Jewellery Demand Planning Manager

In this challenging and exciting job, you will be responsible for leading the demand planning for jewellery (first contributor to the turnover of the Maison), in a context of booming sales and accelerated supply chain transformation.

Your mission:

• Analyze the sales; define and orchestrate the sales forecast,working closelywith the international marketing, to steer our ambition for jewellery and drive the production needs.

• Supervise the demand planning team (5 people), with the objective to deliver the best service to our interlocutors (markets, international marketing, product development, manufactures, upstream and distribution planning teams…).

• Manage the novelty launches,from the first brief up to the commercial launch: sizing of the launch quantities and the replenishment in collaboration with the markets, production follow-up with the manufacturing and the product development teams, and distribution to the markets.

• Impulse and drive the transformation of our processes and planning tools, to make the best of our data, improve connectivity and transparence with the other teams, and globally gain in flexibility, speed and reactivity.

Team management:

You will manage a team of 5 demand planners. Among your responsibilities, you will:

• Make sure that your organization is appropriate and robust
• Develop the skills of your team
• Establish training and integration plans
• Define and monitor objectives
• Master current and new tools, and coach your team to use them.

Transformation program:

The Cartier supply chain team has initiated a major transformation program, which encompasses the way we do sales forecasts, and how we use them.

As Jewellery Demand Planning Manager, you will be a major contributor to this transformation program, by:

• Challenging the statu quo, and rethinking the demand planning process
• Working on various time horizons, depending on the objective of the forecast
• Finding ways to accelerate the forecast definition.

This transformation program is supported by our team of data scientists. Therefore you will work closely with them.

Your profile

• Master’s degree in engineering
• In-depth knowledge of the supply chain domain
• Strong analytical and mathematical skills
• Rigorous reasoning and accuracy with numbers
• High level of proficiency in Excel, Power BI and if possible Anaplan
• Knowledge of SAP
• Strong interpersonal skills: ability to find consensus with various interlocutors
• High level of verbal and written communication: ability to explain clearly and simply complex topics
• Proficiency in PowerPoint
• At least 3 years of management experience (team or project)
• Complete fluency in French and English