This is a 6 month contract with a hybrid work arrangement

About Us

At Upper Canada Soap , we’ve been creating innovative bath, beauty, and lifestyle products for over 55 years. With brands including Masque BAR, Vintage Cosmetic, Erase Your Face, Danielle Beauty, and Yes Studio , our products are sold globally across major retail and eCommerce partners.

Our supply chain and planning teams play a critical role in ensuring the right products are in the right place at the right time, supporting growth while maintaining operational excellence.

We’re looking for an Allocation & Demand Planning Analyst to own key planning and execution processes that connect demand signals to inventory flow and warehouse execution.

This is a highly analytical, hands-on role focused on replenishment and allocation , with the core objectives of improving customer fill rate , reducing aged inventory , and speeding up fulfillment timelines . You’ll be expected not only to run the process, but to continuously improve it, identifying what isn’t working, automating manual tasks, and freeing up time for higher-value analytical and strategic work.

This role is ideal for someone who combines strong planning fundamentals with a continuous improvement mindset and a bias for action.

Key Responsibilities

Demand Planning & Replenishment

- Own core demand planning activities including Core replenishment planning, and AS replenishment .
- Build on existing planning methodologies and tools to improve fill rate , inventory availability , and overall planning accuracy.
- Analyze sales, forecasts, inventory positions, and lead times to create executable replenishment plans.




- Identify and address drivers of aged and slow-moving inventory , adjusting planning logic where necessary.
- Partner with supply chain, commercial, and operations teams to ensure demand plans are realistic, aligned, and actionable.
- Partner with Sales to ensure we increase turns and reduce aged inventory at all locations

Allocation & Order Release

- Own allocation process and release orders to the warehouse , ensuring orders are released accurately and on time. We expect this person to manage the order well and proactively release orders understanding WH lead times.
- Reduce the time it takes to get orders to get allocated (540 to 550 status) and released to the warehouse floor (both 3PL and internal warehouses ).
- Review all open orders 2-3 weeks out to allocate accordingly and communicate any shorts or conflicts due to ETA’s and overcommits to CS / Sales Team
- Work closes with your WH colleagues (internal & external) to ensure they have forward looking visibility to the order well, in advance of releasing orders, to allow them to properly manage labour.
- Proactively identify risks to execution and resolve issues upstream, reducing last-minute escalations and “miracle” requests to the warehouse.




- Weekly Winners meetings to review all open orders - identifying issues so customer service can work with customer to make adjustments to PO’s (extension requests, qty changes)
- Define and own continuous improvement initiatives within demand planning and allocation. Identify manual, repetitive, or inefficient tasks and develop strategies to automate or simplify them.
- Suggest a new process for allocation which takes into consideration customer margin and ship dates.
- Reallocate time from transactional work to value-added analysis and strategic problem-solving .
- Act as the owner for diagnosing what isn’t working in current processes and tools, and for proposing and driving solutions.
- Collaborate cross-functionally to implement and sustain improved workflows and best practices.
- Bring data and storytelling to the forefront of your role. Improve the way we buy & allocate inventory which modernizes the organization.

Success in This Role Looks Like

- Improved customer fill rate and service levels
- Reduced aged and excess inventory
- Faster, more predictable order release cycles
- Increased process automation and reduced manual touchpoints
- Stronger alignment between planning and warehouse execution

Who You Are

- Highly analytical with a strong sense of operational urgency
- Comfortable owning end-to-end processes and being accountable for outcomes
- Naturally curious, you question why things work the way they do
- Proactive problem solver with a continuous improvement mindset
- Organized, detail-oriented, and effective in a rapid-paced environment
- Strong attention to detail
- Always looking to improve everyday responsibilities

📌 Allocation & Demand Planning Analyst -CPG/Retail -6 Month Contract (Mississauga)
🏢 Upper Canada Soap
📍 Mississauga