Sr. Professional Demand Planning (WHS)

Join Under Armour as a Sr. Professional Demand Planning (WHS)

Values & Innovation

At Under Armour, we are committed to empowering those who strive for more. Our values—Act Sustainably, Celebrate the Wins, Fight on Together, Love Athletes, and Stand for Equality—serve as both a roadmap for our teams and the qualities expected of every teammate. Our Values define and unite us, the beliefs that are the red thread that connects everyone at Under Armour. Our values are rallying cries, reminding us why we're here, and fueling everything we do. Our pursuit of better begins with innovation and with our team's mission of being the best. With us, you get the freedom to go further—no matter your role. That means developing, delivering, and selling the state-of-the-art products and digital tools that make top performers even better.

Purpose of Role

The Sr. Professional Wholesale Channel Planning is responsible for the demand planning of Under Armour products for a designated part of the wholesale business. This role requires understanding of specific market and account dynamics to effectively build sell-in plans, using trend analysis, sell-out insights and seasonal targets. The senior professional will work with sales, product and marketing teams to ensure the account group meets quarterly sales objectives, inventory targets, and ensure GTM strategies come to life in the market.

Your Impact

• 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.

Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of