Senior Demand Planner

San Diego, CA - December 29, 2022

Job Summary
Department: Sales

Salary: $80,000 to $110,000 DOE

Company Background: Turtle Beach Corporation (corp.turtlebeach.com) is one of the world’s leading gaming accessory providers. The Company’s namesake Turtle Beach brand (www.turtlebeach.com) is known for designing high-quality, comfort-driven headsets for all gamers. Innovation, first-to-market features, a broad range of products, and top-rated customer support have made Turtle Beach a fan-favorite brand and the market leader in console gaming audio for over a decade. In 2021, Turtle Beach expanded its best-selling brand beyond headsets and successfully launched the first of its groundbreaking game controllers and gaming simulation accessories. Turtle Beach’s ROCCAT brand (www.roccat.com) combines detail-loving German innovation with a genuine passion for designing the best PC gaming products, including award-winning keyboards, mice, headsets, mousepads, and other PC accessories. Turtle Beach’s Neat Microphones brand (www.neatmic.com) creates high-quality USB and analog microphones for gamers, streamers, professionals, and students that embrace cutting-edge technology and design. Turtle Beach’s shares are traded on the Nasdaq Exchange under the symbol: HEAR.
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Summary: Business Planning with Sales is responsible for preparing business models, forecasting, and validating business assumptions. This role focuses on the overall planning and execution of business management guided by margin maximization as the ultimate goal. Statistical Baseline Forecast Modeling and Promotional Forecast Simulation are the key goals.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Perform dealer demand planning with a focus on data-driven facts including historical run rates and future channel activities. Can build and maintain sell-out and sell-in forecast on a running 12 to 24 weeks.
• Forecast demand, inventory, and multi-channel sell through.
• Generate weekly, monthly, quarterly account demand plans in partnership with sales leaders.
• Analyze product sales on a weekly basis. Find opportunities and drive CPFR conversations with retail partners and sales leaders.
• Monthly bottoms up Forecast.
• Monitors and controls P/S/I balance internally and externally to maximize sales to fill channel demand while minimizing channel & warehouse inventory & freight costs.
• Manage end to end demand planning process for assigned product categories.
• Support improvements to processes or development of new tools either individually or in collaboration with other teams and managers.
• Miscellaneous administrative tasks as needed.

Education/Experience/Skills

• Bachelor’s Degree required.
• Ideally 2-3 years in Demand Planning & CPFR experience focused on dealer demand planning is required. Experience in handling US retail partners database is preferred.
• Knowledge of supply chain end-to-end flow (factory to end-user) with a focus on front-end retail DP.
• Strong leadership to conduct internal and external meetings to finalize forecasts and plans.
• Capable of managing a large amount of data, while understanding the big picture and ability to shape detail within the larger framework.
• Must be an advanced user of MS Excel (creating formulas, pivot tables, charts, VLookup, HLookups, Indirect, Match, Index, Offset, Sumifs, Scenario modeling, Macro).
• Demonstrates strong analytical and logical thinking skills.
• Good research skills are required; tenacity to seek out answers.
• Must be able to demonstrate excellent communication skills; verbal and written and demonstrate the ability of active listening.
• Ability to work independently and to work collaboratively across departments.
• Ability to travel as needed for sales meetings and collaborative events (10%).

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The salary for this role is $80,000.00 – $110,000.00. This is the range that we in good faith anticipate relying on when setting wages for this position. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and this range is only applicable for jobs to be performed in California. This salary range may also be modified in the future.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $80,000.00 - $110,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Employee discount
• Flexible spending account
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Referral program
• Retirement plan
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Work Location: Hybrid remote in San Diego, CA 92127