Demand Planner

TreeHouse Foods • WI Works from Home, WI

1d • $76,200 - $114,200 • Hybrid

About The Position

The Demand Planner develops, maintains, and improves base and consensus demand forecasts in partnership with Sales, Category Management, Finance, Supply Planning, and Operations. This role translates forecast inputs, changes, risks, and opportunities into clear business insights that support decision-making and planning alignment. The Demand Planner serves as a forecasting methodology expert, promotes consistent planning practices and governance, and helps advance overall planning maturity across the organization.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Business, Analytics, or related field (or equivalent experience)
• 2–4+ years in demand planning, forecasting, analytics, or market analysis
• Strong analytical, statistical, and problem-solving skills
• Strong communication and stakeholder management capabilities

Nice To Haves

• IBP / S&OP experience strongly preferred
• Experience in FMCG / Consumer Products preferred
• Experience with Advanced Planning Systems (e.g., Blue Yonder, o9, Kinaxis)
• Exposure to cross-functional supply chain or financial planning processes preferred

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain demand forecasts using sales, shipment, depletion, consumption, and customer demand data.
• Analyze forecast accuracy, bias, value-add, volatility, and stability; diagnose forecast variances and implement corrective actions.
• Manage DFUs, forecast exceptions, and product lifecycle events, including new product introductions, phase-ins, phase-outs, and discontinuations.
• Challenge forecast assumptions using data and analytics to ensure accurate, unbiased demand plans and prioritize high-impact opportunities through exception-based planning.
• Lead and facilitate IBP demand consensus discussions and align Sales, Category Management, Finance, and Supply Chain to a single forecast.
• Document forecast assumptions, decisions, risks, and opportunities, including volume and revenue impacts.
• Provide analysis, recommendations, and insights to support business and planning decisions.
• Evaluate the impact of planning assumptions on supply execution and escalate potential risks as needed.
• Collaborate with Supply Planning to communicate forecast changes and downstream business impacts.
• Incorporate promotions, events, product launches, discontinuations, market trends, and customer ordering patterns into forecast assumptions.
• Utilize external market data and competitive intelligence to inform forecasts and assess market dynamics.
• Translate commercial strategies into quantified demand impacts and support scenario planning for risks and opportunities.
• Leverage planning, reporting, and business intelligence tools to generate forecasts, analyses, and actionable insights.
• Identify, investigate, and escalate data quality issues that negatively impact forecast performance.
• Build strong cross-functional relationships, align stakeholders on demand drivers and tradeoffs, and translate complex data into clear, actionable business insights.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and benefits program with no waiting period
• 401(k) program with 5% employer match and 100% vesting as soon as you enroll
• Comprehensive paid time off opportunities, including immediate access to four weeks of vacation, five sick days, parental leave and 11 company holidays (including two floating holidays)
• Paid training, tuition reimbursement and a robust educational platform – DevelopU – with more than 10,000 free courses
• Wellness and employee assistance programs

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level