Demand Planner

We are currently searching for a Demand Planner to lead KREWE’s enterprise demand and inventory planning strategy across Retail, E-commerce, and Wholesale, driving forecast accuracy, inventory productivity, and cross-functional alignment to optimize business performance and support scalable growth.

This role is based in our New Orleans Headquarters 5 days a week.

Key Responsibilities:

• Partner on OTB across all channels, managing WOS, inventory turn, ATS, receipt flow, and inventory investment against sales and financial targets.
• Translate demand signals and in-season performance across Retail, E-commerce, and Wholesale into actionable inventory plans, allocation, replenishment, and receipt recommendations.
• Create and manage top-down and bottom-up finished goods forecasts, ensuring alignment between financial plans, demand expectations, and inventory needs.
• Own forecast accuracy, regularly analyzing variance to plan, identifying the drivers of forecast error, and continuously improving forecasting assumptions and methodology.
• Partner on monthly SKU-level demand forecasts, incorporating selling trends, product lifecycle, channel needs, inventory position, and future business initiatives.
• Play an active role in the monthly S&OP and hindsight processes, providing the inventory and demand analysis needed to align Planning, Manufacturing, Operations, and Finance around risks, opportunities, and actions.
• Lead forecasting and analysis for new product introductions, developing initial demand assumptions and continuously adjusting forecasts as selling data becomes available.
• Drive inventory efficiency by establishing inventory targets, balancing demand and supply, managing product carryover decisions, and identifying opportunities to improve inventory flow and lead times.
• Proactively identify inventory risks and opportunities, partnering with Operations, Supply Chain, and Manufacturing to close inventory gaps, mitigate overstock, and protect sales.
• Facilitate long-range demand and inventory forecasting to provide Manufacturing and Supply Chain with greater visibility into future capacity and inventory requirements.
• Consolidate and analyze Retail, E-commerce, Wholesale, and operational data to create a holistic view of demand and inventory performance across KREWE.
• Build, maintain, and publish reporting that clearly communicates business performance, inventory health, forecast accuracy, risks, and opportunities.
• Turn analysis into action, using selling results and inventory performance to influence future buys, receipt timing, inventory positioning, and demand forecasts.
• Provide ad hoc analysis and scenario planning to support business decisions and changing needs as KREWE continues to grow.

Requirements:

• 5+ years of professional experience in merchandise planning, demand forecasting, inventory planning, supply chain, analytics, or a related field within fashion, eyewear, accessories, or specialty retail.
• Strong command of retail math and planning fundamentals, including forecasting, OTB, WOS, inventory turn, sell-through, receipt flow, and inventory productivity.
• Advanced Excel skills required; hands-on experience with NetSuite and Shopify strongly preferred.
• Comfortable building processes from scratch and operating in an environment where the tools, reporting, and ways of working are continuing to evolve.
• Able to move easily between the big picture and the details, connecting the financial plan and broader business strategy all the way down to SKU-level performance and inventory decisions.
• Highly analytical with a critical eye for data and the ability to identify what matters, understand the story behind the numbers, and translate analysis into clear recommendations and actions.
• Strong business partner who can effectively engage, influence, and build credibility with partners and leaders at all levels of the organization.
• Confident in creating and delivering clear, impactful presentations and communicating complex information to cross-functional audiences.
• Highly organized and effective at managing multiple competing priorities, with the judgment to continually prioritize based on the needs of the business.
• Proactive, assertive, and highly self-directed, with a strong sense of ownership and consistent follow-through with leaders, colleagues, and cross-functional partners.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to communicate clearly, concisely, and appropriately across different audiences.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment and willing to roll up their sleeves to solve problems while also helping build more scalable processes for the future.

Benefits and Perks:

• Competitive wage
• Group health plans: health, vision and dental insurance
• Welfare benefits: life, ad&d, supplemental voluntary coverage 
• FSA Plan & HSA Program 
• 401(K) Investment Options
• Adoption Assistance, EAP, Commuter Benefits
• Paid Parental Leave 
• Quarterly Cultural Spend
• Ongoing Training and Development, an Educational Allowance
• 10 paid holidays and Paid Time Off accrual
• KREWE employee quarterly frame allowance (of course!)

Diversity and Inclusion: 

KREWE believes in providing an inclusive workplace where all individuals have the opportunity to succeed. We are proud to provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants without discrimination or retaliation because of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, pregnancy or any other protected characteristic as established by applicable local, state, or federal law.