment history, sales and marketing information, market intelligence, and industry trends to inform the projected demand.
- Influence and collaborate with key partners in sales, supply planning, marketing, and finance to understand and interpret the potential impact demand drivers can have on demand and adjust the statistical forecast to reflect those impacts.
- Analyze and develop insights on data from customer point of sales data systems and internal order management systems.
- Lead continuous improvement efforts to advance the demand planning and forecasting process capabilities.
- Maintain forecast vs. actual history data by customer, product family, channel, geography, and SKU.
- Develop and maintain monthly forecast accuracy and forecast bias metrics.
Qualifications:
- Minimum 3 - 5 years’ experience in a demand planner role within an MRP/ERP environment or equivalent education, Associates or Bachelor degree preferred.
- Competency in demand planning systems (GAINS, Blue Yonder (JDA), Relex, o9 Solutions, Kinaxis etc)
- Demonstrated strengths in forecasting, new product launches and data analysis.
- Experience in forecasting for long lead time products sourced globally is strongly preferred; prior experience in promotional products, consumer goods, or branded merchandise is a plus.
- Must demonstrate a strong understanding of forecasting including the use of statistical models, ability to perform in-depth data analysis, trend analysis and the ability to map processes and weigh alternatives and individual factors to choose the best course of action.
- Strong technical background/skills with MS Office Suite, particularly Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, , and data visualization tools (e.g., Power BI).
- Demonstrate the ability to balance the needs of the organization and the needs of the customer.
- Acts with a sense of urgency.
Our customers come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds, not just because it's the right thing to do, but because it makes our company stronger. If you share our values and our enthusiasm to Keep the Good Going, you will find your way at Koozie Group.
Koozie Group is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate against any applicant or employee based on race, age, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), gender, marital status, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, mental or physical disability, religion, creed, color, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression (including transgender status), veteran status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local law. Koozie Group also prohibits harassment of applicants and employees based on any of these protected categories.
In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, Koozie Group will provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities and encourages both prospective and current employees to discuss potential accommodations with the employer