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Blueland

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2019

👥 B2C

🛍️ eCommerce

🧘 Wellness

B2C • eCommerce • Wellness

Blueland is a company committed to providing eco-friendly cleaning solutions, offering a wide range of reusable and sustainable household cleaning products. Their innovative offerings include starter kits, refills, hand soaps, dish and laundry detergents, toilet cleaners, and spray cleaners, all of which are designed to minimize waste by eliminating single-use plastics. Blueland is dedicated to creating a world without waste and makes it easy for consumers to make sustainable choices through their plastic-free and compostable packaging. With a mission to be environmentally responsible, their products hold certifications such as B Corp, Climate Neutral, and EPA Safer Choice, illustrating their commitment to sustainable practices.

📋 Description

• Develop and maintain SKU-level demand forecasts across DTC, retail, and marketplace channels • Build forecasts using historical demand, trends, seasonality, promotions, customer and retailer plans, marketing activity, and new product launches • Develop forecasts for new products and channels using assumptions and analogs • Identify changes in demand patterns and proactively adjust forecasts • Maintain baseline versus incremental demand views • Lead the recurring demand consensus process and align channel and cross-functional partners around a single demand forecast • Prepare materials highlighting forecast changes, assumptions, risks, opportunities, and decisions • Reconcile statistical forecasts, channel expectations, and business targets • Document forecast assumptions and decisions • Translate the agreed demand plan into inputs for supply, inventory, and financial planning • Establish and monitor demand planning KPIs, including forecast accuracy and bias • Conduct forecast-versus-actual analysis and improve forecast quality • Identify systematic forecast bias and recommend process or methodology changes • Distinguish consumer demand from inventory constraints, out-of-stocks, retailer ordering patterns, and other distortions • Develop reporting on demand trends, forecast changes, risks, and opportunities • Maintain demand forecasts and SKU/channel data in planning systems • Keep SKU attributes, product hierarchies, channel mappings, lifecycle statuses, launch dates, and planning inputs accurate • Support new SKU, customer, and channel setup • Maintain forecast versions and planning assumptions as a reliable source of truth • Improve planning tools, reporting, automation, and data quality • Partner with Supply Planning and Operations on inventory, supply requirements, and availability risks • Partner with DTC and Growth/Marketing on acquisition plans, promotions, subscriptions, campaigns, and demand drivers • Partner with Finance on budgeting and planning, revenue targets, and unit targets • Provide forecasts, assumptions, variance analysis, risks, and opportunities for monthly consensus and Stage Gate meetings • Support scenario planning and sensitivity analysis

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in demand planning, forecasting, supply chain planning, inventory planning, or a related analytical role • Experience forecasting across DTC/e-commerce, Amazon or other marketplaces, and wholesale/retail • Strong analytical skills and ability to turn complex data into clear insights and recommendations • Strong understanding of demand planning fundamentals, including forecasting methods, seasonality, promotional impacts, new product forecasting, forecast accuracy, and bias • Experience working with large SKU-level datasets and maintaining data accuracy • Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills, with ability to facilitate consensus • Comfortable operating in a fast-moving environment with changing priorities, channels, and demand signals • Proactive problem-solving approach • Experience in CPG, beauty, personal care, household products, or another high-growth consumer brand • Experience with integrated business planning or S&OP • Experience forecasting for retail customers using retailer forecasts, POS data, and purchase orders • Experience with subscription or replenishment-based DTC businesses • Experience with Amazon or other marketplace forecasting and inventory dynamics

🏖️ Benefits

• Health benefits • Stock options • Generous paid time off • Paid holidays • Paid civic engagement days • Paid parental leave • 401k (employee contribution) • Professional development stipends • Remote work reimbursements • Discounts to like-minded companies