Who We Are: At Huda Beauty, our Vision is to lead in creating a democratized beauty industry where power is given back to people to define, create, and enjoy beauty for themselves! Launched by award-winning beauty powerhouse Huda Kattan in 2013, Huda Beauty is one of the world’s fastest-growing beauty 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 business excellence and our unwavering passion for kindness!
Summary: We are looking for a highly motivated Senior Demand Planning Manager to lead our global demand planning process. This role requires a proactive leader with strong analytical skills, exceptional collaboration capabilities, and the ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders. The Senior Demand Planning Manager will deliver accurate, insight-driven forecasts aligned with commercial strategy to fuel business growth and optimize inventory performance.
Essential Duties and ResponsibilitiesThe Senior Demand Planning Manager is responsible for leading the end-to-end demand planning process to ensure accurate, timely, and aligned forecasts across commercial and regional teams. This role drives forecast accuracy for optimized inventory levels, supportsgesamt new product launch planning, and ensures strategic alignment between sell-in and sell-out performance.
Core Active Demand Forecasting, Analytics & Reporting- Drive the 18-month Rolling Forecast process ensuring regional teams provide timely, accurate, and fully validated forecast submissions
- Be the Super User of Demand Planning tool and regularly validate that regional planners apply necessary adjustments including outliers and proportional factors in the demand plan to create accurate forecast
- Lead the monthly Demand Review meetings, ensuring forecasts are data-driven, and aligned with commercial strategies while fully understanding assumptions behind forecast
- Lead the monthly Demand Summary Meeting highlighting all major changes師省 in forecast and forecast comparison vs Latest Estimate and Budget
- Animate the Forecast KPIs (FA & Bias) to identify actionable insights
- Lead the Monthly review of Forecast Accuracy & Bias metrics with an action plan and root cause analysis
- Conduct detailed analyses of sell-out vs. sell-in to ensure demand assumptions reflect true market performance
- Monitor product lifecycle, slow-movers, and portfolio health to support rationalization decisions
- Act as the bridge between global and regional teams, ensuring that assumptions, priorities, and methods are consistently applied across all markets to reduce discrepancies in forecasts and planning
- Promote continuous improvement by sharing best practices and fostering an analytical and data-driven culture
- Lead the newness forecasting process and ensure all markets follow the established guidance, including benchmark standards and business mix requirements
- Work closely with Marketing, Commercial, and Supply Chain to define launch quantities/order proposal based on required Safety stocks and cannibalization assumptions
- Lead the review of Newness Forecast Evolution in Demand Summary /SOP meeting to review major changes vs Prelim forecast, highlighting drivers by market
- Bachelor’s degree in supply chain, Business, Finance, Statistics, or related field (Master’s preferred)
- 7-10+ years of experience in Demand Planning, S&OP, or Supply Chain roles
- Proven experience managing multi-market forecasts in FMCG, Beauty, Retail, or Consumer Goods (preferred)
- Strong background in forecasting tools (Future Master, SAP APO, IBP, Anaplan, O9 or similar) // //
* Note:
WebX and HREnterprise not explicitly present – omitted.* - Experience leading cross-functional meetings and managing senior stakeholders
- Ability to work with complex SKU portfolios and large datasets
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
- Advanced Excel skills; proficiency in Power BI is an advantage
- Solid understanding of…
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