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Macmillan is searching for a Senior Manager in Inventory Planning to enhance sales and inventory strategies, ensuring optimal product availability through data-driven insights. The role requires collaboration across teams and a blend of strategic and operational skills in a fast-paced publishing environment.
Responsibilities: The Senior Planning Manager will manage inventory levels, forecast demand for new titles, lead cross-functional meetings, monitor performance against forecasts, and prepare data-driven reports for senior leadership.
Skills: Must have advanced Excel proficiency and ideally experience with Power BI. Strong analytical, forecasting, and financial modeling capabilities are essential.
Qualifications: Preferably 5+ years of experience in inventory planning or allocation roles, with proven success in management, strong analytical skills, and effective cross-functional communication.
Location: United States
Compensation: $80000 - $130000 / Annually
Macmillan is seeking a Senior Planning Manager to join the team. This role will drive sales and inventory strategies across multiple channels, ensuring the right product is in the right place at the right time. The Senior Planning Manager will own inventory management, replenishment, and in-season allocation, using data-driven insights to optimize performance.
This position requires a highly analytical and proactive professional who can balance strategic planning with operational execution in a fast-paced environment. Strong collaboration with Editorial, Sales, and Supply Chain teams is essential to maximize profitability and improve overall productivity.
What you'll do:
- Support the Vice President of Inventory Planning in maintaining optimal inventory levels while minimizing product costs and stockouts.
- Forecast demand for new titles by analyzing historical sales data, market trends, and release schedules to optimize inventory investment.
- Lead weekly cross-functional meetings with publishers and Sales teams to review backlist performance and upcoming new releases, identifying reprint needs and risks.
- Actively participate in weekly publishing meetings by analyzing results, reporting performance, and highlighting issues and opportunities.
- Monitor sales and inventory performance against forecasts, providing regular updates to key stakeholders and adjusting strategies as needed to consistently meet or exceed business goals.
- Drive inventory optimization through strategic stock reallocations, warehouse consolidations, and end-of-life inventory management.
- Prepare and present clear, data-driven reports that highlight performance, risks, opportunities, and actionable recommendations for senior leadership.
- Serve as a proactive and agile partner in a dynamic environment, responding to ad hoc requests and driving alignment across teams to achieve shared business objectives.
What you'll bring:
- Experience: 5+ years of experience in inventory planning, allocation, or related roles, with demonstrated success at the Manager level.
- Analytical Skills: Strong forecasting, financial modeling, and inventory optimization capabilities; advanced Excel proficiency required. Power BI experience strongly preferred
- Collaboration: Excellent cross-functional communication and problem-solving skills, with the ability to balance data-driven decisions and brand priorities.
Salary range for this position is between $80,000-$130,000 depending on experience.
Macmillan Publishers is the U.S. trade company that is part of the Holtzbrinck Publishing Group, a large family-owned group of media companies headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany. Holtzbrinck Publishing Group's publishing companies include prominent imprints around the world that publish a broad range of award-winning books for children and adults in all categories and formats.
U.S. publishers include Celadon Books, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Flatiron Books, Henry Holt & Company, Macmillan Audio, Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group, The St. Martin's Publishing Group, and Tor Publishing Group. In the UK, Australia, India, and South Africa, companies in the Holtzbrinck Publishing Group publish under the Pan Macmillan name. The German publishing company, Holtzbrinck Deutsche Buchverlage, includes among its imprints S. Fischer, Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Rowohlt, and Droemer Knaur.
Macmillan is proud to be an equal opportunity employer consistently striving to foster a culture where everyone belongs. We welcome applicants of all backgrounds and identities. Qualified applicants are evaluated without regard to race, color, religion, age, ethnicity, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability status, physical ability, neurodiversity, genetic information, protected veteran status, family and economic status and background or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. We prohibit discrimination of any kind and will provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities in accordance with applicable law.
