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Red Wing Shoe Company is based in Red Wing, Minnesota, just 40 minutes from St. Paul, where our corporate office sits along the Mississippi River in downtown Red Wing.  We are a global company with 2300 employees around the world, but we maintain a close-knit family atmosphere that comes with being a privately-held company. We’re rich in history and tradition, but innovation drives us to deliver best-in-class product solutions and highly rated customer experiences.  Focus on our employees and company culture results in meaningful employee engagement across the organization. Our Guiding Behaviors of Living our Values, Honoring our Brands, Inspiring our People, Centering on our Customers, and Preserving the long term success and legacy of our Company are the foundation on which we build our future.

The Demand Planner is responsible for creating and maintaining accurate demand plans for our global work business. They create operational forecasts by incorporating historical trends and forecast information gathered from sales, marketing, finance, new product development, customers, and other sources. They participate in our Sales Inventory and Operations Planning process, ensuring alignment of the forecast with sales leadership, Finance and Supply Chain.  The Demand Planner also provides input to the Supply Chain in developing inventory strategies for existing, new, and discontinued products.

Qualified candidates will have a Bachelor’s degree (B.A./B.S.) from four-year college or university and two to five years of demand planning or forecasting; or equivalent combination of education and experience.   Forecasting certification preferred.

Candidates will have strong analytical aptitude and demonstrated analytical skills; Demonstrated business acumen; Knowledge of forecasting methodology; Critical thinking, problem solving, and prioritization skills; Ability to openly communicate with people at all levels of the organization, including strong written and oral communication skills; Aptitude to lead via influence with demonstrated interpersonal and collaboration skills; Results orientation with a bias toward action; Ability spot opportunities to make a contribution or improvement and act on it appropriately; Tactical execution including managing competing priorities effectively, task and time management; Proficient with Microsoft Office suite, specifically MS PowerPoint, MS Word, MS Excel; Knowledge of and ability to use technology that enables effective demand planning (Logility, JDA, SAP, etc.)

We look for team members who have a professional and mature disposition, unquestioned integrity, moral character, and ethical values; one whom the organization can trust without reservation. The successful candidate will have attitudes and behaviors that promote management’s belief in the value of employees to the organization and uphold Red Wing’s core values of Respect, Integrity, Excellence and Community.

Red Wing Shoe Company will not be using recruitment agencies or firms to fill this position and we will not accept unsolicited resumes or candidate information. No agency calls please.

Red Wing Shoe Company, Inc. is a drug-free workplace.

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The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)