DESCRIPTION Ring is seeking a Retail Planning Manager to join our North American Sales Operations team. This role is responsible for developing high-quality demand and shipment plans that incorporate historical data, business insight, and cross-functional inputs. This role is ideal for someone who has experience in a combination of retail sales planning, sales forecasting, and analytical reporting.
About Ring
Since its founding in 2013, Ring has been on a mission to make neighborhoods safer. From the first-ever video doorbell, to the award-winning DIY Ring Alarm system, Ring's smart home security product line, as well as the Neighbors app, offer users affordable whole-home and neighborhood security. At Ring, we are committed to making home and neighborhood security accessible and effective for everyone -- while working hard to bring communities together. Ring is an Amazon company. For more information, visit With Ring, you're always home.
Key job responsibilities
Utilize financial targets, sales data, promotional calendar, and strong analytics to develop item-level shipment forecasts for multiple time horizons, products, channels, and markets
Regularly evaluate forecast vs. actuals to enable dynamic adjustment, inform business insights, and drive corrective action
Lead regular inventory planning calls with retailer counterparts to ensure inventory levels are optimal to meet demand
Standardize and analyze raw data from ERP and external systems to determine weekly inventory needs, align inventory counts and check data integrity
Partner with Supply Chain Leads to consolidate global demand and inventory for Ring device products
Participate in regular S&OP process for incorporating input from various teams on factors driving demand
Support new product forecasts, informing initial launch inventory strategy, and optimizing inventory flow and locations to support the delivery of finished goods to the customer
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Hawthorne, CA, USA | Minneapolis, MN, USA BASIC QUALIFICATIONS - 4+ years of experience in planning (ideally with CPG or Retail company)
- Experience with ERP, WMS, EPM, and sales data systems (Tableau Dashboards preferred)
- Advanced Excel skills
- Proven ability to apply retail math, planning and forecasting processes, and financial metrics to drive business results
- Strong business acumen and analytical skill set, including the ability to recognize trends and patterns within a large and complex data set
