Demand Planning Leader

As the Demand Planning Leader, you will help ensure a high-quality demand signal that creates customer service, optimized inventory, and informed strategic decision-making across the business. You will deliver accurate, unbiased forecasts at the customer-item-location level while also coaching partners to improve forecast quality, data integrity, and assumptions. You will report to the Demand Processes and Technology Director.

Responsibilities

• Improve statistical forecasts using enterprise forecasting systems and analytical tools.
• Conduct detailed analysis of demand trends, seasonality, customer behaviors, promotions, and macroeconomic indicators to refine forecast accuracy.
• Maintain proper forecasting parameters and master data to ensure quality system outputs.
• Monitor forecast accuracy (e.g., MAPE, WMAPE, Bias, FVA) and perform root-cause analysis to understand variance drivers.
• Partner with Sales, Marketing, and Product Management to incorporate market intelligence, customer insights, and planned business activities into the forecast.
• Facilitate regular demand discussions with partners to reconcile system-generated forecasts with human insights.
• Contribute to the evolution of the global IBP process by standardizing forecasting approaches, improving data structures, and enhancing of demand planning tools and analytics.
• Support the integration between volume and value forecasts to promote financially guided decision-making.
• Identify opportunities to simplify processes, improve forecast accuracy, and increase planning efficiency through analytics, automation, or policy refinement.
• Serve as the "first line of insight" on demand issues (e.g., volume shifts, abnormal consumption, promotions, customer changes) and communicate proactively to stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Supply Chain, Operations, Statistics, Engineering, or equivalent discipline.
• 5-10 years of experience in forecasting, demand planning, analytics, or related supply chain roles, with 3+ years in demand planning.
• APICS/ASCM certification commitment to certification required if not already held.
• Demonstrated experience with forecasting systems, ERP platforms, and analytical tools (e.g., SAP IBP, O9, Kinaxis, Anaplan, and Arkieva)
• Interpret complex data, identify trends, and communicate insights.

About us:

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