Demand Planner

About This Role

Developing and enriching forecasts for make-to-stock products is the core of this role, prioritizing segments with the greatest business impact and incorporating market, customer, distributor, and commercial inputs. The Demand Planner leads regional demand review meetings and coordinates the sign-off of the rolling demand plan.

Responsibilities

• Develop and enrich forecasts for make-to-stock products, prioritizing the product and customer segments with the greatest business impact and incorporating available market, customer, distributor and commercial inputs
• Lead regional demand review meetings and coordinate sign-off of the rolling demand plan
• Identify, recommend and implement actions to improve statistical and consensus forecast accuracy and reduce forecast bias
• Serve as the primary demand-planning partner to Sales, Market Strategy, Product Management and Marketing for demand-driving events, including competitive changes, market growth, new opportunities, promotions, customer gains or losses and product transitions
• Partner directly with distributor National Distribution Account Managers (NDAMs) and participate in QBRs with key distributors to review demand trends, forecast accuracy, forecast bias, inventory signals, significant variances and corrective actions
• Maintain and cleanse demand-planning history, including documented adjustments for abnormal or non-recurring events
• Review and validate demand assumptions for new product introductions, promotions, customer gains or losses, discontinuations and other significant events
• Maintain product lifecycle inputs in the applicable planning systems and ensure the demand plan reflects current product status and transition timing
• Oversee safety stock levels for SBU-owned IDHs, ensuring all changes are reviewed, documented, and aligned with appropriate business stakeholders prior to implementation

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in supply chain, Business, Analytics, Finance, Marketing or a related discipline, or an equivalent combination of education and experience
• 5-7 years of related work experience with at least 2 years of experience in demand planning, forecasting, business analytics, supply chain planning or a related area
• Cross-functional understanding of demand planning, sales, distribution, product management, marketing, finance and supply planning
• Advanced Excel and data-analysis capability
• Experience with enterprise planning, ERP, BI and CRM tools

Nice to have:

• SAP and demand-planning system experience

Benefits

• Affordable plans for medical, dental, vision and wellbeing starting on day 1
• Paid time off including sick, vacation, holiday and volunteer time