
Sr. Professional Demand Planning (WHS)
- Amsterdam, Noord-Holland
- Vast
- Voltijds
- Build bottom-up channel merchandise financial plans by product category in partnership with sales and merchandising, ensuring alignment with broader regional goals.
- Define seasonal line architecture targets for channel and account level assortments that drive productivity and optimize growth aligned to regional and category strategy.
- Work closely with Channel Merchandising to gain strong command of seasonal product strategies, key product and marketing stories, and distribution segmentation to align the bottom-up plan with the channel assortment strategy.
- Run what/if scenarios to support decision-making and provide insights on potential channel performance outcomes.
- Gather and present regional hind sighting data to drive actions and support ongoing planning efforts, both for short and long term.
- Collaborate with the commercial and merchandise team to align sell-in and sell-out plans to optimize business goals.
- Execute monthly demand forecasts at the style-color level, driven by statistical forecasting and continuously manage necessary adjustments using the Blue Yonder Demand system.
- Build seasonal stock & sales plans for key partners to determine sell-in based on projected partner inventory (turn), sell-out potential and gross margins
- Utilize systematic forecast and performance data to identify opportunities and risks to the financial and strategic target at monthly and quarterly channel reviews.
- Support Sales in successful conversion of plan to bookings through the sell-in process, providing data driven insight on both sell-in strategies and sell-out performance data.
- Drive accuracy and stabilization of the demand plan over time and reconcile demand plans to customer bookings.
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Supply Chain, or a related field.
- 4+ years of experience in sales-, merch-, or demand planning or a related role.
- Experience in the apparel or footwear industry is preferred.
- Proven track record of developing and executing successful Wholesale Channel strategies.
- Understanding of channel planning, with exposure to scenario planning and long-range forecasting using financial plans & historical data.
- Ability to interpret data and assist in shaping business narratives (story telling), providing support for decision-making processes by contributing data-driven insights.
- Ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams and communicate key data findings to non-technical teams, with guidance, ensuring alignment with broader business goals
- Knowledgeable in financial concepts, such as revenue, costs, and profit margins, as well as how they relate to planning processes to drive decision making.
- Develop skills in identifying problems and working with predictive analytics tools to support basic refinement of recommendations.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to work within a team and support planning initiatives.
- Solid experience with data analysis & visualization tools for reporting and insights,
- Experience in Blue Yonder's Planning module or similar planning tools preferred.
- Location: This individual must reside within commuting distance from our Amsterdam office.
- Work Schedule: Starting in October, teammates are required to work on-site for 3 days per week. This will increase to 4 days per week beginning January 2026.
- Travel: no travel required
- No relocation provided
- Paid “UA Give Back” Volunteer Days: Work alongside your team to support initiatives in your local community.
- Under Armour Merchandise Discounts
- Health & fitness benefits, discounts and resources- We offer teammates across the country programs to promote physical activity and overall well-being.
- 38 hour working week
- Hybrid work
- 28 days holiday
- Teammate Resource groups e.g. Green Machine, Sustainability, LGBTQIA+, Women in Leading and Living, Balance for mental health and wellbeing etc.
- Human Performance Institute (Gym) on site
- Local Language course when moving from abroad
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